Livelihoods

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Origins

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

Our operations are often located in remote or rural areas with limited alternative economic activities and high levels of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment.

We have a strong record of making a lasting, positive contribution to the regions in which we operate. We are building on this track record through helping to unlock long-term economic growth and resilience that improves livelihoods in host communities.

To create diversified economic opportunities that make a lasting impact to livelihoods, we are working to deliver sustainable, collaborative and inclusive ways of supporting communities, applying a partnership-focused development approach that catalyses long-term systemic change with and within our operating regions.

Livelihoods - milestones and targets

2025

Three jobs supported off site for every job on site.

2025

2030

Five jobs supported off site for every job on site.

2030

Securing livelihoods

We are ambitious in our support for host communities.

Depending on the lifecycle of our mining operations, we work to facilitate both mining and non-mining opportunities to foster long-term employment opportunities, through and beyond the life of mine.

We continue to make progress against our Group targets for livelihoods. By the end of 2024, we had supported 157,199 off-site jobs through socio-economic development programmes since the launch of our SMP in 2018.

In 2024, we supported 2.9 off-site jobs for every on-site job (2023: 2.4). We aim to support five jobs off site for every job on site by 2030.

We are on course to meet the interim target of three jobs off site for every job on site by year-end 2025.