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
Thanks to this laboratory, we can recover valuable minerals without the use of mercury. Miners from El Bagre, Antioquia, will be able to train and learn about clean extraction techniques with the environment.
Together with SENA, we work to strengthen knowledge management in favor of communities, demonstrating that gold extraction is possible without the use of mercury.
✊ #LaMineríaCuenta con más oportunidades, mejores herramientas para la inclusión financiera y un mayor compromiso por eliminar el mercurio. Otorgamos créditos a mineros y mineras de subsistencia en Antioquia, en alianza con CFA Cooperativa Financiera.
📝 Con esta entrega, estas comunidades podrán fortalecer emprendimientos agrícolas o comerciales, como alternativas para sus actividades mineras. Con estos, ya son de 27 créditos que el proyecto planetGOLD Colombia del PNUD y sus socios han facilitado para la pequeña minería y minería de subsistencia en Antioquia y el Sur de Bolívar, por un valor de 830 millones de pesos. 👏 📍
Para conocer más sobre esta historia, ingrese a https://www.planetgold.org/comunidades-mineras-de-antioquia-y-sur-de-bolivar-reciben-creditos-por-830-millones-de-pesos
Continue your story for equality! 📘👉 We invited several women to tell us how they recognize themselves and contribute to the empowerment of their actions and territories. 🤗✊ As true protagonists, they narrated their motivations through videos and joined the common message for a more inclusive world, without stereotypes and with equal opportunities. #GeneroMas🎥👇 And you, woman, how do you recognize yourself?
In Yalí, Antioquia, small miners are betting on environmentally sustainable practices that allow them to recover gold without the use of mercury. They are committed to a Mercury Free Colombia. Learn about the experience of some miners who trust in the cleaning of tailings for the extraction of valuable minerals and, mainly, strive to work for the care of human health and environmental preservation through their economic activity.
This Policy sets out the guiding principles and mandatory requirements for mainstreaming gender across the GEF’s governance and operations with a view to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in support of the GEF’s mandate to achieve global environmental benefits. This Policy supersedes the 2011 Gender Mainstreaming Policy
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