Stakeholder Participation and Advocacy Coalitions for Making Sustainable Fiji Mineral Royalty Policy
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Public Management and Policy Analysis Program, Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan, Minami Uonuma-shi, Niigata 949-7277, Japan
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Ministry of iTaukei Affairs, Development Services Division, 87 Queen Elizabeth Drive, TTF Complex, 2100 Suva, Fiji
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Sustainability 2019, 11(3), 797; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030797
Received: 26 November 2018 / Revised: 25 January 2019 / Accepted: 29 January 2019 / Published: 2 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Governance, Power and Institutions and Overall Weaknesses of the SDG System: The Public Participation and the Role of Stakeholders)
The Fiji government perceived mining as a means to accelerate economic growth because of its potential to generate great wealth for the Fijian economy. However, the environmental and social impacts associated with mining is of great concern. Mining activities have caused immense environmental degradations that affect livelihoods. One way to recompense these mining impacts is to provide a source of income to the landowners that can substitute the providence of natural resources that were damaged or completely taken away by mining activities. From the current revenue earned from mining, only land leases have been paid out to landowners and no royalty payments as yet, because there are no specific guidelines to determine the distributions. These have brought about the great need to determine the fair share of mineral royalties between the Fiji Government and the landowners in Fiji. This paper will therefore explicate the formation of coalitions based on similarities in policy beliefs, the various strategies undertaken to interact and network with each coalition in efforts to advocate core policy beliefs to obtain government’s attention for the formulation of Fiji’s Mineral Royalty Policy, based on the analytical lenses of Advocacy Coalition Framework and Issue Network Theory, at both the problem definition and agenda setting stages. Moreover, this paper also investigates the impacts of political instability in formulating Fiji’s first ever Mineral Royalty Policy.
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Keywords:
stakeholder participation; advocacy coalitions; issue networks; policy beliefs; political instability; Fiji Mineral Royalty Policy
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Chicago/Turabian StyleQiolevu, Venina S.; Lim, Seunghoo. 2019. "Stakeholder Participation and Advocacy Coalitions for Making Sustainable Fiji Mineral Royalty Policy" Sustainability 11, no. 3: 797.
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