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Women play a major role in the ASM sector in Ghana, as they do in all countries where ASM takes place. The dialogue meetings offered the chance to share ideas about improving working conditions and community wellbeing (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
New voices: Ghanaian miners, students and civil society representatives talk about ASM
… Miners (GNASSM). She talks about the new Learning and Leadership Group and the importance of dialogue in the ASM sector. … talks about the responsibility of small-scale miners to contribute to sustainable development. … Sustainable markets …
News, 27 October 2016
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Policy learning in action. Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods
… are potentially the world’s largest asset class after real estate, if markets can be developed around them. As markets for these services … of market mechanisms implemented by effective institutions delivering sustainable and equitable benefits. The Katoomba Group and key international water policy dialogues linked to the …
Publication, 01 July 2003
Woman holding to mobile phones
Addressing gendered gaps in digital technology for a just and inclusive transition
… experience setbacks in progressing gender equality, and as the 2022 Sustainable Development Goals report  notes, employment losses are … have embraced digital technology for innovative, inclusive and sustainable growth (PDF) .   Digital technology has the potential to … Communities need digital tools to manage climate risks and access markets and social protection. But access to these tools is often …
Insight, 08 March 2023
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ASM-LSM-government relations. Shaping an agenda for collaboration
… improved stakeholder roles, relations and responsibility, to secure sustainable livelihoods and economic performance. We have spoken to 37 … gap in the sector by IIED’s 10-year review of Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (Buxton 2012). This paper draws on our … the key opportunities and challenges that help or hinder ASM for sustainable development — and how improved relations between the …
Publication, 01 April 2015
Miners pushing a cart out of a mine near the Bolivian town of Potosi. For centuries this area had the richest silver mines in South America. Today many of the mines are worked by local cooperatives, but conditions are still harsh (Photo Nyall & Maryanne, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector
… had a bigger voice at the table in defining the language of sustainable development for the sector. It is only in this way that the … the agenda From 2000-02, IIED housed the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) programme . It was a landmark initiative … ( [email protected] ) is senior researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 05 February 2015
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Survival for a Small Planet: The sustainable development agenda
… from around the world in a ‘post-WSSD’ analysis of the prospects for sustainable development on all the major policy fronts including … partnerships, migration, health, access to resources and the role of markets. The distinguished group of authors examines the contributions that governments, business … Survival for a Small Planet: The sustainable development agenda …
Publication, 01 September 2003
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… are decided. A new report from WWF, researched by IIED, shows that sustainable forest management (SFM) benefits when communities living in … an assessment of approaches for wider recognition and spread of sustainable forest management by local communities  – aims to step back from the approach of making SFM work for international markets and provides evidence of alternative approaches that address SFM …
Insight, 14 July 2020
Women from a mining community talk with Amina Tahiru, a member of the Learning and Leadership Group (Photo: Gabriella Flores)
In pictures: a dialogue for action on mining in Ghana
… The meeting also saw the formation of a Learning and Leadership Group, which will take the discussions forward and guide a process of … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 06 September 2016
Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay
… it could have helped foster a more diversified, value-adding and sustainable forestry enterprise sector. Civic Response, along with … in other countries which are part of the Forest Governance Learning Group facilitated by IIED, has developed and used a range of tactics … Mayers ( [email protected] ) is head of IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 19 March 2015
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Impact note on Ghana ASM dialogue
… across multiple stakeholders and sectors~ 4 A learning and leadership group to drive next steps and link with national and international … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 February 2016