2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Baseline  Impact Assessment  Mitigation and Benefit Enhancement  Monitoring  Intervener Comments

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Objectives  Key issues towards VEC identification -Employment and business -Integrity of traditional way of life -Individual and community well being -Infrastructure and social services -Territorial level employment and business, economic benefits  Approach -Study areas -Secondary data collection and literature review -Primary data collection (key informant interviews, participant observation) -Supplementary data collection as part of monitoring Baseline

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Approach -Criteria include direction -Qualitative vs. quantitative assessment -Individual vs. community level effects -Cumulative nature of socio-economic effects -Economic modelling Impact Assessment

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Results -Employment and business benefits -Priority to Baker Lake -Direct and indirect -Subcontractor performance -Overall positive effects on individual and community wellness associated with increased economic opportunity -Positive and negative effects of moving to a mixed economy at individual and community level -More policing may be required -IIBA benefits at community and regional level -Significant economic effects at the territorial level Impact Assessment

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Principles -Consultation -Participation -Sustainability  Mitigation and benefit enhancement measures -Employment and business opportunities (eg. preferential employment) -Education and training (eg. on the job, life skills) -Negative effects on wellness (eg. employment assistance, adaptive mitigations) -Workforce management (eg. code of conduct, rotational employment, cross cultural training) -Initiatives in support of individual and community wellness  Closure planning Mitigation

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  IIBA  Consultation –Information disclosure –Community liaison officer –Public meetings –Stakeholder meetings  Partnerships –Economic development organizations –Education authorities –Social service delivery authorities  Grievance and dispute mechanisms  Monitoring for adaptive management Implementation of Mitigation

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Operations monitoring issues -Uptake of opportunities (employment, business, education and training) -Subcontractor performance -Health and safety -Consultations -IIBA compliance Monitoring

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Collaborative monitoring issues –Individual and community wellness Employee assistance Relationship between economic growth and socio-economic status –Labour force adjustments –Access road effects –Cumulative effects  Collaborative monitoring principles –Participation of affected people –Complementarity –Efficiency Monitoring

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Collaborative monitoring mechanisms –Need a consensus to emerge on monitoring requirements, roles and responsibilities –Negotiations between KIA, GN, GC, Hamlet of Baker Lake and Cumberland with goal of collaborative approach to socio-economic monitoring –Establishment of a multi-party monitoring committee –Contracting by Cumberland of a consultant to support the monitoring –Compliance monitoring of IIBA undertakings by KIA and Cumberland Monitoring

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Collection of regional baseline data as input into regional monitoring Primarily employment and business effects  Monitoring to include participation of GN, GC and other communities as well as KIA, Cumberland and Baker Lake Need to agree on a cooperative mechanism  Monitoring to specifically address labour force adjustments in Baker Lake Human resource inventory, hiring patterns, consultations  Monitoring to specifically address socio-economic impact of access road as input into GN decision making on closure Workforce discipline, environmental effects on socio-economic parameters Government of Nunavut Comments

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Wellness strategy to be elaborated Covered under the IIBA  More detail on various elements of human resource development planning Covered under the IIBA Note: Comments related to road operations, fuel supplies, hamlet plans, emergency response planning and traditional knowledge are addressed by others Government of Nunavut Comments

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Participation of other interested parties in socio-economic monitoring Need remains to agree on a cooperative mechanism  Monitoring needs to specifically address labour force adjustments in Baker Lake Human resource inventory, hiring patterns, consultations  Life skills training and other pre employment training to be elaborated and included in socio-economic monitoring Covered under the IIBA  Monitoring to include examination of hypothesis that overall employment and income are associated with improved socio-economic status Collaborative monitoring would emphasis community wellness INAC Comments

2006 Socio-economic component CUMBERLAND RESOURCES LTD.  Employment targets over time to increase Covered under the IIBA Health Canada Comments