Improving mining benefits for producing countries and regions is a key interest in many resource-rich countries. The creation of local value chains is therefore a key concern of governments and development partners of BMZs raw material projects. BGR has extensive experience in supporting governments to create geoscientific knowledge and administrative structures in order to support the private sector to get engaged in raw material value chains. In this session BGR project managers from Mauritania and Namibia discussed strategies, challenges and solutions they found in collaboration with local partners in order to create local benefits from the mining sector.