Resources

Strategic, inclusive communication and awareness raising practices play a critical role in educating miners and communities with artisanal and small-scale mining activities, while also helping build greater public support for transforming the ASGM sector with responsible, mercury-free mining practices. For these reasons, communication is a cross-cutting theme across the planetGOLD programme. This report assesses the communication and awareness raising related interventions of the planetGOLD Indonesia project. 

“Establishing financing and loan alternatives to promote the acquisition of mercury-free technologies in ASGM” organizes and reconstructs the existing information on financial inclusion in the responsible artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector in Peru, based on the experience of the planetGOLD Peru project. The publication seeks to make known the advances in financial inclusion issues within the ASGM sector to mining organizations, savings and credit cooperatives, financial institutions, civil society institutions, international cooperation, specialized technical personnel, and potential users of credits. También disponible en español.

This case study documents the finance models implemented by the planetGOLD partner project in Ecuador in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities, with a consideration of the gender aspects of the projects. 

This policy report provides an overview of the current laws and regulations governing the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector in Mongolia and provides recommendations to support the professionalization of the sector.

This case study gives an overview of a lease-to-purchase blended finance program developed by The Impact Facility for Sustainable Mining Communities (TIF) to provide equipment and foster sustainable mining practices in the ASGM sector of Western Kenya. This case study is part of a larger body of work documenting financial access interventions for the ASGM sector. 

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.

The objective of the study was to establish the status of the mercury trade and supply, its use in the ASGM sector, and its impacts on health and the environment. 

The interaction between large-scale mining companies and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations has not always been positive, and encounters between the two sectors are increasing. There are a number of ASM sustainable development challenges – including security, human rights and relocation programs – that can require specific ASM consideration.

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 Mongolia project.