Resources

This guidance sets out how mining and metals companies can handle and resolve local community grievances effectively, and in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). 

This guide provides an informative, accessible and highly practical reference source on biodiversity that can be used by mining companies at all stages of their operations – from initial exploration to mine closure planning and implementation.

The overarching goal of this handbook is to establish a common knowledge base on the impacts of mercury use in the ASM sector on human health and the environment among all the stakeholders involved in or connected with artisanal gold mining.

Este paquete de diapositivas se presentó durante un seminario web en abril de 2024 para proyectos nacionales planetGOLD, en el que se ofreció una visión general de la participación de las partes interesadas y la visión compartida para la creación de coaliciones. Es el tercero de una serie de seminarios web sobre el Enfoque Jurisdiccional (JA) y el Enfoque Paisajístico (LA).

This slide deck was presented during a April 2024 webinar for planetGOLD national projects giving an overview of Stakeholder Engagement & Shared Visioning for Coalition Building. It is the third in a series of webinars on Jurisdictional Approach (JA) / Landscape Approach (LA).

The importance of partnership in bringing about effective landscape stewardship warrants careful examination of characteristics of good partnerships and effective ways of building them. This chapter contributes to that task by drawing upon pertinent literature and empirical evidence from landscape initiatives to characterise the main elements of a partnership for landscape stewardship and put forward a framework to aid in designing effective partnerships.

A presentation conducted by the planetGOLD Colombia project team and Alliance for Responsible Mining focused on the implementation of the planetGOLD Critiera and CRAFT Code while working with a small-scale mining operation. The recording of the session is available here: planetGOLD Colombia and Alliance for Responsible Mining presentation

This study explores the factors that hinder the implementation of its legal framework for mining. A combination of qualitative explorative methods was applied, including an innovative tool called “Process Net-Map”, a visual participatory mapping technique. The results help to explain the governance challenges of the ASM sector, enabling identification of policy reform options to address them. 

This study addressess the knowledge gap on the scale of the ASGM contribution to the Zimbabwe economy and how it has evolved over time.

This fact sheet provides an overview of Pact's work on artisanal and small-scale gold mining, including the organization's approach to professionalizing the sector and current and previous projects.