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Going for gold in a new partnership: Building a foundation for better gold mining in Uganda

Fairphone English

By combining their expertise in the areas of preventing child labor, improving working conditions and providing a clear path to market, Fairphone aims to work with ASM in Uganda to establish a sustainable, traceable gold supply chain that creates a better future for miners and their families.
Knowledge Areas:

Awareness Raising

Formalization

Access to Finance

Technical Solutions
Topics:

Mining Laws and Policies

Minamata Convention/National Action Plan

Legal Framework

Income/Livelihood

Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations

Governance

Gold Consumers

Gender

Environmental Impact

Due Diligence/Responsible Gold

Due Diligence/ Supply Chains

Development

Conflict Areas

Microfinance/ Socially Responsible Investing
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Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Interventions for greater participation

IIED & IGF 2018 English

This case study highlights how to improve women’s participation in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), complementing the IGF’s previous report, Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Challenges and opportunities for greater participation.
Knowledge Areas:

Awareness Raising
Topics:

Mining Laws and Policies

Legal Framework

Income/Livelihood

Governance

Gender

Development

Microfinance/ Socially Responsible Investing
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African Women in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining

African Minerals Development Centre 2015 English

This Special Report highlights the significant, yet chronically underreported major role African women play in the sector, more so in artisanal and small scale mining (ASM). In Africa, the ASM workforce comprises no less than 40-50% women; this report highlights a selection of them in Ghana, Guinea and Tanzania, and reveals the key challenges that women face in the sector and what can be done to make it more gender-responsive
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Health/Safety

Mining Laws and Policies

Legal Framework

Income/Livelihood

Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations

Gender

Development
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Women of Gold

The Golden Line/Solidaridad 2019 English

This video tells the story of Anna, a female mine worker in Tanzania. Tanzania is the fourth-largest producer of gold in Africa. In Tanzania, approximately 25 percent of all people directly involved in artisanal and small-scale gold mines (ASGM), are women.
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Health/Safety

Mining Laws and Policies

Income/Livelihood

Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations

Gender

Development
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Women Mine-rock Waste Collectors in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Ecuador: Challenges and Opportunities

Patricio Colón Velásquez-López, Claudia Páez-Varas, Ximena Benavides-Zúñiga, Francisco Gallegos, Gerald Fallon 2020 English

CIRDI conducted an exploratory study of the nature of women mine-rock waste collectors’ (WWC) activities and analysed their working conditions managing mine waste rock in Ponce Enríquez, Ecuador. A WWC is locally known as janchera, and currently hundreds of women are involved in this activity within artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
Knowledge Areas:

Awareness Raising

Formalization
Countries:

Ecuador
Topics:

Development

Gender

Health/Safety

Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations

Income/Livelihood

Mining Laws and Policies
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Stakeholder Statement on Implementing Gender-Responsive Due Diligence and ensuring the human rights of women in Mineral Supply Chains

2019 English

Women’s Rights and Mining together with the OECD Secretariat prepared the statement, taking into account input from members of the OECD Multi-stakeholder Steering Group and comments from participants, including over 50 civil society representatives in attendance from around the world, held during the 13th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains, on 25th of April 2019.
Knowledge Areas:

Awareness Raising
Topics:

Mining Laws and Policies

Income/Livelihood

Gender

Due Diligence/Responsible Gold

Due Diligence/ Supply Chains

Development

Conflict Areas

Microfinance/ Socially Responsible Investing
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Improving Access to Formal Finance in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining

planetGOLD 2020 English

This issue brief reviews past experiences with delivering financial and allied services to the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector and examines existing barriers to attracting formal finance and investment in the sector. It concludes with recommended interventions for governments, donors and other allies to help improve ASGM’s access to formal finance in the future.
Knowledge Areas:

Access to Finance
Topics:

Baseline Assessments

Development

Due Diligence/Responsible Gold

Gold Consumers

Governance

Income/Livelihood

Legal Framework

Mercury Reduction/ Mercury Trade

Microfinance/ Socially Responsible Investing

Mining Laws and Policies
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Gold, farms, and forests: Enforcement and alternative livelihoods are unlikely to disincentivize informal gold mining

Graham W. Prescott et al. 2020 English

This study estimates costs that enforcement imposes and the level of enforcement required to deter informal gold mining, and adds to the growing body of evidence that enforcement and alternative livelihood approaches alone are unlikely to deter informal gold mining.
Knowledge Areas:

Formalization

Technical Solutions
Topics:

Mining Laws and Policies

Mercury Reduction/ Mercury Trade

Legal Framework

Income/Livelihood
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Handbook: Developing National ASGM Formalization Strategies within National Action Plans

UNEP, UNITAR 2018 English

This document aims to assist countries to develop artisanal and small-scale gold mining formalization strategies as part of their National Action Plans under the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
Knowledge Areas:

Formalization
Topics:

Mining Laws and Policies

Minamata Convention/National Action Plan

Legal Framework

Human Rights/ Vulnerable Populations

Biodiversity/ Environmental Rehabilitation

Gender
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Forest-Smart Mining: Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes

World Bank English

This report reviews existing knowledge and experience around mining in forested landscapes. It focuses on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). It analyzed several active ASM mine sites as case studies to identify good and bad practices for forest-smart mining and the conditions and mechanisms that motivate these practices.
Knowledge Areas:

Awareness Raising
Countries:

Colombia

Ecuador

Mongolia
Topics:

Mining Laws and Policies

Biodiversity/ Environmental Rehabilitation

Environmental Impact
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