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This document was created to support health workers who practice in communities where ASGM occurs. This guide is illustrated and contains key messages that should be conveyed to the community. This guide can be used for group information sessions or for individual sessions.

Second module of the Verification and Capacity Building Training Package.

The Tapajos River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon is the location of one of the largest concentrations of artisanal and small-scale miners in the world. A group of educators provided support to miners, training 4200 people in 141 mining locations. The effectiveness of this training was evaluated based on 20 performance indicators. After 120 days of training, an absolute improvement of approximately 29% had been achieved.

The Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector typically consists of small groups or individuals extracting gold with semi-mechanized and low-tech methods. Mining sites tend to have poor occupational safety standards and practices exposing miners to various occupational health hazards. Chemical risks include the exposure to toxic substances such as mercury, cyanide and silica dust. Other occupational health risks include painful disorders of the muscles and skeleton (e.g. from heavy lifting), physical trauma (e.g., from slipping, falling, landslides) or exposure to noise, heat and humidity. Furthermore, poor living conditions in

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

The importance of partnership in bringing about effective landscape stewardship warrants careful examination of characteristics of good partnerships and effective ways of building them. This chapter contributes to that task by drawing upon pertinent literature and empirical evidence from landscape initiatives to characterise the main elements of a partnership for landscape stewardship and put forward a framework to aid in designing effective partnerships.

The training is focused on capacity building and understanding the concepts and practices of OHS issues in ASGM. It aims at educating artisanal miners in the OHS standard compliance, identification of hazards and risks, measurement, prevention, control and remediation of mine site-related hazards, and health risks caused by mercury.

The importance of partnership in bringing about effective landscape stewardship warrants careful examination of characteristics of good partnerships and effective ways of building them. This chapter contributes to that task by drawing upon pertinent literature and empirical evidence from landscape initiatives to characterise the main elements of a partnership for landscape stewardship and put forward a framework to aid in designing effective partnerships.

A study of the supply chain in two gold-producing regions of Burkina Faso and Senegal

The authors present the value of remote sensing techniques to complement the knowledge on artisanal mining impacts, including for detection of illegal sites, the evaluation of the degradation of soils and waters, the deforestation and the monitoring of expansion of ASGM with time. While these techniques are relevant, they sometimes are blind  to gender issues, labor relations, mobility, migration, and insecurity.