Our work aims to ensure the health and wellbeing of the defined areas and population groups that constitute the host community of each of the 28 mines.

Underpinning the research is the Sustainable Development Goal commitment to leave no one behind and reach the furthest behind first. Researchers will pay particular attention to key populations – especially young women and persons with disabilities.

In each of the eight countries involved – South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Australia and Canada – a one-year baseline study is led by local research organisations.

The aim is a detailed description of what programmes and services already exist and what the gaps are, as the basis for developing intervention packages tailored to the specific needs of the host communities. SDG–HaW will lay the groundwork for Anglo-American’s efforts to achieve SDG targets (PDF).

Specifically, the consortium is tasked with delivering the first milestone:

2020:   Establish baseline and strategies at every site to achieve targets

2025:    Half way to closing gap between baseline and targets

2030:    Meet locally relevant health targets in the host communities

To achieve this first target, SDG–HaW:

1. conducts a baseline assessment of existing data to estimate progress towards the SDG health and wellbeing targets in the host countries
2. conducts a baseline assessment in the host communities including stakeholder mapping, service mapping, needs assessment and prioritisation, in relation to the SDG health and wellbeing targets
3. designs tailored interventions based on best practice evidence, to address the priority targets
4. develops monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track progress to the SDG targets during the interventions
5. develops a costed proposal to implement the proposed interventions and monitoring and evaluation programmes
6. supports research capacity development and preparation of data analysis plans