QMM communities

At QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), we work closely with local communities to understand their priorities, have transparent conversations about our operations and their impact, and support lasting benefits for the people who live around us.

Working with communities 

Our operations can have a lasting impact, and we are committed to engaging regularly with communities, in good faith and in ways that are transparent and inclusive. Some examples include: 

Listening, sharing information and responding to concerns

• Creating ways to engage: In 2025, QMM hosted more than 1,300 people to learn about our operations and share their questions and concerns. Our mobile community kiosks have also reached more than 900 people, providing information about our operations and grievance process and giving community members an opportunity to speak directly with QMM employees. 
• Connecting through community initiatives: QMM in the Community brings our community activities together under one program. Initiatives including football tournaments, tree planting, solar kit distribution, fishing support and improvements to community infrastructure have engaged more than 15,000 community members. 

Working together on environmental and cultural priorities

• Community environmental monitoring: QMM is developing a community monitoring program that brings local knowledge and observations about weather, water, aquatic life and other environmental factors into environmental monitoring and assessment. 
• Managing biodiversity and partnering on conservation: As part of its mining licence agreement, QMM committed to a biodiversity conservation program that includes protected and offset areas. These areas aim to increase natural forest cover, protect priority species and contribute to offsetting biodiversity impacted by mining. QMM works with conservation organisations to help manage these protected and offset areas, including BirdLife International and Missouri Botanical Garden, which have a long history of conservation work in Madagascar.  
• Protecting cultural heritage: QMM works with Malagasy communities, Traditional knowledge holders and anthropologists to identify and document places, practices and objects of cultural significance. Community input helps ensure cultural heritage is considered throughout project planning and implementation. At Turtle and Crocodile, for example, QMM worked with the Ampasy Traditional knowledge holders to relocate and safeguard a culturally significant burial house (Kibory). 

Supporting local and regional development

• Long-term community investment: Under a 2023 agreement with the Government of Madagascar, QMM is contributing US$4 million a year for 25 years for community development – US$100 million in total – with half allocated locally and half across the wider region. 
• Supporting reforestation: The 2023 agreement includes US$500,000 per year for reforestation. Since 2025, 2.4 million fast growing species and 270,000 fruit trees have been planted, 51 village nurseries have been established, with 9,742 beneficiaries and the participation of public schools as part of the “one student, one tree” initiative. 
• Investing in local communities: Working with partners to implement its CSR Program, since 2024, QMM has supported: 
  • 30,000+ local primary school students with school supplies 
  • 19,000+ people across the region with medical care 
  • 12,000 farmers with seed and fertiliser 
  • 1,000 fishers with fishing equipment and fish-farming training 
  • 1,600 students through tutoring classes 
  • 140 university scholarships in Fort Dauphin 
  • 200 farmers for the establishment of showcases sites in irrigated areas 
  • 2.4 million fast growing species and 270,000 fruit trees have been planted 
  • 50 young people for training, mentoring, idea competitions, and business grants as part of the Lombao program 
  • 46 students who are currently receiving 28 months of training in digital skills in partnership with SAYNA and the Regional Directorate of Technical Education  
  • the construction of a new clinic in Ampasy Nahampoana with maternity equipment 
  • the rehabilitation of Ampasy Nahampoana soccer field, Mandromondromotra Clinic and Mandromondromotra primary school 
  • the current upgrade of the lanirano water treatment plant in Fort Dauphin.