Overview
The programme aims to enhance the competitiveness and income of artisanal and small-scale enterprises in mining and mineral processing, while promoting inclusive and sustainable minerals value chains.
Activities of the programme include:
- Enabling environment: supporting politicies and institutions, geological and mineral information, digitization
- Artisanal and small-scale mining: suporting organization and formorlization of ASM, strengthening environmental, social, governance (ESG) and safety practices in ASM, empowering women in artisanal mining
- Business and value chain development: enhancing entrepreneurship and business development
- Value addition and low-carbon materials: building skills for value-addition to Development Minerals, innovation in low-carbon and environmentally friendly construction materials
- Knowledge creation and sharing: research and evidence base, knowledge exchange between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
- African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC): Strengthening the institutional capacity of AMDC
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Key information
- Start date
2015
- End date
2026
- Target group(s)
Government institutions; Companies; Smallholders and cooperatives; Workers; Local communities
- Sector(s)
Energy and extractives
- Type of initiative
Country level
- Countries of intervention
Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cabo Verde; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Congo; Cook Islands; Côte d’Ivoire; Cuba; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Eswatini; Ethiopia; Fiji; Gabon; The Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Jamaica; Kenya; Kiribati; Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Micronesia; Mozambique; Namibia; Nauru; Niger; Nigeria; Niue; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Rwanda; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; São Tomé and Príncipe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Solomon Islands; South Africa; Sudan; Suriname; Tanzania; Togo; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tuvalu; Uganda; Vanuatu; Zambia; Zimbabwe
- Type(s) of support
Information & guidance on due diligence; Tools for risk assessment & reporting; Capacity building & training; Impact investment & financing; Support to regulatory environment; Promotion of transparency & advocacy
- Type(s) of contributor
EU institution
- Contributor(s)
European Union (DG INTPA)
- Implementing organisation(s)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)