Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Professionalising Artisanal Mining – Ensuring no Man, or Women, is Left Behind

  • What should be the vision for a sector that is currently highly informal. 

  • Sectoral development means it’s increasingly capitalized and mechanized. How are these impacting women?  

  • What does successful livelihood diversification look like? 

  • Cash for development is coming from overseas and accelerating sectoral transformation – adverse social, governance and environmental impacts are affecting women more. What can be done? 

  • How is the digitization of value chains affecting women and men artisanal and small-scale miners? 


Tuesday 06 February 15:35 - 16:20 CTICC

Sustainability Series

Add to calendar 02/06/2024 15:35 02/06/2024 16:20 Professionalising Artisanal Mining – Ensuring no Man, or Women, is Left Behind A major driver for employment (48+million people) artisanal and small-scale mining constitutes the second largest livelihood after agriculture. By investing in formalising and professionalising the sector working conditions and incomes can be improved – such investment, however, risks leaving some of the most vulnerable people behind.  CTICC Europe/London
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