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Booklet of general plans training, including course content, program itinerary, session plan, list of resource persons, and list of participants.

The module provides an overview of Asia Pacific Knowledge Hub for Extractive Industries Training Course. The module explaines how the course of Batch 2 is organized, along with a brief introduction on the objectives of the each session. The course focuses on five issues in extractive industries including: socio-environmental impacts; managing revenues; getting a good deal and fiscal regime; the case of EITI; coalition for reform. 

The position of the local leader at the hart of risk-taking business. The lucrativeness of exploitation from natural resources in extractive industries easily drives government at any level to take shortsighted or narrow-minded acts.Local leaders need to ensure that the extraction make the outmost benefit for the local.

The extractive industries raise issues of governance because they have typically been large scale, hi-tech enterprises that involve quite a few people. This working paper argued focus of study on governancedue to capacity to reveal the elitist or potentially secretive nature of its works as well as to uncover the link between the domestic and the global scales of governance.

This working paper agued for the “Knowledge-based governance”, the transformative capacity of knowledge to enhance collective advantages of people and country of ASEAN community. The knowledge-based character would direct the people’s trajectory toward sustainable development, as sustainability has been set as the guiding principle in governing the region.  

In regarding to the changing in the way to govern in mostly ASEAN countries, the policy brief focuses into question: how can local leader exploit the opportunities in the changing regional situation to take part in ensuring that the richness of natural resources leads to common prosperity?