Perception of Small-Scale Miners on Interventions to Eradicate Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

Wireko-Gyebi, Rejoice Selorm; Asibey, Michael Osei; Amponsah, Owusu; King, Rudith Sylvana; Braimah, Imoro; Darko, Godfred; Lykke, Anne Mette

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“…Following an interest in introducing appropriate governance in ASM, the Ethiopian ASM formalization strategy was developed in accordance with a pre‐context guideline developed by the international Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development (IGF, 2017). And the latest study conducted by Wireko‐Gyebi et al (2020) on managing ASM also found agreement with the IGF's proposed “three‐phase of developing an ASM management strategy.” However, both proposed development models require the identification of stakeholders in the sector at the beginning of the development process. That can be difficult because only with the help of sector elements, the connections between partners across the sector can be mapped to identify the stakeholders.…”

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Competency oriented management for sustainable artisanal and small‐scale mining sector development in Ethiopia

Hassen

2022

Natural Resources Forum

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The continued decline of artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) sector gold supply through the legal scheme in Ethiopia reflects sector management framework failure. The current result‐based management framework tends to focus on monitoring and tracking mining activities with the main objective of collecting revenue, and it has been demonstrated to be a bad approach. Therefore, this study proposed a competency‐oriented sector management framework. The concept behind the proposed framework revolves around identifying sector elements that help define appropriate sector structure, institutions, processes, and organizational interlinks where a subtle balance between economic, social, and environmental aspects of the ASM sector is maintained. To identify the elements, the research follows two‐step analysis approaches. First, the study conducted a problem analysis in the ASM in Ethiopia and identified key sectorial challenges from literature and the perceptions, opinions, and beliefs of stakeholders through individual interviews and focused group discussion in a semi‐structured context. From collected resources, initial codes were generated, and then themes were identified from the codes. The identified ASM sector themes/elements are governance in ASM, community development, methodological advancement, technology transfer, and environmental conservation. The study discusses the scope and the source through which the elements have been defined. Established sector elements are employed to perform a gap analysis of the legal and organizational structures of the sector's institutional framework. And the assessment found there is a serious mismatch between sector elements and sector institutional formation, where the study found sector planning, monitoring, and evaluation lack to encompass social and environmental aspects of the sector. Therefore, the study recommends rewiring the current sector management where sector competencies gain representation in the ASM institutional formation. This will facilitate a clear sector evaluation and establish a sense of accountability in sector management.

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Competency oriented management for sustainable artisanal and small‐scale mining sector development in Ethiopia

Hassen

2022

Natural Resources Forum

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“…Artisanal goldminers, in this case are liable for their own health-care due to the nature of their occupation. Despite these evidences, most studies have focused on unsafe health, safety and environmental practices and its impacts (see Bansah et al., 2018 ; Lynas, 2018 ; Stewart, 2019 ; Wireko-Gyebi et al., 2020 ), risk perception (see Adeyemi and Olagunju, 2017 ; Antabe et al., 2017 ; Nunfam et al., 2019 ; Fadlallah et al., 2020 ) and economic impacts of artisanal mining (see Orleans-Boham et al., 2020 ; Zolnikov, 2020 ; Baffour-Kyei et al., 2021 ). No study, however, has investigated the complexities in self-care culture and how to improve it in the sector.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing the effect of working conditions on routine medical checkup among artisanal goldminers in Ghana

Aram

2021

Heliyon

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The socio-economic impacts of unforeseen health challenges among mine workers cannot be overemphasized. Due to the nature of artisanal mining in Ghana, workers are responsible for their own health care. This, however, necessitates the need for insight into the dynamics of self-care among artisanal miners. A cross-sectional survey of 500 artisanal gold miners was conducted to explore the relationship between working conditions of artisanal miners and voluntarily going for routine medical checkup, even in the absence of the right support systems, using a nested binary logistic regression. All the working condition variables were robust in predicting routine medical checkup in all three models. In this case, goldminers who reported good health, safety and environmental conditions were more likely to go for routine medical checkup as compared to their co-workers who reported poor health, safety and environmental conditions. Contrariwise, miners who reported good economic conditions were less likely to go for routine medical checkup as compared to their counterparts who reported poor economic conditions. Also, routine medical checkup was less likely among artisanal miners who did not protect themselves at work and had experienced work related health challenges. For the compositional factors, miners who had senior high school education were more likely to go for routine medical checkup as compared to those with no formal education. Likewise, older miners were more probable to go for routine medical checkup as compared to their younger counterparts. At the contextual level, miners who worked on shift regime and miners who worked in non-production departments were more likely to go for routine medical checkup. The outcome of this study provides insight into the dynamics of self-care amongst artisanal miners and how best to possibly improve it in an attempt to maintain a healthy workforce and its cascading effects. To increase consciousness of self-health care in artisanal mining, there is the need for a national dialogue on how to improve the working conditions of artisanal miners in Ghana.

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“…The proliferation of artisanal small-scale mining in Ghana, coupled with its environmental impacts, especially on water bodies has compelled (responded to media report) the Government of Ghana to ban all artisanal smallscale mining (ASM) activities in the country from March 2017 [3]. This culminated in the setting up of Operation Vanguard, the largest centralised military-police joint task force to combat artisanal small-scale mining.…”

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“…This ban lasted for almost two years and was lifted in December 2018 [4]. The ban was intended to promote environmental sustainability while the government takes steps to provide sustainable health and environmentally-friendly artisanal small-scale mining in Ghana [3]. However, the ban affected livelihood of the people in the district [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluative Study of River Birim in Denkyembuor, Ghana, Using Water Quality Indices

Samlafo

Adakwah

2021

CSIJ

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Aim: To evaluate water quality of the river Birim after a two-year ban as a result of illegal mining activities in the catchment areas of the river. Methodology: Samples were taken during wet and dry seasons in acid-washed plastic containers. Two water quality indices were adapted for the river under study and used in the evaluation. These were Water Quality Index (WQI) and Heavy Metal Pollution Index (HPI). Twelve physicochemical parameters, such as pH, turbidity, conductivity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, total hardness, alkalinity, sulphate, phosphate, nitrate, Fluoride, and chloride which were life-threatening and generally acceptable in water quality were used to evaluate the water quality index. The computed WQI was 439.168, which fell within the unfit for drinking category with turbidity and total suspended solids positively influencing the index. Iron, (Fe), As, Mn, and Hg were used to evaluate HPI, with an index value of 39.49, which was excellent considering a critical value of 100 set, below which the water is fit for good drinking water. Conclusion: Except for heavy metal pollution, the river Birim is unfit for drinking without chemical treatment and that, the two-year ban on artisanal small-scale mining was not enough for the river to recover fully from previous pollution episodes and hence did not have any impact on water quality of the river Birim.

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Perception of Small-Scale Miners on Interventions to Eradicate Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Competency oriented management for sustainable artisanal and small‐scale mining sector development in Ethiopia

Competency oriented management for sustainable artisanal and small‐scale mining sector development in Ethiopia

Assessing the effect of working conditions on routine medical checkup among artisanal goldminers in Ghana

Evaluative Study of River Birim in Denkyembuor, Ghana, Using Water Quality Indices

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