Part of the toolkit Supporting Best Practices at Artisanal Gold Mines developed by IMPACT, planetGOLD Uganda, and planetGOLD Côte d’Ivoire to help artisanal gold mining communities strengthen their capacity on issues that affect their health, safety, and livelihoods, this facilitator guide supports users in identifying key risks within the sector and taking appropriate safety precautions while promoting more effective, safe, and environmentally responsible gold production.
The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
English
This report addresses the interconnectedness of gender equality and mine closure by reviewing current issues and practices in both mine closure and gender equality—and, importantly, where they intersect—and provides policy recommendations for governments to ensure that gender considerations are integrated into all aspects of mine closure
The planetGOLD programme works to make small-scale gold mining safer, cleaner, and more profitable from mine to market—by closing the financing gap, supporting formalization, and connecting miners with mercury-free technology and formal markets.
The 2024-2025 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the progress made in these four key programmatic areas, and in other aspects of the programme including mainstreaming gender equality along with awareness raising and communication outreach. The report includes data from the national projects and the global coordination project.
This handbook is the result of a training session which took place in Maputo, Mozambique from 26 to 30 September 2022, with participants from 16 countries in Southern African Region. This training aimed at building capacity in the Geological Surveys of the African continent in matters related to the assessment and management of mineral resources, use and sustainable land development, mitigation of natural risks and environmental protection.
This report provides brief summaries of each of the Global Forum sessions. Readers interested in more in-depth information are invited to visit the event page on the planetGOLD website.
The planetGOLD programme works to make small-scale gold mining safer, cleaner, and more profitable from mine to market—by closing the financing gap, supporting formalization, and connecting miners with mercury-free technology and formal markets.
The 2023-2024 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the progress made in these four key programmatic areas, and in other aspects of the programme including mainstreaming gender equality and outreach and communications. Available in English, French and Spanish, the report includes data from the national projects and the global coordination project.
This report provides a cross-programmatic assessment of the first phase (2018-2025) of the planetGOLD programme, which comprised nine country-level projects as well as a global coordination project. The report first examines planetGOLD’s strategies for ASGM development in terms of formalization, technology transfer, financial and market access, and communications, and includes observations and recommendations for activities under each pillar.
Common challenges, divergent approaches, and successful methods are discussed against the background of gender and Indigenous issues. The report then reflects on sustainability of outcomes and concludes
This Annual Progress Report features key activities, milestones, and figures from 23 country projects across the programme for the July 2022 – June 2023 reporting period. In addition to narrative summaries of key activities and accomplishments among these projects, this report incorporates data on four key output indicators that are tracked across the programme: tonnes of mercury abated; number of miners supported in their formalization processes; amount of money made available to ASGM through financial mechanisms; and amount of responsible ASGM gold produced.
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