studies focuses on the experiences of indigenous peoples with self-developed FPIC protocols,
policies and guidelines. It points to the central role that these indigenous peoples’ defined instruments
can play in the operationalization of the FPIC principle.
Finally, the advocacy paper makes recommendations which are addressed to a number of actors
based on the findings emerging from the research. A concluding section identifies key issues around
which further dialogue and continuing engagement between mining companies, State actors, NonGovernmental Organisations (NGOs) and indigenous peoples is encouraged.
The debate on FPIC in the mining industry has reached a critical juncture. There is both a greater
need for, and corresponding willingness by, the industry to ensure that FPIC is taken seriously. It
is hoped that this research will contribute to furthering the debate so that mining companies and
indigenous peoples can establish the parameters for a common rights-based understanding upon
which the requirement for FPIC can be operationalized.
Thanks
We are grateful to the project funders for making this report possible, specifically Misereor, CAFOD,
the Network for Social Change, Oxfam Australia and Tebtebba Foundation.
We are also indebted to editorial contributions from project consortium group members, particularly
from Geoff Nettleton and Andy Whitmore, and from members of the international advisory board,
especially Brant McGee, Christina Hill, David Peerla, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Dmitry Berezhkov,
Fergus MacKay, Frank Nally, Ginger Gibson, Jeremie Gilbert, Johannes Rohr, John Arnold, Joshua
Castellino, Justin O’Brien, Kirsten Blair, Les Malezer, Leo Crippa, Marcus Colchester, Merle Alexander,
Miles Litvinoff, Mwawi Shaba, Patricia Borraz, Robert Goodland, Stuart Kirsch, Tom Griffiths, Vicky
Corpuz, Viviane Weitzner and Zherwinah Mosqueda.
The report would not have been possible without the many interviewees who gave up their time so
willingly. They include Brian Wyatt, Chief Kyungu, Elisa Canqui, Federico Herrera, John Cutfeet, Joji
Carino, Luis Vittor, Martin Rodriguez, Steve Ellis, Reinford Mwangonde, Rukka Sombolinggi, Santos
Mero, Ross McDonald, Valentina Semiashkina and Yvonne Margarula. Those to thank from the
mining industry for their openness and cooperation include Aidan Davy, Alan Tietzal, Bruce Harvey,
Chris Anderson, Claire Divver, Claire White, Craig Ford, Hugh Elliot, Ian Callow, Ian Wood, Jonathan
Fowler, Jon Samuel, Pamella Bell, Peter Hume, Tricia Wilhelm and Scott Perkins.
We also thank our team of researchers in the Philippines, Tyrone Edward Beyer and Jose Amian
Tauli.
To these people, and others we may have missed, we offer our sincere thanks.
The authors have attempted to honestly represent views of all those interviewed in the report in a
spirit of moving the debate forward in a constructive manner. Efforts were also made to incorporate
the views of all parties interviewed in the case studies. Ultimately, however, the interpretations and
views expressed are those of the authors.
Report authors, Cathal Doyle and Jill Cariño
Citations of this paper
Please use the following format when citing this paper: Cathal Doyle & Jill Cariño “Making Free,
Prior & Informed Consent a Reality, Indigenous Peoples and the Extractive Sector” (2013)
[www.piplinks.org/makingfpicareality]
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