Capacity building for self-regulation of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) sector: A policy paradigm shift aligned with development outcomes and a pro-poor approach

Mutemeri, N.; Walker, Joshua Z.; Coulson, Nancy; Watson, Ingrid

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2016.05.002

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“…4. The research on, and policy recommendations for, formalizing ASM are sizable and we cannot do them justice here, but for an overview see Mutemeri et al (2016) and Hilson and McQuilken (2014). 5.…”

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Gendering women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining: an introduction

Buss

Rutherford

2020

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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Until recently, women were largely invisible as miners within the array of initiatives, laws and policies seeking to regulate mining in sub-Saharan Africa. This invisibility is beginning to change as gender and women are increasingly referenced in mining reform initiatives. In this paper, we provide an overview of extant research on gender and women's livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), mostly of precious or high-value minerals, and some of the gaps that the papers assembled in this special issue address. This introductory paper also seeks to frame the special issue by questioning the forms of visibility of "women in mining" in policy and scholarly work. Knowledge claims about women and their mining work need to be emplaced within wider presumptions, power relations and political economies at various scales. Gender, we argue, provides an important analytical and methodological lens to critically consider the materialization of "women" in relation to ASM.

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Gendering women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining: an introduction

Buss

Rutherford

2020

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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“…This finding is consistent with literature elsewhere in the world (Labonne, ). More than two decades on from the Yaoundé Vision, livelihood policies do not align with development dialogue on artisanal mining and local economic development, as stipulated in the Yaoundé Vision Statement (Mutemeri et al ., ). There is substantial literature on ALPs, poverty, and artisanal mining in sub‐Saharan Africa, indicating that the inducement arrangements of ALPs have many things in common with the development dialogue on artisanal miners, yet the programmes are perceived to be precarious work by the local population (Hilson, ).…”

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“…Legal regimes based on the development dialogue on artisanal miners have not been successful in Africa (Mutemeri et al, 2016). The failure of the present legal regime to deal with the destructive impact of artisanal miners and enhance development results is at the core of this fiasco (Debrah et al, 2014).…”

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“…Policy development affecting artisanal miners thus shifted from mining connoisseurs’ domination in 2003 in Yaoundé, Cameroon (Buxton, ). Additionally, many legal regimes in Africa had gone through reforms to reflect the new trend in developmental dialogue on artisanal miners in order to permit artisanal mining operations (Verbrugge, ; Mutemeri et al ., ), despite their supposed relationship with environmental degradation (Hilson and McQuilken, ).…”

Section: International Dialogue On Artisanal Miningmentioning

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Precarious work or sustainable livelihoods? Aligning Prestea's Programme with the development dialogue on artisanal and small‐scale mining

Adonteng‐Kissi

Adonteng-Kissi

2018

Natural Resources Forum

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Alternative livelihoods programmes (ALPs) are extensively executed in mining communities, often as models of development dialogue on artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM). This paper assesses whether Prestea's ALP aligns with the development dialogue on artisanal mining. The conceptual design of ALP in Ghana's Prestea is based on the notions of substitution, homogenous community, and impact scalability. This paper argues that the Prestea ALP is not aligned with the development dialogue on artisanal mining, and therefore it is difficult to understand the role and function of environmentally‐damaging behaviours within livelihood strategies. The paper contends that it would be appropriate to concentrate on improving the existing artisanal miners’ operation of those most susceptible to resource access restrictions. Further, it may be more prudent to utilize livelihood‐centered interventions that create strong connections with sustainable development as a way of creating regular community engagements. Additionally, this paper argues that the term for the intervention programme on artisanal mining should be replaced with the broader term ‘livelihood‐centered intervention’. The replacement of the term ‘ALP’ avoids the tacit belief that ALP can adequately replace artisanal mining operations. Livelihood‐centered intervention should not necessarily utilize alternative livelihoods as direct behavioural change instruments.

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“…The upsurge of ASGM across sub-Saharan Africa involving a wide variety of 'labour intensive activities without mechanisation' (Weng et al, 2015) has led to wide-ranging debates about the ways in which poverty-driven gold mining fitsor remains invisiblewithin academic discourses on rural livelihoods and development Huggins, Buss, & Rutherford, 2017;Mutemeri, Walker, Coulson, & Watson, 2016). Hilson, Hilson, Maconachie, McQuilken, and Goumandakoye (2017) argue that a general failure of policy-makers as well as researchers to engage closely with the concerns of ASGM-dependent communities has led to a severe lack of state support measures for regulating ASGM and a poor understanding of small-scale mining/smallholder farming linkages in Africa.…”

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Artisanal Gold Mining and Farming: Livelihood Linkages and Labour Dynamics after Land Reforms in Zimbabwe

Mkodzongi¹,

Spiegel

2018

The Journal of Development Studies

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While the rural development consequences of Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme have been heavily debated, there is a dearth of literature focusing on the post-land reform interrelations between artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and farming. This article discusses the growing ASGM sector, encapsulated by the phrase 'mari yaputika'/'gold has detonated', examining the impacts of 'liberating' mineral resources in farming areas previously inaccessible to the rural poor. Drawing on research in Mhondoro Ngezi District, we argue for more subtle understandings of smallholder farming/ASGM linkages in relation to changing labour and class dynamics, challenging accounts that under-recognise the multifaceted interconnectedness of artisanal mining and farming.

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Capacity building for self-regulation of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) sector: A policy paradigm shift aligned with development outcomes and a pro-poor approach

Cited by 18 publications

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Gendering women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining: an introduction

Gendering women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining: an introduction

Precarious work or sustainable livelihoods? Aligning Prestea's Programme with the development dialogue on artisanal and small‐scale mining

Artisanal Gold Mining and Farming: Livelihood Linkages and Labour Dynamics after Land Reforms in Zimbabwe

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