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Development of National Action Plans (NAPs) for Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an obligation under Article 7 of the Minamata Convention on Mercury for each country that determines that ASGM in its territory is more than insignificant.

Morgane Fritz, James McQuilken, Nina Collins, Fitsum Weldegiorgis

IIED, IISD, IGF, January 2018

Xiaoxue Weng, Lila Buckley, Emma Blackmore, Bill Vorley, George Schoneveld, Paolo O. Cerutti, Davison Gumbo, Kaala B. Moombe, Stephen Kabwe, Jaqueline Muzenda, Kingstone Mujeyi, Maisory Chacha, Maria Njau, Jesper Jønsson 

IIED, June 2018

Fitsum Weldegiorgis, Lynda Lawson, Hannelore Verbrugge

IIED, IISD, IGF 2018

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Alianza por la Minería Responsable 

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This interactive guide synthesizes and connects existing information on mercury-free practices in the ASGM sector through simple graphs, videos and illustrative success stories.

Collecting field data is often necessary to prepare the national Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector overview. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR) has developed a mobile data collection tool to accompany the two methodologies developed by the Artisanal Gold Council (baseline estimates) and UNITAR (socio-economic research methodology).

 Dr Maria Laura Barreto, Patrick Schein, Dr Jennifer Hinton, Felix Hruschka, January 2018

Willison Mutagwaba, John Bosco Tindyebwa, Veronica Makanta,, Delphinus Kaballega and Graham Maeda

IIED, January 2018

This handbook is the result of a training workshop for staff from the geological survey authorities, the regulatory agencies and the universities involved in the ASM sector to strengthen their capacity to better assist the country's ASM operators. It is intended to serve as a reference for the future involvement of the geological survey authority's staff in the country's ASM sector.

This handbook is the result of a training workshop for staff from the geological survey authorities, the regulatory agencies and the universities involved in the ASM sector to strengthen their capacity to better assist the country's ASM operators. It is intended to serve as a reference for the future involvement of the geological survey authority's staff in the country's ASM sector

This handbook is the result of a training workshop for staff from the geological survey authorities, the regulatory agencies and the universities involved in the ASM sector to strengthen their capacity to better assist the country's ASM operators. It is intended to serve as a reference for the future involvement of the geological survey authority's staff in the country's ASM sector.

This handbook is the result of a training workshop for staff from the geological survey authorities, the regulatory agencies and the universities involved in the ASM sector to strengthen their capacity to better assist the country's ASM operators. It is intended to serve as a reference for the future involvement of the geological survey authority's staff in the country's ASM sector.

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Quick start guide to preparing an Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining National Action Plan to fulfill obligations under Article 7 of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

UN Environment Chemicals and Health Branch is developing and populating a databank on chemicals analyses, in particular on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury (Hg).

GLOBAL - MapX UN Environment

As part of UN Environment’s assistance to the countries developing National Action Plans, MapX has developed customized dashboards to support developing countries in managing information related to mercury use and reduction in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector.

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Friends of Nation, May 2017

[ English  /  Swahili ] GLOBAL - UN Environment, UNITAR

The video explains the four worst practices in ASGM. According to the Minamata Convention, each National Action Plan on ASGM must include actions to eliminate them. The video also introduces best practices to reduce and eliminate the use of mercury in ASGM.

GLOBAL - UN Environment, MAPX

A demonstration story map on mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining. See www.mapx.org to access the online story map.

Geographic information management support for artisanal and small-scale gold mining national action plans under the Minamata Convention

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AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development, 2017

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