16. Welcomes the fact
that international finance institutions have developed methods to ensure that mineral investors carry out Environmental Impact Assessment (EIAs) and Social Impact Assessment (SIAs); notes, however, that building cap
acity in developing countries to enforce these requirements remains a challenge, in view of
financial and human resource constraints; calls, therefore, on the EU to upgrade its technical assistanc
...[+++]e so as to enable developing countries to institute the practice of systematic assessment of health, social and environmental risks, with provisions for effective public participation;