The M3 Partnership Integrated Assessment Protocol (M3 IAP) tool was designed to allow mine sites to be assessed against multiple site-level standards in a single audit, supporting identification of alignment across standards, and promoting demonstration of conformity with multiple standards with greater efficiency and reduced cost.

This should be reviewed together with the IAP Description and Guidance, which includes a combined protocol for several standards.

Part of a series of outputs produced through the Mining, Minerals, and Metals Partnership (M3 Partnership) project, made possible by the ISEAL Innovations Fund with support by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. 

The M3 Partnership is a collaboration of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), ResponsibleSteel, and Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM), which aims to identify opportunities for alignment and collective action to drive improvement in social and environmental performance.