Global Affairs Canada supported two 6-year projects on extractive sector benefit sharing across five African countries, implemented by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the WUSC-CECI consortium, respectively. The projects focused on sustainable and inclusive economic growth in communities hosting extractive industries, including local value chain development, entrepreneurship, as well as enhancing community dialogue and local governance of the extractive sector. Both projects focused on empowering women, girls, and youth.

MSA acted as a Project Monitor for the above two projects over four years, supplying the portfolio with a wide range of advisory and monitoring services in the areas of local economic development and extractive industry supply chains. This included facilitating the development of gender sensitive planning and providing analysis on a variety of the projects’ outputs.