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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 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.

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.

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.

The study focuses on an alternative to the miners processing ore themselves; instead small miners sell their ore to plants employing larger-scale, mercury-free technologies that also raise gold yields.  Taking an interesting lens the researchers assessed the ore-selling preferences of female waste-rock collectors (jancheras) in Ecuador, using a discrete-choice experiment. 

The Amazon is under assault from organised crime. Exploiting weak governance, illegal groups are pushing deep into protected jungle areas as they seek out new routes for drug trafficking and sites to extract gold and critical minerals. The Portuguese and Spanish versions can be found here.

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 Kenya project. 

This paper highlights the role that OECD-led initiatives to support ASM formalisation in conflict zones can play to support disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes.