Como parte de la campaña "MAPE sin COVID-19", planetGOLD en Perú junto a un grupo de organizaciones de la sociedad civil y con apoyo de la cooperación internacional han desarrollado esta cartilla sanitaria que permita a los mineros y mineras artesanales y de pequeña escala afrontar el COVID-19 durante sus actividades.
The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is causing widespread global business and human rights-related impacts throughout mineral value chains. To keep the RMI stakeholder community informed on the global landscape related to the coronavirus, and the disruptions and opportunities relating to mineral value chains, we will be adding informative and practical content to this page
Burkina’s artisanal miners do not have direct access to the gold market, they sell their gold on the mine site to local buyers who work for the approved comptoirs located in the cities of Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso.
Currently, there are no alternatives available to artisanal miners to improve the gold supply chain during this COVID -19 crisis.
La MAPE a menudo se asocia con la degradación ambiental, la explotación de los trabajadores, las prácticas inseguras e incluso los conflictos. Sin embargo, el sector también es una fuente de empleo y desarrollo económico local en algunas de las zonas más desfavorecidas del mundo, donde existen pocas alternativas. Este breve informe resume un análisis del estado que toma la comunicación de la MAPE (incluyendo las barreras para una comunicación efectiva) y las tendencias emergentes, junto con recomendaciones dirigidas a comunicadores y tomadores de decisiones.
Abby Efua Hilson; Gavin Hilson - for planetGOLD
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This report reviews past experiences with delivering financial and allied services to artisanal and small-scale mining and makes recommendations regarding best practices and potential ways forward in improving access to finance based on this experience.
Social and environmental harm continues to emanate from global commodity production despite the array of governance programs trying to mitigate it. This paper examines the evolution of transnational certification standards in an understudied sector: artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM).
Levin Sources reports on eight key findings to facilitate access to international gold markets for artisanal gold miners in Eastern DRC as part of the USAID-funded Commercially Viable Conflict-Free Gold (CVCFG) project lead by Global Communities.
The looming third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have devastating impacts in many countries in the Global South, with far worse health outcomes and economic implications. While formal and informal income sources in LMICs are collapsing, the ASGM sector offers a rare and desperately needed income opportunity due to the stable or rising international gold price. At the same time, artisanal mining communities can be considered as most-affected and at-risk group according to the UN Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19.
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