Resources

The guidebook offers a step-by-step guide for strategic
assessment, identification of instruments for policy dialogue, and
mechanisms for conducting stakeholder consultation, along with
the steps for policy design and for the formulation of a CMV
implementation, monitoring and evaluation tool. 

This paper reports on a study regarding a safer alternative method of gold recovery; direct smelting. This process generates a final product in one-step as compared to the three-step amalgamation, retorting/heating and smelting, currently practiced. Direct smelting has the potential to replace amalgamation and retorting because it is more effective, easier, quicker and cheaper.

This research shows women actively migrate to mining centers in DRC seeking employment. However, this relocation brings vulnerability to physical, sexual and economic predation. Programs should help promote women's access to safe and equitable employment in these areas. 

An Accountability and Grievance Mechanism is a way of recording and resolving grievances. These posters developed by the planetGOLD project in Guyana are tools to inform the public about its mechanism and the process by which anyone who feels they are negatively impacted by the project could report a grievance.

Parte de "Desarrollo de un producto financiero para ser utilizado en el sector de la Mineria Artesanal y de Pequena Escala de oro" del Programa Nacional para la Gestión Ambientalmente Racional y la Gestión del Ciclo de Vida de las Sustancias Químicas – proyecto

Part of "Development of a financial product to be used in the Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining Sector" developed by Ecuador's National Program for Environmentally Sound Management and Life-cycle Management of Chemicals.

Un informe sobre (i) Identificación de institución financiera que puede ofertar productos financieros para el sector MAPE y (ii) Propuesta de adecuación a productos financieros identificados. Parte de "Desarrollo de un producto financiero para ser utilizado en el sector de la Mineria Artesanal y de Pequena Escala de oro" del programa nacional para la gestión ambientalmente racional y la gestión del ciclo de vida de las sustancias químicas – proyecto

Overview paper that presents (i) identification of financial institution that can offer financial products for the ASM sector, and (ii) proposal for adjustment to identified financial products. Part of "Development of a financial product to be used in the Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining Sector"

La inclusión financiera responsable es un factor determinante dentro de la iniciativa GEF-GOLD en Colombia, siendo la pequeña minería y minería artesanal, uno de los sectores más excluídos de la Banca Formal y con un alto desconocimiento por parte del Sector Financiero en general en nuestro país.

Financial inclusion for sustainable investments is a key element in the GEF-GOLD initiative in Colombia. Small-scale mining and artisanal mining are foremost excluded from Formal Banking. Very little information is available within the country for granting credit criteria.