This report discusses explores challenges the M3 Partnership faced developing a shared approach to stakeholder engagement and the extent to which the objectives of reducing duplicative or competitive communications and reducing stakeholder confusion and fatigue was achieved through the project, and outlines lessons learned.

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.