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The objective of this report is to summarize gender dynamics in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector and their social and economic implications on women miners in Mongolia.  The report concludes that, while some barriers exist, the ASGM sector offers viable livelihoods options for women and identifies encouraging opportunities for women to serve as agents of change for formalization and better mining practices.

The brochure introduces a standard set of criteria for conformance of the SSM organizations under the planetGOLD program. It contains the summary of modules based on the CRAFT Code and the planetGOLD-specific criteria as per the GEF Environment and Social Safeguards requirements.

Afin d'améliorer la formalisation, l'accès au financement et la traçabilité de l'or artisanal, le projet planetGOLD Burkina Faso a créé cette brochure pour fournir un bref aperçu de la législation encadrant régissant le secteur EMAPE au Burkina Faso et, en collaboration avec le gouvernement du Burkina Faso, pour fournir des recommandations sur le cadre politique pour promouvoir et soutenir un secteur EMAPE durable intégrant la protection de l'environnement, la prévention du travail des enfants, la promotion de l'égalité du genre parmi les mineurs, la promotion de la protection sociale, la facilitation de l'accès direct des mineurs aux marchés internationaux, et l'harmonisation des taxes et redevances.

This paper reflects critically on efforts to formalize artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing – in Mozambique.

Tomando en cuenta diversas experiencias y contextos de Latinoamérica como Colombia, Perú y Bolivia, esta publicación hace énfasis en la viabilidad de la aplicación del Estándar en la región latinoamericana y ofrece, a su vez, nuevos caminos para incentivar la adopción de buenas prácticas mineras.

La presente herramienta operativo mostrará los pasos a seguir para aplicar métodos y procedimientos que permitan establecer un sistema de trazabilidad.

Oro Legal remains USAID’s largest and most ambitious bilateral initiative in support of ASGM and was implemented in two of Colombia’s emblematic mining departments — Antioquia and Chocó — between September 2015 and April 2021.

El taller internacional "Experiencias exitosas sobre MAPE responsable" se realizó entre el 11 y 15 de enero del 2021 más de 30 organizaciones mineras e instituciones internacionales públicas y privadas de Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Indonesia, Honduras y Perú compartieron sus experiencias exitosas en la adopción de tecnologías limpias, así como la aplicación de mejores prácticas en la MAPE.

This mapping research shares key learnings and recommendations to address child labour in ASM drawn from Levin Source's latest report, in which they mapped existing interventions to address child labour and poor working conditions in the ASM sector in order to extract lessons learned and gaps from existing projects and initiatives that aim to address child labour.

Mining has become one of the key economic drivers of terrorist activity in West and Central Africa, with independent reports showing a clear link between unregulated mining operations and terror groups. The OECD has a number of plans to tackle these relationships, but,  how effective can an independent organisation truly be?