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  • Gender and Gold Mining: The Case of the Maroons of Suriname

    Small-scale gold mining is attractive to people who are poor and have limited access to the formal labor market. Women, who make up a substantial proportion of the world's poor and marginalized, participate substantially in gold mining. The United Nations has estimated that 10-50% of the world population of small-scale miners are women (UN 1996).

  • Creative Capacity Building to Address Gender-Based ...

    gender, resulting in economic harm to artisanal and small-scale women miners. STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT The framework devised for the gender analysis is laid out in the following section, including domains and criteria for analysis. The methodology section also contains background research, primary sources, and data collection instruments.

  • Gender Issues in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining ...

    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 gold and ...

  • Women and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM)

    and artisanal mining: Gender roles and the road ahead, in Gavin Hilson (ed) Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Developing Countries, Lisse: A.A. Balkema Publishers, pp. 161–204. International Labor Organization, (1999), Social and La-bour Issues in Small-Scale Mines. Report for Discussion

  • (PDF) Challenging masculinities? The experiences of women ...

    However, the rate of women's assimilation into small-scale mining has been witnessed at a faster pace than in large-scale mining. About 30% of the artisanal miners in the world are women and the majority are in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Hinton, Veiga, and Beinhoff, 2003; ILO, 1999; Amankwah and Anim-Sackey 2003).

  • Creative Capacity Building to Address Gender-Based ...

    Creative Capacity Building to Address Gender-Based Violence in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector in Colombia. Introduction. The United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Environments (RISE) Challenge was created to fund interventions that prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) across …

  • global gender roles in small scale mining

    Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Central . Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) on the African continent is increasingly the focus of global, regional and national efforts aimed at regulating the sector as part of larger initiatives to increase national benefits from mining, while also addressing problems seen as linked to this form of mining such as violence and ...

  • Gender-responsive due diligence in artisanal and small ...

    Gender-responsive due diligence in artisanal and small-scale mining is a must. 26 November 2019. At the IGF-AGM forum on mineral supply chains in Geneva in October, Women's Rights and Mining hosted a well-attended side meeting on the need for gender-responsive due diligence in the mining sector. Solidaridad's senior policy advisor and gold ...

  • The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale ...

    The purpose of this book is to examine both the positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries. In recent years, a number of governments have attempted to formalize this rudimentary sector of industry, recognizing its socioeconomic importance. However, the industry continues to be plagued by

  • The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale ...

    The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries. G.M. Hilson. CRC Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Technology & Engineering - 766 pages. 0 Reviews. The purpose of this book is to examine both the positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries. In recent years, a ...

  • Gendered and embodied legacies: Mercury's afterlife in ...

    This paper introduces a gender angle to the growing body of literature on the legacies of mining. It shows that gender-selective roles in informal artisanal and small-scale mining expose women's bodies to the worst health effects. These are then transmitted …

  • global gender roles in small scale mining

    Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the Road Ahead2.37 Мб. This chapter intends to explore existing and evolving gender3 roles of women in artisanal mining communities, and provides a rationale and strategy forHentschel, T., Hrushka, F., and Priester, M., 2002, Global Report on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining, Summary Report commissioned by MMSD...

  • Central Africa | The Consortium on Gender, Security and ...

    Much research on gender and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has tended to focus on describing the different roles women undertake in mining, while there has been less attention to how gender relations are constructed, reinforced and challenged in and through ASM.

  • Women in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Africa ...

    ABSTRACT. Women's direct participation in artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) varies throughout the world. This chapter intends to explore these issues within Africa. It provides the evolving gender roles of women in African ASM communities, the impacts of ASM on women miners and factors exacerbating and mitigating inequities in power, the ...

  • Transformining Customary System in Ghana: Women's ...

    small-scale gold mining activities in Ghana produce opportunities and challenges for them. In the context of women's work in the Talensi small-scale gold mining industry in Ghana, I investigate: 1) the intersection between women's expected socio-economic roles in the mining activities and

  • (PDF) Motivation and Challenges Facing Employers in ...

    Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises' (MSMEs) Participation in Peacebuilding: Motivators and Barriers. By International Journal of Engineering and Management Research and Dr. Mark P. Doblas. Prospects of Hyperloop Transportation Technology: A Case of China. By MD A B D U R ROB.

  • Freedom in the Making Food Sovereignty and Small Farmer ...

    The chapter invokes political ecological notions of metabolism and vulnerability to look at tourism, sand mining, home constrain farm communities and food production. I work to establish the roles and size of the small farmer cadre, landless workers, and women farmers, their class and sectorial relationships to the economy and development of FS.

  • A social relations of gender analysis of artisanal and ...

    Much research on gender and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has tended to focus on describing the different roles women undertake in mining, while there has been less atten-tion to how gender relations are constructed, reinforced and challenged in …

  • Recognizing Women's Contributions and Challenges in ...

    Hence, small-scale mining programs and support services should support women's role in ASGM. To improve the conditions that women in small-scale mining communities experience, the government should enact policies that support ASGM in general and recognize the role of women and ensure that women are included in government planning.

  • Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Central and ...

    Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) on the African continent is increasingly the focus of global, regional and national efforts aimed at regulating the sector as part of larger initiatives to increase national benefits from mining, while also addressing problems seen as linked to this form of mining such as violence and conflict.

  • CiteSeerX — Gender in ASM Livelihood Issues and Concerns ...

    CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): The global trend of informalisation of women's work is also evident in what is commonly known as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) practices. Women constitute a large segment of workers in the informal mines and quarries all over the world, working as cutters, diggers, sievers, panners, crushers, processors and ...

  • Gender Safeguards for the Kimberley Process

    mining has decreased, with small-scale and Large-scale Mining (LSM) operations ex-panding. From a legal point of view, there are equal rights for women to work in the Sierra Leonean diamond mining sector and it is possible for women to have diamond mining licenses. Despite this, ASDM is a majority-male sector and few women are gen-

  • Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the Road …

    Chapter 11 – book: The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries Ed. G. Hilson, Pub. A.A. Balkema, Swets Publishers, Netherlands, 2003 Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the Road Ahead Jennifer J. Hinton1, Marcello M. Veiga2, Christian Beinhoff2 1.

  • "If you don't find anything, you can't eat" - Mining ...

    Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) continues to grow as a viable economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa. The health and environmental impacts of the industry, notably linked to the use of potentially toxic chemicals, has been well documented. What has not been explored to the same extent is how …

  • CiteSeerX — Ch. 11- The Socio-Economic Impacts of ...

    BibTeX @MISC{Hinton_ch.11-, author = {Jennifer J. Hinton and Marcello M. Veiga and Christian Beinhoff}, title = {Ch. 11- The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the Road Ahead}, year = {}}

  • Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Mining - KIT Royal ...

    The study was performed in nine municipalities of three departments of Colombia, where coal and gold artisanal and small-scale mining is carried out: Boyacá, Antioquia and Cauca. 513 miners – men and women who engage in various forms of mining activities – also took part in the study. The work shows that the gender gap is a reality in the mining world, which has traditionally involved men ...

  • Women's Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities in Small ...

    Small-scale gold mining is the primary livelihood of the Indigenous Peoples, specifically the Ibaloi's and Kankana-eys of Loacan, Itogon, Benguet. Mining is a part of their community life, providing the major means of livelihood for the people including women and children. This study documented the contextualized experiences of women in the community, specifically their vital roles, …