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IGF Guidance for Governments: Managing artisanal and small-scale mining

This guidance document presents a step-by-step process for governments to develop, implement and monitor an effective artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) management strategy.

By Alec Crawford, Dan Paget, Nicholas Garrett on January 17, 2017

This guidance document presents a step-by-step process for governments to develop, implement and monitor an effective artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) management strategy.

The guidance includes steps on how to ensure effective, inclusive strategy development and implementation, as well as effective governance of the process overall. It encourages the user to focus on the local context, and to continually think about the most practical and feasible ways for a government to achieve its ASM-related sustainable development objectives.

A supplement document for this report is available for download here (16 MB file)

Report details

Topic
Mining
Focus area
Economies
Publisher
IISD
Copyright
IISD, 2017