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 Burkina Faso project. 

This report offers guidance on how to resource the energy transition with equity and justice while, strengthening development and human security in all forms.

In this context, this study assessed total Hg (THg) in blood, urine and hair, and methylmercury (MeHg) in human hair samples from 238 participants with occupational exposure to Hg in the most relevant ASGM communities of Colombia.

A new report from WWF and Themis traces how high-risk minerals—including gold, cobalt, coltan, and rare earths—move through opaque, multi-jurisdictional supply chains that are hard to monitor and vulnerable to criminal exploitation. 

This report summarizes the activities and results of the project Developing Training Materials to Promote the Reduction of Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining. Overall, the project sought to produce a business training module based on leading global practice in ASGM and designed to promote Minamata Convention compliance. This project is intended to enhance coordination among ASGM education programs throughout the APEC region in support of domestic and international mercury reduction efforts.

This Policy sets out the GEF’s approach to anticipating, and then avoiding, preventing, minimizing, mitigating, managing, offsetting or compensating any adverse impacts that GEF-financed projects and programs may have on people or the environment throughout the project or program cycle; thereby enhancing the environmental and social outcomes of such projects and programs.

The Minamata Initial Assessment (MIA) project in Uganda was conducted to strengthen national decision making towards ratification of the Minamata Convention and build capacity towards implementation of future provisions. This report provides the results of the Minamata Initial Assessment in Uganda.

The study examined the practices in the Philippines small-scale gold mining industry, particularly the working conditions of miners and workers during gold extraction and processing. It evaluated the miners’ and workers’ exposure to various occupational safety and health hazards and recommended appropriate control measures for their maximum protection.

In this 2019 edition of the NEMA newsletter, Anne Nakafeero authors an article beginning on page 8 detailing key facts and figures on the ASGM sector in Uganda

This paper provides an opportunity to study the drivers of ASM’s exposure to capture by criminal and armed actors, the consequences of acting on the wrong assumptions or failing to act at all, and the shared responsibility to ensure that rising demand for gold does not deepen conflict but instead supports more just outcomes.