This report documenting planetGOLD’s progress from July 2021 through June 2022 shows how project teams in planetGOLD made key advances toward helping miners go mercury-free, by improving miners’ awareness of the dangers of mercury use, educating and demonstrating to them viable technical alternatives, and progressing in creating an enabling regulatory and financial environment that supports miners to undertake this transition.
The planetGOLD programme sets out specific criteria to govern the operations of artisanal and small-scale gold mining entities engaged with the programme. The planetGOLD Criteria align with the CRAFT Code, and include three criteria that are specific to the planetGOLD programme: eliminating mercury in the mining process, respecting and protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and minimizing impact on biodiversity. Conformance with this criteria will ensure that artisanal and small-scale miners participating in the planetGOLD programme undertake sufficient efforts to avoid, minimize, mitigate, and where appropriate, offset adverse impacts to people and the environment.
Este informe de progreso de planetGOLD ofrece un resumen del progreso en las áreas programáticas de planetGOLD de formalización, acceso a la financiación, soluciones técnicas, acceso a los mercados formales, sensibilización y equidad de género. El informe destaca las principales actividades llevadas a cabo por los proyectos nacionales que participan en la primera fase del programa planetGOLD y por el proyecto de coordinación global.
Don Julio es un minero tradicional que ahora realiza sus prácticas con técnicas limpias y libres de mercurio. 🌎💦🙌 A través del apoyo del proyecto #planetaGOLD Colombia y su aliado ARM, recibió la certificación #Fairmined 🏅, logrando capacitación, asistencia técnica y la posibilidad de acceder a mercados justos. ✅
📍 Conoce más sobre su historia en www.planetgold.org/colombia
This study is an assessment of the existing legal and policy framework in the Philippines on artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in order to determine the pathways for the formalization of the ASGM sector. The study specifically aims to: (1) Review and analyze the existing policies and legal framework governing the ASGM sector, gold trading, and illicit financial flows (IFF) in the Philippines; (2) Assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the laws and regulations governing ASGM in the two project sites, namely: Paracale, Camarines Norte and Sagada, Mountain Province; (3) Identify the gaps and barriers, both legal and non-legal, to the formalization of the sector; and (4) Provide specific recommendations on the policy issues and gaps that were identified with specific gender-responsive policy recommendations that would address the gaps and barriers in the formalization of ASGM as a sector.
The curriculum has been designed as an introductory level course on basic knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable artisanal and small-scale miners to run more sustainable, responsible, and profitable enterprises with focus on key safety and health concerns.
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