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Mining
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Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector
The mining sector is booming in many countries across the global South. Governments, communities and civil society organisations are mobilising to reshape the landscape of mineral extraction in diverse ways. IIED’s legal tools team is promoting citizen agency in the mining sector through policy analysis, action research and socio-legal empowerment work
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Scaling up CRAFT and Fairmined initiatives for responsible gold in Honduras
IIED is working with the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) and other organisations to prepare stakeholders in Honduras’ artisanal and small-scale mining sector to implement the European Union regulation on conflict minerals, improve practices within mineral supply chains and improve the livelihoods of artisanal and small-scale miners through responsible gold production
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Mining cobalt better
While the post-COVID-19 world looks at ‘building back better’, little has changed for artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over the last 12 months, IIED’s research in partnership with Afrewatch DRC has found nascent efforts to improve the sector to be at risk of creating “islands of responsibility” while failing to drive the broad based societal and environmental change envisaged by the ‘building back better’ agenda
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Mapping community development requirements in the mining sector
A catalogue of community development laws related to the mining sector has been created featuring legislative arrangements from 54 countries. All legislation can be searched in a map and is available for download
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New collection of community development laws for the mining sector launched
IIED, SDSG and CCSI have collected community development laws and agreements for the mining sector from more than 50 countries to encourage better research and policy
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Partnerships and collaboration for a more responsible minerals sector
Transitioning to a more sustainable and inclusive economy that will deliver the Sustainable Development Goals requires increased consideration of the social and environmental impacts of supply chains. Mineral supply chains have particularly significant impacts, both on the environment and on the conditions of workers in these supply chains. IIED's work on sustainable mineral markets targets government and private sector policymaking to ensure a focus on inclusion and equality
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Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip
International investment law and investor dispute arbitration too often fail to notice the concerns of local actors. Guest blogger Nicolás Perrone argues that governance of these international mechanisms needs to take a more holistic, development-based view of the issues
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Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind
Following a recent visit to California, Colombia, Jimena Sierra and Brendan Schwartz discuss the impact of the government’s push to promote large-scale mining on artisanal and small-scale gold miners
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Mali’s new mining law: an improvement, but fails artisanal miners
Mali’s long-awaited mining reforms are here. A mix of progressive and outdated measures, the code must pass parliamentary review before entering into law. We assess the significance of three aspects of the legislation
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Why procurement should be the "next frontier" in transparency for mining
Mine sites often spend more on obtaining goods and services – hundreds of millions of dollars a year – than anything else. Jeff Geipel says this procurement needs better data and transparency, but it has the potential to become a lever for economic and social development.
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Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?
Millions of people in some of the world’s poorest countries depend on diamond mining for a living. Yet a focus on dealing with so-called ‘blood diamonds’ stops a wider conversation about how to help these people thrive
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IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day
IIED will host its third 'digital day' dedicated to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) on 15 March 2018, connecting mining stakeholders across the globe
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Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining
Fitsum Weldegiorgis shares challenges and successes from IIED's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogues in Ghana, Madagascar and most recently in Tanzania
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Four lessons on communicating ASM stories of change
The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has many problems – and good stories are not often heard. Gabriela Flores looks at how effective communications can help mining communities learn about good practices that are being developed by their peers
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In pictures: Dialogues and pilot projects for better ASM governance in Madagascar
A pictorial tour of efforts to improve the governance of Madagascar's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector
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Dialogues et projets pilotes pour une meilleure gouvernance du secteur EMAPE à Madagascar
GIZ à Madagascar a engagé un processus de dialogue afin d'améliorer la gouvernance du secteur de l'exploitation minière artisanale et à petite échelle (EMAPE). Blogueur invité Andry Rabemanantsoa nous donne un aperçu de leur travail à ce jour au travers de ces images
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'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania
IIED's second country dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) took place in Geita, Tanzania, in November 2017. The four-day event brought together around 90 participants, including miners, government officials and representatives from large mining companies and civil society organisations
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New voices: Ghanaian miners, students and civil society representatives talk about ASM
Participants at a dialogue event held in Ghana in early 2016 included mineworkers, small mine owners, students and other community members. They shared with IIED their thoughts about the event and what they had learned about the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector during the four days of the dialogue
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Talking sustainable development in the troubled world of ASM
Fitsum Weldegiorgis explores how artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) can make a positive contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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ASM dialogue creates ambition for change in Ghana
A dialogue in Ghana presented a unique opportunity to bring stakeholders together and find solutions to realise the potential of small-scale mining
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Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
With an engaged government, private sector and multi-stakeholder engagements already in place with artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) communities, Ghana provides an excellent opportunity for a dialogue that delivers solutions to the challenges facing the ASM sector
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Mining for common ground: putting biodiversity on South African mining companies' agendas
South African civil society groups, mining companies and the government have come together to draft guidelines to help mining companies work in a biodiverse environment. The process of developing a set of practical guidelines on managing biodiversity has laid the foundation for change
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Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?
An IIED dialogue with small-scale mining communities discovered women see mining as a source of hope – but that their dreams are seldom realised
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Talking mining in Ghana
Stakeholders from Ghana's artisanal mining communities will share their perspectives in discussions to identify how to improve the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in the country
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A day of sharing ASM knowledge
Throughout Thursday, June 25, IIED created an online space for dialogue and sharing knowledge and information about the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector
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Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on artisanal and small-scale mining
With support from the Ford Foundation, IIED is undertaking a robust research and engagement programme, including the convening of a 'visioning workshop' on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), to lay the foundations for a multi-stakeholder dialogue series on ASM
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Illustrating the ASM challenges
A new image explores the world of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), drawing on interviews with different stakeholders, IIED's own experience of the sector, and our research
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Gold mining: the search for common ground
To better understand the wide range of people who depend on gold mining, IIED travelled to Tanzania to talk to some of them. Here are some of their stories
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Picturing the ASM space
Involving a wide range of stakeholders is helping create a common understanding of the issues in addressing artisanal and small-scale mining. Matthew McKernan looks at how IIED’s 'visioning workshop' has helped shape priorities going forward
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Waking the lazy, sleepy giant
A two-day 'visioning workshop' on artisanal and small-scale mining generated a shared sense of optimism – and a vision to wake up the 'big lazy, sleeping giant" that is government
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Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector
Not enough has been heard from local voices in the mining sector over the last 10 years. In the next year, this needs to change.
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Delivering solutions through multi-stakeholder dialogue
IIED's dialogue series has been designed to address the global coordination and knowledge gaps that exist in the artisanal and small–scale mining (ASM) sector
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Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
Artisanal and small-scale miners informally produce 15-20 per cent of the world's gold and 80 per cent of its sapphires. Yet the sector faces complex problems. IIED and its partners have published two papers on the risks
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Transparency: Giving local communities a window on the extractive industries
Why transparency initiatives need to be more inclusive and relevant to local needs for communities most affected by oil, gas or mining projects
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Building bridges between the money and the many in mining
Abbi Buxton reports on efforts to overcome distrust and conflict between artisanal and large-scale mining operations, through an international project that will bring the two sides together to seek sustainable ways to coexist.
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Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining sector
IIED's dialogue programme for the artisanal and small-scale mining sector allows stakeholders to collaborate to empower miners, improve governance and deliver a more secure working environment
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Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
The world is finally waking up to the need for transparency in business deals. New EU transparency legislation was announced earlier this month and next month transparency will be a major theme at the G8 summit. This week the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has its bi-annual conference, and the UK and France have just announced they will join the initiative. The big question is can greater transparency help sustainable development?
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Study shows how to improve Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
An international effort to ensure good governance of natural resources could do more to improve accountability and sustainability, according to research in the oil- and gas-rich Caspian Sea Region that IIED has published today.
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IIED shines a light on small-scale mining
Small-scale and artisanal mining — a sector that governments and development agencies often see as only as a problem — could be a source of sustainable livelihoods for millions of marginalised people, say researchers at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
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Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos
Political and business leaders gathering in Davos will discuss ‘resilient dynamism’, but their distrust of informal economies is a missed opportunity.
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African land solutions: making the resource blessing a reality
Lessons need to be learned to transform the African ‘resource curse’ into a ‘resource blessing’ and to mitigate against the negative impacts of large land-based investments on the continent.
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Mining: Implementing sustainability needs new perspective
When stakeholders at IIED's Fair Ideas conference in Rio discussed how the mining industry has fared in meeting the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development initiative (MMSD) agenda set 10 years ago, the challenge of implementation kept cropping up.
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The mining sector searches for sustainability
It is rare for a controversial industry to engage with its critics, seek advice and pledge positive action for sustainable development.
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Mining's search for sustainability: how far have we come?
Ten years ago, the mining industry, in collaboration with the IIED, set out to explore how it could maximise its contribution to sustainable development through the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project. So, what has happened since then? Where are we now?
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Mining: Big progress but new challenges as sector searches for sustainability
The mining and minerals industry has made major advances towards sustainability but the sector faces new challenges as governments in the global South reassert control over their natural resources yet lack the capacity to ensure mining can contribute to sustainable development.
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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "No more hanky panky"
A global initiative requiring public reporting of revenues from extractive industries could go further
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Fairtrade and formalisation for small-scale miners
The world's first Fairtrade and Fairmined gold is launched in the UK to help formalise the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector. But is formalisation the best way forward?
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Was 'Avatar' good for indigenous people?
The Dongria Kondh, Xikrin Kayapo, and Penan peoples have a lot in common. Not only are they all indigenous groups facing potentially damaging extractive and energy projects on their tribal land, they also share the dubious distinction of being compared to some quirky blue hominids from a certain Hollywood blockbuster. Just a casual Google search for ‘real life avatar’ will reveal a slew of articles arguing that indigenous groups across the world are nothing less than the real life versions of the Na´vi, with harmonious relationships with nature and exotic tribal costumes to boot.
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Fairtrade – the gold standard?
Now that Fairtrade has proved its resilience to recession is it time to make it the gold standard for all ethical produce and move beyond its origins in agriculture? Is the certification scheme that circumvents traditional market and pricing dynamics ready for new challenges in new markets? If so, what will those challenges look like?
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A meeting of mines
Bringing together small-scale miners and globalised mining operations could help to find solutions for many of the ills affecting artisanal miners worldwide
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Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD) was a research project looking at how the mining and minerals sector could contribute to the global transition to sustainable development. This page collates all the material previously available from 'iied.org/mmsd'. All project documents, including the MMSD Working paper Series, final reports, regional reports, project bulletins and workshop notes are available for free download.
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Mining and community development framework for Kosovo
IIED collaborated with Riinvest Institute in Pristina, Kosovo, in a World Bank-funded project to develop a community development framework and community development guidelines
