Resources

The Conflict-Free Gold Standard provides a mechanism by which gold producers can assess and provide assurance that their gold has been extracted in a manner that does not cause, support or benefit unlawful armed conflict or contribute to serious human rights abuses or breaches of international humanitarian law.

The authors consider how to approach transformations to sustainability in ASGM.

This study explores the factors that hinder the implementation of its legal framework for mining. A combination of qualitative explorative methods was applied, including an innovative tool called “Process Net-Map”, a visual participatory mapping technique. The results help to explain the governance challenges of the ASM sector, enabling identification of policy reform options to address them. 

The report presents an overview of the impacts of ASM on biodiversity in the LAC countries and reviews strategies to address the issue. 

This slide deck was presented during a April 2024 webinar for planetGOLD national projects giving an overview of Negotiations for Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities (IL&PCs). It is the third in a series of webinars on Jurisdictional Approach (JA) / Landscape Approach (LA).

This report describes a workshop for government officials in Niger that promoted a national dialogue on ASM governance challenges related to illicit financial flows and conflict.

This policy briefing sets out key technical recommendations for the ongoing reform programme that would enable Mali to overcome obstacles to derive greater revenue from mining, to improve local development around mining sites and to strengthen the rights of artisanal gold miners.

This guidance document outlines a framework of interventions that, taken together, provide governments with the tools to support the development of the ASM sector in a holistic and sustainable manner.

This article examines the recentralization of power in this growing informal sector, exploring how heavy-handed implementation of national reforms contributed to livelihood insecurity. The study emphasizes how national officials invoked “formalization” rationales for mining policy shifts that obscured their underlying political and economic drivers, disempowering local district authorities and deepening the marginalization of informal livelihoods.