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Woman pastoralist herding cattle in Marsabit, rural Kenya
How are civil society and impacted communities working to change the governance of land-based investments?
… Land-based investments (LBIs) such as logging, mining and agribusiness have increased steadily across the world, often … rights, and environmental and climate obligations. ODC promoted multi-stakeholder dialogue and the critical role of communities and civil … and other media outreach, coordination across civil society and the engagement of traditional leaders all contributed to the adoption of the …
Insight, 22 July 2024
Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on artisanal and small-scale mining
Project, 24 June 2015
A small-scale mine in Mawemeru village, Geita district, Tanzania (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
A mine of information
… Not enough is known or understood about artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), but there are some useful resources available. As IIED prepares to launch its Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Series on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining with a … tools, guiding principles and highlights the business case for engagement and collaboration between the large-scale mining sector (LSM) …
Insight, 20 April 2015
An artisanal miner
Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… IIED's first in a series of local multi-stakeholder dialogues on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) started in Ghana in autumn 2015.  During a ' visioning … right people together, agree a plan of action and appoint leaders to guide them. Following six months of research and consultation involving …
Project, 15 July 2016
Eighteen-year-old Maame Esi Rose, who washes ore to help her and two younger siblings survive, will contribute to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector dialogue in Ghana (Photo: IIED)
Talking mining in Ghana
… Ghanaian stakeholders in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) are gathering this week in Tarkwa to discuss how new … mining sector, the lessons learned through this process will act as a guide to inspire and motivate dialogues in other countries." Over the … in ASM countries across the world. Our approach is to foster multi-stakeholder collaboration through dialogue which leads to better …
News, 19 January 2016
IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis presents at the action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania (Photo: Steve Aanu)
'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania
… IIED's second country dialogue in a series of local multi-stakeholder dialogues  on ASM started in Tanzania in September 2016. The dialogue event followed months of intensive research and engagement conducted in collaboration with our national partners, HakiMadini and MTL Consulting . Mining in the East African country is a major and rapidly growing part …
Project, 19 January 2017
Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)
Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining
… For resource-rich developing countries, the mining industry is often one of the biggest drivers of development and … learnt to Tanzania IIED's dialogue approach, centring on active multi-stakeholder participation, is complex and inevitably hits stumbling … outcomes The Learning and Leadership Group (LLG), established to guide the design and implementation of the roadmap, needs government …
Insight, 26 February 2018
Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)
Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?
… Diamond mining is not without controversy. High-profile campaigns in the late … the chance that ASM’s environmental management will be effective.   Engagement and communication are essential. Safeguarding the environment … development potential of diamonds ASM. Without good practice to guide and inspire, it is more difficult to transform unsafe, …
Insight, 03 December 2018
Small-scale miners dig soil mining for tin in Rwanda.
The mining sector searches for sustainability
… sustainable development. But this is what happened in 2002 when the mining sector's big players sought to understand what it meant for … Ten years later, what has changed? In the decade since MMSD, multi-stakeholder initiatives and new guidelines have proliferated. The … Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative have all emerged to guide the sector in the last 10 years. While mining companies have …
Insight, 13 June 2012
An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese
Our previous work on China
… for IIED to go further with partners and find tangible points of engagement on sustainability issues linked to the ' China in the world ' … others) in Africa's informal economy – specifically in agriculture, mining and timber trade in Eastern and Southeast Africa. Read a … approaches to sustainable agriculture in China through case studies, stakeholder meetings and policy advocacy. Read related publications: ' …
Article, 01 August 2019