This toolkit helps companies avoid impacting negatively on communities and to leave a positive legacy. This document is available in English and Spanish.
Amarjargal Dairii,
Lkhagvadulam Jamiyandagva,
Khishigsuren Lkhagva,
Altanbagana Bayarsaikhan
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This report offers a comprehensive overview of the access of artisanal gold miners to key social services in Mongolia, including healthcare, health insurance, social insurance, social welfare, and early childhood education.
These guidelines are based on completed FPIC CI case studies and provide a complementary tool to CI’s institutional policies, including the recently updated Indigenous Peoples and CI Policy. They provide introductory and background information on FPIC, as well as actual steps for ensuring FPIC.
This briefing proposes a collaborative, multi-stakeholder response that is underpinned by a deep understanding of structural inequalities to transform gender relations and design programmes and policies to tackle and prevent GBV within mining workplaces and communities.
Yves Bertran Alvarez; Josephine Singo; Alliance for Responsible Mining - for planetGOLD
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This guide focuses on occupational safety and health (OSH) issues related to artisanal and small-scale mining, with an emphasis on gold mining. Addressing OSH risks improves worker well-being, enhances productivity, and encourages responsible mining practices. However, challenges such as insufficient data, lack of infrastructure, and the need for gender-responsive interventions, mean that OSH measures are usually not fully implemented in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector.
This quick reference guide is intended for managers of projects working with mine operations, as well as mine operators themselves, who want to improve
In the relationship between the ASM and LSM/ aggregating processing plants, the latter are normally in a position of power. This document provides elaborated recommendations on this matter.
Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
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The aim of this guide is to reflect the existing best practices for engagement of Indigenous Peoples and for engagement of local communities in response to decision MC-5/7 paragraph 7.
On the 25th of June 2025, the Government of Zimbabwe gazetted the long-awaited Mines and Minerals Bill, 2025. The gazetting of Zimbabwe's Mines and Minerals Bill marks a decisive step in the country's efforts to modernize its mining legislation. The Bill seeks to overhaul the regulatory framework governing the mining industry, modernizing the law to reflect contemporary industry realities. However, for the Bill to achieve its intended goals of fostering an equitable, sustainable, and inclusive mining sector, it must adequately address the realities of those working in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector.
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