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Ainsi, le présent de module de formation sur l’entrepreneuriat en contexte des exploitations minières artisanales et à petite échelle est élaboré et mis en place par le service des Investissements, des formations et enseignements de AGC pour répondre au besoin exprimé par les artisans miniers.

En un programa académico de 48 horas virtuales, divididas en ocho (8) módulos, se invita a todas las personas interesadas en fortalecer sus conocimientos, descubriendo conceptos iniciales sobre el mercurio, sus efectos en la salud y el medio ambiente, comprender el enfoque de género en este campo y proponiendo soluciones para la eliminación de esta sustancia tóxica de los territorios. 

CLASE 1:  FUNDAMENTOS     

CLASE 2:   ESTUDIOS DE YACIMIENTOS   

CLASE 3:   PROSPECCIÓN Y EXPLORACIÓN MINERÍA         

CLASE 4:  BASES DE GEOLOGÍA ECONÓMICA EN INDUSTRIA MINERA

CLASE 5:  HERRAMIENTAS DE ENSEÑANZA – APRENDIZAJE DE ESTUDIOS GEOLÓGICOS

CLASE 6:  ENFOQUE DE GÉNERO E INTERCULTURALIDAD EN LAS FASES PREVIAS A LA MINERIA

This training provides four modules: (1) Production (2) Responsible Mining Standards, (3) Chain of Custody and Due Diligence, and (4) Branding and Marketing. Individual modules can be found in the resource library. 

The curriculum has been designed as an introductory level course on basic knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable artisanal and small-scale miners to run more sustainable, responsible, and profitable enterprises with focus on key safety and health concerns.

Training module for increasing government capacity

Training material consists of 6 topics with a total duration of 12 hours. Training topics include:

• Change your mindset!
• You are an entrepreneur!
• Legal liability and insurance
• Income and cost accounting
• Developing your partnership and business planning
• Mutual savings group

The training is focused on capacity building and understanding the concepts and practices of OHS issues in ASGM. It aims at educating artisanal miners in the OHS standard compliance, identification of hazards and risks, measurement, prevention, control and remediation of mine site-related hazards, and health risks caused by mercury.

The toolkit was developed as part of IMPACT’s vision for natural resources to benefit all genders equally, over the course of IMPACT’s work in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda where the organization, along with its partners, identified gaps in tools available to analyze the impact on women in field-based projects addressing ASM formalization. 

This manual provides training strategies for people teaching artisanal miners and their families both health-related and technical information and skills. This includes peer-educators, technical experts with little or no teaching experience, as well as those accustomed to teaching in academic settings.

This curriculum was developed as part of the project Developing Training Materials to Promote the Reduction of Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining. This curriculum is intended to help teach fundamental business skills to artisanal and small-scale gold miners. These teaching and learning materials are designed to be “open source” meaning that they are made available freely for use by programs, organizations and institutions of all kinds working in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector.

Managing the risk of forced labor in ASM is complex. Strategies to tackle it must address the double objective of eradicating forced labor and making sure that innocent people who rely on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining for their livelihoods are not excluded from mineral supply chains. ASM is a poverty-alleviating activity that directly and indirectly employs hundreds of millions of people around the world; excluding ASM from mineral supply chains could have a terrible impact on their livelihoods. The aim of this toolkit is to provide a handson approach that will help organizations, companies and government institutions to cooperate with artisanal miners rather than exclude them.

Created by the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), the online Training Center, is a learning platform that aims to serve as a hybrid space (virtual and face-to-face) to manage and exchange knowledge on the different sustainability issues related to fair and responsible artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Available in English, French and Spanish.