Resources

As part of their Lake Victoria Gold Programme, they developed a handbook guiding the continuous improvement of ASMO’s along what they refer to as an Impact Escalator.

This paper focuses on women’s roles in Guyana's ASGM sector, with the intention of providing comprehensive findings that can be used to make the sector more gender-inclusive and environmentally and socially sustainable.

This report includes findings and recommendations from Pact's scoping study of the ASM sector in Zimbabwe.

Between 50 % – 70 % of the world’s gold is refined in Switzerland, and Swiss banks also play a crucial role in marketing bullion. Switzerland is also a primary hub for upmarket jewellery and watchmaking and the awareness of designers to consumers of risks involved remains very low. This report addresses the problems head on and serves to raise awareness amongst producers and consumers alike.

Formalization—the process of integrating ASGM into the formal economy, society, and regulatory system—is a critical step toward helping address environmental and social challenges in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector and and toward achieving the sector’s development potential. This report assesses the formalization-related interventions of the planetGOLD Burkina Faso project. 

The IRMA Guidance Document to the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining V1.0 has been updated. This latest version (V1.3), is available in English, and can be found under the Resources webpage.

Formalization—the process of integrating ASGM into the formal economy, society, and regulatory system—is a critical step toward helping address environmental and social challenges in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector and and toward achieving the sector’s development potential. This report assesses the formalization-related interventions of the planetGOLD Indonesia project. 

In the planetGOLD programme design, a Global Project was created to foster co-learning and collaboration across projects in the programme. The Global Project aimed to support communication, outreach and knowledge sharing with a wide range of international stakeholders engaged in improving the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. This report describes the activities, results and lessons learned from the execution of the first phase of the Global Project (2019-2025). 

Download the report in English, French or Spanish below.

Levin Sources and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime produced two case studies identifying financial flows-both licit and illicit- in Mongolian and Filipino ASGM sectors. This report, focusing on The Philippines, provides a nuanced first-look at how stakeholders can better understand and respond to the role gold supply chains and financial flows play in formalization efforts.