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Fitsum Weldegiorgis

Fitsum Weldegiorgis was a senior researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group until March 2019

Fitsum Weldegiorgis is an economist, with research and project interests on sustainable human development effects of economic activities; applying socio-economic theory and modelling to analyse impacts and influence policy and practice reform.
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Expertise

Development economics; socioeconomic impact assessment; economic linkages and diversification; extractive resources governance; mining and resettlement (relocation, livelihood restoration and economic development planning).

Before IIED

Research officer, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia.

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Languages: English, Tigrignia (native), Amharic, Arabic (basic)

Fitsum Weldegiorgis's projects

Working in shifts, an artisanal and small-scale miner in the Western region of Ghana relaxes at the top of a 15m mine shaft reinforced with a wooden 'cage' after several hours of digging (Photo: James McQuilken (@James_McQuilken/j.mcquilken@surrey.ac.uk))

Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Project, Jul 2016
Artisanal and small-scale mining accounts for 20 per cent of world gold production (Photo: Travis Lupick, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Delivering solutions through multi-stakeholder dialogue

Project, Feb 2015
Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)

Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Project, Jan 2014
Manganese mining in Gabon (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)

Project, Mar 2009

Recent publications

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Action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Tanzania

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Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Challenges and opportunities for greater participation

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Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A review of key numbers and issues

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Informing dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania. A thematic review of challenges and solutions

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ASM dialogue programme: IIED scoping mission in Tanzania

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Fitsum Weldegiorgis's blog posts

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

Blog, Feb 2018
Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)

Six steps forward for African mining

Blog, Mar 2017
Artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar show the dynamic nature of the sector (Photo: Fitsum Weldegiorgis/IIED)

Talking sustainable development in the troubled world of ASM

Blog, Oct 2016
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