Eramet Beyond - Eramet

A positive and lasting social impact

A firm believer that economic diversification is a source of stability and local economic development, Eramet has launched a program dedicated to supporting employment opportunities that extend beyond our core activities. The Eramet Beyond for Contributive Impacts programme is designed to supplement the direct and indirect local employment already created by our activities.

As an integral part of the Act For Positive Mining roadmap, Eramet Beyond for Contributive Impacts aims to create a new dynamic that will contribute to economic, social and human development and generate more jobs.

Eramet Beyond is a powerful tool that helps local communities and regions to boost their economic development, reduce inequalities and build environmental resilience.

Based on measurable impact methods and rigorous reporting, Eramet Beyond works with local stakeholders and expert partners to create projects with long-term impact.

This programme is designed to supplement the Group’s existing community investment initiatives in the countries where it operates, particularly in relation to infrastructure.

Objective 1

Economic diversification

Acting as a catalyst to boost economic development beyond mining, through support for training and access to funding and markets.

Objective 2

Reducing inequalities

Supporting educational and study grants, promoting female empowerment and combating violence against women.

Objective 3

Environmental resilience

Supporting agroforestry and sustainable agriculture programmes (choice of crops, water and input use, etc.) to generate revenue.

Marie-Axelle Gautier
Director of Social Impact and Human Rights

Eramet Beyond is a powerful tool that enables local communities and regions boost economic diversification and local development, while helping to reduce inequalities and build environmental resilience.

Key figures concerning the programme’s objectives between now and 2026

6,000
jobs created and sustained over the long term
(in addition to Group activities)

500
young people helped and supported to obtain training leading to a secondary qualification or higher,
50% of whom will be from local communities
and 50% of whom will be girls

Our projects

Gabon

Femmes d’Avenir
(Women of the future)

Enabling 359 Gabonese women entrepreneurs to benefit from support in running their businesses, including training, mentoring and access to funding.

“Femmes d’Avenir”, launched by Eramet and Women In Africa, is a programme intended to support economic and social development and encourage female entrepreneurship on the African continent. In 2022, its initial year of operation, in Gabon, the programme helped 26 women entrepreneurs to develop their skills and networks. The programme was launched at the end of 2023 in Senegal, with the aim of enabling 615 Senegalese women entrepreneurs to receive mentoring over a 3-year period.

→ Find out more about Women in Africa

→ Read the Femmes d’Avenir press release

→ Read the press release concerning the launch of Femmes d’Avenir in Senegal

Gabon

Lire pour l’Avenir
(Reading for the Future)

Providing “off-line” access to enhanced educational content for secondary school pupils in 5 isolated communities located along the Transgabonais railway line to strengthen educational continuity.

Eramet has teamed up with the NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders) and Gabon’s Ministry of Education to provide 6,500 secondary school pupils with access to digital libraries and educational content in communities along the railway line operated by Setrag. The project also includes the distribution of 4,000 memory cards for future secondary school graduates, which can be inserted into smartphones to access content and help with revision, even in the absence of an internet connection.

→ Find out more about Bibliothèques sans Frontières

→ Find out more about Lire pour l’Avenir

Cameroon

Terre d’Ako
(Land of Ako)

Providing 80 farms from villages located near Akonolinga with access to a central purchasing centre and training in order to develop the growing of plantains.

Through the Terre d’Ako project, Eramet and its partner ClassM will provide support to plantain growers from villages near Akonolinga, an area in Cameroon where Eramet has been conducting mining exploration operations for several years. The aim of the project, which has been co-constructed with the local communities, is to develop a central purchasing centre for bananas, while providing technical assistance to growers with a view to improving yields, as well as to organising the collection, storage and distribution of their produce.

→ Find out more about ClassM

Argentina

Triple Impact

Encouraging the creation, professionalisation and growth of micro-businesses that have a threefold impact (environmental, social and financial) by supporting students and entrepreneurs in the province of Salta.

In cooperation with the Por Nuestros Niños foundation, Eramine supports micro-enterprise development programmes in the Salta region of Argentina, where Eramine is headquartered, as well as and in communities located along the roads leading to our Centenario site. By 2023, these education and training programmes in the areas of marketing, sales and administration had benefited 323 students and 66 entrepreneurs, thereby generating a fertile network of businesses with the potential to work together and bolster the region’s economy.

→ Find out more about the Por Nuestros Ninos Foundation (in Spanish only)

Gabon

Seed capital

Supporting the development of small and micro-enterprises in the 5 provinces crossed by the Transgabonais railroad through the provision of access to microfinance in partnership with 5 microfinance providers: EDG, SFE, Finam, Cofina, SODEC.

Le Fonds d’amorçage, fruit d’un partenariat entre Comilog, l’Etat Gabonais et des établissements de micro-finance, vise à développer l’entrepreneuriat en facilitant l’accès au financement des Entreprises Individuelles (EI) et des Très Petites Entreprises (TPE) situées dans 5 provinces traversées par le Transgabonais. Depuis la mise en place de ce fonds en septembre en 2022, ce sont plus de 144 projets qui ont été financés soit plus 208 emplois créés.

Gabon

Entrepreneurship training

Supporting the development of small and micro- businesses in Ndjolé, Booué, Lastourville and Owendo by enhancing the resources of associations and providing access to microfinance.

In collaboration with a partner specialised in entrepreneurship training and revenue-generating activities, Setrag offers training courses for associations and cooperatives being set up in Ndjolé, Booué, Lastourville and Franceville. These courses cover the formalities involved in setting up or registering an association, the roles of board members, accounting, as well as financial and customer management. The programme is conducted on a yearly basis and is set to run over a three-year period. Between October and December 2023, 128 people were trained and 78 jobs were supported, 72% of them held by women.

Senegal