Mining governance and policy stories involving bauxite in Guinea
Since 2010, Guinea has undertaken far-reaching mining reforms focused on multilevel governance of sustainable development. A series of public policy instruments including the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and the Local Economic Development Fund (FODEL) have been deployed since 2017 in the bauxite region of Boké. However, the implementation conditions of these instruments remain problematic, as indicated by the policy stories, which reveal divergences between actors in the analysis of their foundations, operationalization, and purposes. Yet, according to the model of asymmetries, these policy stories demonstrate in their historical context that governmental actors driven by national and international pressures, despite the observed dysfunctions, progressively managed to overcome their information and legitimacy deficits in order to be able to initiate interactive governance with nongovernmental actors and the private sector, thus moving toward a process leading to a new negotiated order.