Our new State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector Report, launched at the 2024 Mining Indaba Conference, advocates for gender-focused legislation to improve mining codes to enhance women's participation.
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The 2023 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector report, a collaboration with the international development organization PACT, details gender …
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We argue that policymakers, relevant stakeholders, and the government through the district assemblies should collaborate with small-scale mining employers to …
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Women's groups which could represent women's interests in most cases get off to a good start, only to struggle due to lack of organizational structure and institutional capacity, competition for power, weak leadership and corruption. 1.2 Objectives of the study To establish the women's roles in artisanal and small scale mining in Zimbabwe ...
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood for over 40 million people in developing countries, particularly for those living in remote, rural areas, according to the recent 2019 State of the ASM Sector report.Although it is the most important rural non-farm activity in the developing world, the sector remains under …
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1. Forthcoming Extractive Industries and Society, in production (November 2019) Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Implications for formalization. …
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There is gender imbalance in the mining industry in terms of the number of stakeholders and the roles that each gender group (male/) plays in the industry. While the large-scale mining sector has a high male dominance, the small-scale mining sector has a near gender balance.
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the mining sector – artisanal and small-scale mining – has a huge work-force, estimated at between 40-50% in Africa, according to the 2014 report Encyclopedia of Gender and Mining: Key Initiatives, Best Practices and Actors, produced by the Ger-man Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ).
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Research has identified that: Women's participation varies by country and mineral, but women often undertake a range of tasks within ASM mining operations, in-cluding …
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Approximately 30% of the world's artisanal miners are women who occupy a number of roles ranging from labour-intensive mining methods to the processing aspect of artisanal mining, including amalgamation with mercury in the case of gold extraction.
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Accountability and Artisanal Mining Program. The program works to formalize the sector, bolster safety and ... Mining inRwanda SGBV sexual and gender-based violence SHIELD Strategic Helpdesk for ... State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector 2020 VII ABOUT THE 2020 REPORT AND DELVE .
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Our Role. In 2020, the IGF and partners launched a 4-week massive online open course (MOOC) on Gender and Mining Governance to raise awareness and develop skills. The course took a …
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Gender inequality is an inevitable concomitant of the innate poverty in humanity, a situation to which the Ghanaian society is no exception. This paper explores the underlying elements of gender inequality pertinent to women in the small-scale gold mining sector in Ghana drawing inference from a case study of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Assembly Area in …
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Using IMPACT's Toolkit: Gender Impact Assessments for Projects and Policies Relates to Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, policymakers across the three countries will be supported to reflect and act to ensure the laws, policies, and regulations affecting the ASM sector improve gender equality.
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Abstract. Understanding the gender relations and dynamics in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is crucial for formalization interventions and gender …
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Understanding the gender relations and dynamics in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is crucial for formalization interventions and gender-sensitive on-site policies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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in different roles.4 Gender equality is a human rights issue, and it is vital in ensuring sustainable development ... Time spent on unpaid domestic and care work Women in political positions Equal rights to land ownership ... EALS Policy Paper on Harmonization of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the East African Community. 13 Nalule, V.R ...
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A new World Bank and Pact report finds that better working conditions can improve productivity, health, and safety for the over 44 million artisanal miners across 80 countries. The report outlines solutions to improve occupational health and safety, social protection, and fair labor standards for the artisanal and small-scale (ASM) sector and …
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roles of women in mining and in economic activities linked to mining such as food production and small-scale trading. Very little is known, for example, about the varied roles women play in the mining process or the ways in which gender norms, attitudes, and institutions shape the kinds of activities women are "allowed" to do, with implications
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Understanding the gender relations and dynamics in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is crucial for formalization interventions and gender-sensitive on-site policies in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, there is very little research on how gender influences women's economic opportunities and power relations at ASM sites in Ghana.
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4 The Pact Artisanal and Small-Scale mining scoping study report 2015 5 The Pact Artisanal and Small-Scale mining scoping study report 2015 6 The Pact Artisanal and Small-Scale mining scoping study report 2015 7 S17 Gender Balance in Constitution an s124 on 60 reserved seats in the National Assembly
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This entry explores issues of gender in the context of large-scale and artisanal mining in developing countries. Mining is often perceived to be a masculine occupation because men predominate in the work of extraction. Women, however, play vital roles in processing ores and precious stones as well as providing services to working men.
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Gender in Mining Governance: An annotated bibliography for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) RESOURCES ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND DISSERTATIONS Bashwira, M. (2017). Navigating obstacles, opportunities and reforms: Women's lives and livelihoods in artisanal mining communities in eastern DRC. https://research.wur.nl/en/
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Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable …
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Artisanal and small-scale miners play a big role in the mining of Development Minerals such as construction materials, industrial minerals and semi-precious stones - to meet the growing needs of ...
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In this paper, we provide an overview of extant research on gender and women's livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining …
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a significant source of income for tens of millions of people in developing countries. ASM refers to small groups and individuals engaged in low-cost and laborintensive excavation of …
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Zambia i s a country with a lo ng history of mining, small-scale and large-scale, state-owned and priv ate. Women are in volv ed in the artisanal mining of industrial minerals and gems tones, in
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Across many mineral-rich developing countries, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has been noted as a crucial socio-economic activity for most rural people. Over the past 2 decades, there has been growing participation of women in the ASM sector with extant studies examining why women participate in ASM, the roles they play and …
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Although a growing body of research emphasizes the role of women in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in developing countries, gender inequality is still persistent in the sector. The paper investigates whether ASM sector policies integrate gender equality principles of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Our new State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector report, launched at the 2024 Mining Indaba Conference, advocates for gender-focused …
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The 2023 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector report, a collaboration with the international development organization PACT, details gender inequalities in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and highlights actions to improve gender equality and advance women's participation. It reviews mining laws in 21 …
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Talensi small-scale gold-mining industry in Ghana: Implica-tions for social welfare policy Although women have access to work in the Talensi small-scale gold-mining industry in Ghana, gender inequities persist. This study analyzed these persistent gender differences, taking into consideration implications for social welfare policies. Based on ...
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Work patterns and gender reproduction in the Talensi small-scale gold-mining industry in Ghana: Implications for social welfare policy . International Journal of Social Welfare,
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a significant source of income for tens of millions of people in developing countries. ASM refers to small groups and individuals engaged in low-cost and laborintensive excavation of minerals using minimal mechanization. ASM techniques are used in the production of precious minerals such as …
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Ottawa – Women who work in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) face economic, decision-making, legal and institutional exclusions due to cultural norms. This is the finding of a new report from the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF).
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Global Report on Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining 3 Introduction In many parts of the world, artisanal or small-scale mining (ASM) activities are at least as important as large-scale mining activities, particularly in terms of the numbers of people employed. ASM can play a crucial role in poverty alleviation and rural development; most
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Although women have access to work in the Talensi small-scale gold-mining industry in Ghana, gender inequities persist. This study analyzed these persistent gender differences, taking into consideration implications for social welfare policies. ... the study examined how work organization in Talensi mining activities affects the values …
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