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To keep updated on postings and events go to www.csrtraininginstitute.com and sign up for the newsletter. If interested the CSR Knowledge Centre http://bit.ly/CSRknowledge contains a series of short, pragmatic articles on CSR Strategy, Management and related areas.
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1. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides livelihoods for many in poverty but is often unsafe, unregulated, and environmentally damaging. It has potential to be transformed into a viable economic activity.
2. Key actors that can drive this transformation include governments, development organizations, the diamond and jewelry industry, and financial institutions. Governments need resources and political will to formalize and professionalize ASM. Development organizations can partner with or supplement governments.
3. Successful partnerships between ASM and large-scale mining companies are possible and necessary, with companies providing expertise, technologies, and support to help ASM operators form cooperatives and run properly as businesses.
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2) Both mining companies and humanitarian organizations have had limited success in reducing poverty and improving living conditions. They should work together more to achieve development goals.
3) Sustainable development presents challenges and opportunities for mining companies. They must decide whether to operate sustainably or risk destroying value by ignoring environmental and social issues. Their approach could help or hinder development in host countries.
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Notes on the Proceedings of the Development Conference
“Enhancing the Developmental Potential of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining”
June 7-8, 2012
World Bank – Washington, DC
Thursday June 7
Setting the Scene
Chair: Gavin Hilson
Panelists: Paulo de Sa, Tim Fella, Dorothée Gizenga,
Discussant: Ian Smillie
Summary
Paulo de Sa describes in his presentation how partnerships may be the key to overcoming existing ASM
challenges. Tim Fella highlights innovative methods that PRADD is using to strengthen ASM property rights.
Dorothée Gizenga notes that in addition to collaboration among governments, the private sector, and civil
society, there must also be strengthen partnership between large scale mining and small scale mining to
promote safer and more efficient mining techniques.
Paulo de Sa
After 15 years of efforts to promote developmental improvements in artisanal mining in 50 countries, the results have
been ineffective piecemeal pilots. ASM rights are often trumped by mechanized companies wanting large scale mining
concessions from governments, which often take half-measures to support the communities that earn their livelihoods
from ASM. Conflict is a potential consequence. This is not fundamentally a mining problem.
Certified supply chains have been a helpful innovation, but partnerships are needed in addressing existing challenges.
Lessons learned to date include:
• One size does not fit all.
• ASMs need recognition and protection of their rights.
• Don’t try to organize what is already organized – work with existing ASM systems; cooperatives could be a
fruitful approach.
• Extension services are required to help ASMs mine more responsibly and effectively.
• Approaches must be anchored in proven methods that deliver financial benefits.
• Partnerships are needed to provide lasting solutions: multistakeholder partnerships are most effective.
• Tripartite platforms (government, private sector, and civil society) seem to provide an adequate approach to the
issue.
Tim Fella
PRADD is the first and largest project of its kind. Its approach to enhancing development in ADM is to clarify and
strengthen rights. There are five challenges in strengthening property rights:
• Competing tenure systems between customary and statutory systems.
• Poor legal protection for ADM mining under customary tenure systems.
• Lack of clarity in surface and sub-surface rights.
• Poor documentation and mapping.
• Overlapping boundaries between adjoining claims.
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The result is conflict, low investment, environmental damage and lack of traceability of diamonds. In short, the result is
the open access problem. PRADD promotes alternative land use, is working to develop microfinance options, and it
promotes mine reclamation, improved resource governance, and conflict resolution.
Dorothée Gizenga
Artisinal mining is a poverty-driven activity with inherent ills, but with potential to be a viable economic activity when
proper investments are made. There are a number of actors that must get involved if ASM is to transform into a positive
global sector that contributes to economic growth around the world. Actors include: governments, the development
community, diamond and jewelry industry, financial institutions, and other industries outside of diamonds and jewelry
(such as construction companies). The point was made during the KP intersessional that governments require resources to
improve ASM. Governments as well as the development community can take similar actions to partner with one another
to provide direct support to mining communities. Furthermore, large mining companies should partner with ASM to
contribute safer and more productive mining techniques.
Friday June 8
Remarks by Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic
The effort that this conference is supporting has added impetus to a critical element in the Kimberley Process (KP). The
appropriate organizations and countries are needed to step forward to relate the improved development of ASM to the KP.
Rule of law and human rights are critical issues at the ground level where the poor earn their living.
Panel 1: Opportunities and constraints for enhancing the development potential from ASM: Views from
Diamond Producing Countries
Chair: Paulo de Sa
Panelists: Fatou Gaye (Guinea), Angola, and DRC
Summary
While ASM is increasing in many African nations, there are still many constraints in the industry involving
technical capacity, land availabilities, and budget limitations. ASM is a very mobile industry. Steps are being
taken to formalize the industry, but most countries still have a long ways to go.
Guinea
Africa produces 60% of the world’s diamonds. In Guinea, 99% of its diamonds are artisanal. Labor is very mobile and
unskilled, but exploitation of the sector should be regularized and reserved for Guinean nationals. Much more work
remains to be done to achieve these objectives.
Angola
The government of Angola passed a new Mining Code in 2009 that has created the conditions for a new juridical
framework to eliminate illicit production. Topographic research is being carried out to identify rich areas in the
municipalities. This includes surveying of the terrain and preparation for licensing. Production will be 630,000 carats per
year. Constraints include a lack of open areas, budget limitations, a lack of buying houses and collectors. Technical
assistance is needed to help find ways to allocate deposits between commercial and artisanal producers.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The government of the DRC liberalized ASM in 1981. This is how the majority of DRC’s production is realized. Diggers
are very mobile and are expected to have a card giving them the right to mine in a specified zone. Buyers are also to be
licensed. DDI has been active in providing assistance. Miners are encouraged to join cooperatives that are expected to
function as enterprises. Child labor must be ended.
Panel 2A: Best practices and lessons learned in preventing environmental damage to, and facilitating
rehabilitation of, artisanal mining sites
Chair: Mariella Canter Weikel
Panelists: Jane Dennison, Cristina Vellegas, Terah De Jong
Discussant: Gary McMahon
Summary
This panel discussed the opportunities that are available to help benefit mining communities. Mining is often
detrimental to the national environment, particularly causing land degradation, reduced water quality, and
biodiversity loss. Additionally, some mining is spilling over into protected conservation areas, including World
Heritage Sites. On the ground technical assistance is the first step actors must take to educate local miners on
how to reduce environmental impacts of mining. Such projects to assist miners must identify complementary
livelihood activities that are beneficial environmentally and economically. They must have community-driven
partnerships and capitalize on individual entrepreneurship.
Jane Dennison: US Department of State
Mercury is a popular tool for artisanal and small scale miners (ASM) because it is a cheap way to extract gold from its
ore. However, mercury used in this way has serious environmental impacts. United Nations Environmental Program
(UNEP) is leading the negotiations on mercury and negotiations are progressing rapidly. Solutions must be anchored in
financial benefits. Miners will give up mercury only for a better extraction method that provides higher gold yields. They
are not motivated by health or environmental concerns. Technical assistance is one important aspect of a solution and the
US is working to establish several training facilities worldwide.
Sustainable compensation is the key to changing behavior:
• Showing miners through demonstration that there are alternatives that are better than mercury at recovering gold.
• Where miners bring their ore to processing plants, trust issues are important regarding allocation of shares.
• Creating the right incentives requires stakeholder participation.
Cristina Villegas: Estelle Levin Ltd. (UK Consulting Firm on Natural Resources)
The project called Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Protected Areas and Critical Ecosystems (ASM-PACE) has found that
ASM is taking place many protected areas such as national parks and World Heritage Sites. Protected areas are vulnerable
to ASM due to the fact that they are seen as virgin territory and because there is a lack of awareness on where the exact
boundaries of the protected areas lie. Furthermore, ASM rates are high in restricted areas because their previous locations
become overcrowded by increased industrial, large-scale mining (LSM). Often times these boundaries are not viewed as
legitimate. This is the open access problem. A final factor is the dislodgment of miners by industrial mining operations as
well as the difficulty for fragile states to implement enforcement strategies. The question for the future debate of
“protected land vs. ASM” can only be answered once we define where we have our priorities.
Possible solutions to ASM-PACE include mobile technology training centers, incentivizing mercury-free gold processes,
and educating young miners not to use mercury.
Terah De Jong: TetraTech Consulting
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ADM has numerous environmental impacts to land degradation, water quality, and biodiversity. To aid in community
development in the CAR, the post mining income-generating environmental rehabilitation (POMIGER) approach of
PRADD has focused on converting old mining pits to fish farms, market gardening and tree farming. Between 2010 and
2011, fish farming projects has grown from 18 to 580 sites. The total amount of degraded land that has been rehabilitated
is 5%. This success can be accredited to the region’s social willingness, overall food insecurity, and the diamond crisis of
2008. This project complemented current livelihoods and gave incentives for increased communication and individual
entrepreneurship. However, POMIGER as a response to environmental degradation is a complex approach.
Gary McMahon: World Bank, Expert on Mining
Conflict and environmental consequences are a key reason why we are here. Some of the bad environmental practices of
ASM are amenable to change. Restoration of mined out pits is an even bigger problem. PRADD is unique in this regard.
Sometimes a transition to safe and sustainable mining is hindered by lack of money, but other times it is primarily
enforcement. Miners typically don’t cooperate.
Panel 2B: Knowledge-building and financing for efficient ASM
Chair: Paulo Mvika
Panelists: Sebastien Pennes, Pete Chirico, Gavin Hilson
Discussant: Chris Sheldon
Summary
This panel highlighted ASM case studies, particularly in CAR and Ghana, for how financing and knowledge
capacity can be increased in order to ensure more effective ASM techniques. Some efforts such as PRADD have
increased legal sales in ASM areas. Satellite image analysis such as Google Earth is an effective tool to
monitor mining areas. In terms of financing, microcredit and microfinance projects in Ghana were met with
several challenges, but there are possible microfinance options that could be an effective way to assist small
scale miners.
Sébastien Pennes
The study of ASM activity in CAR has shown a lack in quality tools available to improve ASM. Because banks don’t
fund mining extraction and the system of insurance has proven inefficient, PRADD aims to provide legal chain of
custody, decrease land chief tax, and create a market for claims. As a result, legal sales have increased by 4.5 times
through PRADD’s project. Other programs, including an equipment rental pool and a microfinance program, are still in
the making.
Pete Chirico
Very little is known about small scale deposits as there is a lack of reliable census/geographical data in ASM areas.
Making available geographic information is key to understanding ASM environments because it is helpful to show map of
thickness of overburden as this will improve mining efficiency. In fact, Google Earth is a cost-effective way to monitor
mining areas and can provoke in-depth field investigations.
Gavin Hilson
Hilson researched microcredit and microfinance in ASM in northern Ghana and found that legalization and formalization
has significant challenges due to poverty traps. Microcredit challenges exisit in that banks are reluctant to finance loans
for quality equipment. The Grameen bank model is a possible option in the way that it would be useful for designing
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collateralized group accountability through borrower participation, absence of subsidies, and substitutes for adequate
collateral.
Panel 3A: Best practices and lessons learned in regards to ASM formalization
Chair: Simon Gilbert
Panelists: Steven Van Bockstael, Bocar Thiam, and Felicien Mbikayi
Discussant: Dorothée Gizenga
Summary
This panel focused on the process of trying to formalize ASM miners. Steven Van Bockstael stated that the
formalization process must be driven by incentives rather than enforcement. Bocar Thiam presented the idea of a
mobile licensing system, as a way to facilitate easier registration access for miners. Felicien Mbikayi described a
successful registration project in the DRC. The overall theme of this panel was that miners want to become
formalized, but that they need to be presented with more resources to achieve this end.
Steven Van Bockstael
It is now a legal requirement to formalize ASM, but the challenge is that formalization carries a small return for small
operators. Licenses are expensive and there is little chance of being caught as an informal miner. Current laws are out of
sync with the reality of ASM. The laws are predicated on the closed access model whereas the reality of ASM is open
access.
Change must be bottom up through existing organizations. Mining Codes treat ASM miners as entrepreneurs, but for the
smallest scale operators the miner is really an employee of the supplier (the middleman). ASM is driven by poverty, de-
agrarianization and multiplex livelihoods. To increase the registration amount of formalized miners, there needs to be a
switch from an enforcement-based approach to an incentive-based approach. Structures for ASM legislation should be
modeled off of already existing, unofficial management structures within the ASM community.
Bocar Thiam
Diamond smuggling is a serious problem in Liberia. Of 100 entry points on the border, only 6 are manned. There should
be an amplified effort to increase the amount of formalized ASMs. This can only happen if the licensing system is
decentralized through a mobile licensing system. The current process requires long commute and high registration fees.
To encourage artisanal miners to formalize, the registration costs should be lowered and the amount of benefits increased.
Felicien Mbikayi
There was mining registration project organized by Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), the DRC government, and
the private sector that allowed miners to register on-site; this project took place when the DRC chaired the Kimberley
Process (KP). At registration, miners were sold mining ID cards at a reduced price (from $25 to $5) and promised some
type of social security benefits. This registration process resulted in over 100,000 newly registered diggers, miners, and
negotiators. The project was limited by the countries lack of qualified registering personnel and by the public’s
unwillingness to show registers their personal identification cards (the only ID cards in the DRC are voter ID cards and
the public was suspicious). To counter the suspicion, the project launched awareness campaigns.
Dorothée Gizenga (discussant)
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Formalization is too costly, but informality costs miners even more money than formality because of harassment and
informal taxation. Everyone wants to become legal but they are restricted by their resources. Every approach to increase
formality will need to be country specific, but it would be interesting to see if the PRADD and DDI approaches could be
combined. Miners want to be formalized, and governments must recognize that illegality is not criminality. It is important
to provide government services of value to miners, and a mobile licensing scheme could be one.
Panel 3B: Standards and safeguards for the sourcing of ASM minerals
Chair: Ngomesia Mayer-Kechom
Panelists: Lahra Liberti, Mark Van Bockstael, Shawn Blore
Discussant: Marie Muller
Summary
Lahra Liberti described in her presentation how international organizations such as the World Bank and
OECD may be able to assist with LSM-ASM cooperation. The other panelists argued that while the KPCS has
add value to diamond revenues since it was established, the KPCS must be updated to reflect the changing
times that ensures traceability and monitoring.
Lahra Liberti
OECD is providing guidance designed to help companies follow good governance when operating in the mineral sector
with a “process oriented” approach with LSM-ASM cooperation. The OECD Roadmap envisions cooperation with the
World Bank and goes hand in hand with certification schemes.
Mark Van Bockstael
The development of the KPCS followed the creation of the certification of minerals from Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone
certification scheme included 17 levels of security on the document, each costing £65 with an electronic version, which
was encrypted. Due to political change in Sierra Leone, the certification scheme stopped; KPCS is now in its place. The
KPCS has added value to revenues by 1.5-1.7%. But, there is a stronger need than ever to footprint rough and feed
information into a real-time system. There needs to be a system in which the importer is willing and capable to perform
due diligence; there cannot be any trade mis-pricing. If so, the certification system will prove to be a “dead duck.”
Shawn Blore
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is a certification scheme aimed to stem the illicit
trading of the 3 T’s and gold in the Great Lakes Region and is learning from the positives and negatives of the KPCS. A
certification system cannot be based on a system of internal controls alone; there must be real traceability. Criticism of the
KPCS includes oversight, transparency, penalties, traceability. A possible solution includes a consumer-driven approach
that must be reconciled with benefits brought to ASM communities. ICGLR is donor-supported in the short term (by
BGR, PAC, and USAID) and down the road will be funded by a user pay system by the private sector.
Panel 4A: Diamond revenue transparency and accountability mechanisms for mining communities’
beneficiation from revenues
Chair: Catherine Picard
Panelists: Alfred Brownell and Javier Aguilar
Discussant: Michael Jarvis
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Summary
This panel focused on how to make ASM more accountable in the future. Javier Aguilar discussed how difficult it
would be to add ASM to the EITI. Alfred Brownell questioned the fairness of the current value chain and presented
an idea for a Kimberley Process Transparency Index. Overall, this panel was concerned about establishing a way
to ensure fair compensation for mining communities.
Javier Aguilar, World Bank
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard for extractive resources. Adding ASM to the
EITI may be difficult because the EITI has a very narrow focus. To date, no producer countries have put ASM in their EITI
frameworks.
What can EITI contribute to ASM?
• Help evaluate the value chain
• Intervene where significant and concentrated financial flows occur and taxes are paid.
• Focus on exporters and traders
Alfred Brownell, President of Green Advocates
The Kimberley Process (KP) can become more efficient by partnering with the World Bank, USAID, EITI, DFID, CIDA, the
EC, SIDA, GIZ, AusAid, and public private partnerships. The KP should help track revenue and offer developmental support
in effort to support transparency and accountability. There should be a Kimberley Process Transparency Index where nations
could receive a AAA rating through a Cleaner Diamond Initiative (CDI). This would be a pilot program where countries would
opt into being a part of the CDI, to receive a high diamond rating.
There needs to be a study of the value chain (from pit to jewelry) to see who is making the most money, because the diamond
miners deserve to be paid fairly. We must consider value versus royalty. The KP could be the appropriate forum to start a
value chain analysis and to insist that producer countries transfer a part of the revenue to the communities.
Michael Jarvis (Discussant)
It is important to understand who represents the community and how they are allowed to spend the money for the
community. There are times when governments look accountable on paper, but in reality the money meant for
communities are being kept solely by chiefs.
Panel 4B: Best practices and lessons learned in building collaborative relationships between artisanal
miners and commercial-scale mining enterprises
Chair: Krista Hendry
Panelists: Saleem Ali, Andrew Bone, Genevieve Hume
Discussant: Chris Sheldon
Summary
Saleem Ali suggests that some low hanging fruit for improving ASM practices is for LSM to provide ASM with
technical assistance. Andrew Bone describes how the private sector can encourage these partnerships between
LSM and ASM. Women may play a key role in initiating and maintaining partnership, yet as Genevieve Hume
acknowledged in her presentation, financial incentives for all actors must be present in order for the
partnerships to get off the ground.
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Saleem Ali
Common interests between LSM and ASM lead to competition of the same product. It is possible that companies can
benefit from ASM collaboration through closure planning and exploration (i.e. West Africa). There is a 90 times higher
rate of accidents among ASM vs. LSM/developed country operations. One solution that would be low hanging fruit is for
LSM to provide ASM with technical assistance to reduce the number of accidents and improve environmental and health
conditions.
Andrew Bone
Diamonds are an emotional product. De Beers is almost exclusively engaged in LSM, but believes in delivering benefits
back to diamond-producing communities. The kind of collaboration between LSM and ASM should be seen as a hand up
rather than as a hand out – expertise is out there and the key to collaboration is engaging governments and their local
communities. The private sector can encourage partnerships through mentorships, and there is a need for a sort of
“mentoring clearinghouse.”
There is a universal perception that women are better with money and there is a great entrepreneurial spirit among women
– this must be leverage. The biggest challenge of all remains the access to market. The biggest losers are the owners of
capital, but these people must be part of the solution. There could be a managed partnership between the WB and De
Beers just like there was between the WHO and De Beers some time ago.
Genevieve Hume
Hume Atelier launched a project in CAR, built upon Global Development Alliance and Private-Public Partnership. It is
necessary to look at financial incentives for collaboration; consumers are interested in the country of origin and
provenance of their product, yet there is also a growing market for artisanal goods. Challenges include logistics, system
instability, child labor, lack of trust, conflict between stakeholders, difficult to enforce country of origin programs, the
question of an export tax and who funds the system (exporter vs. importer).
Going into Action
Chair: Gregory Myers
Panelists: Bernard Taylor, Andrew Bone, Ian Smillie
Summary
It is important to not place any further burden on the KP, because the KP has always focused solely on conflict
eradication. To add a focus of development, the KP will need to collaborate with other organizations like DDI. We
must expand our current pilot projects if we want to see any substantial change within our development
discussions. There should be the creation of the Mining Action Forum, to serve as a place where civil society,
NGOs, banks and the private sector can collaborate and discuss the future of development for KP countries.
Gregory Myers
Economic development is important for the KP, for industry, for the communities, and for the KP itself. Communities
have low incentives to formalize or mine responsibly. Technical assistance to the communities can increase rates of
formalization, reduce conflict, increase the amount of diamonds entering the formal chain of custody, and improve
livelihoods.
Ian Smillie
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Lots of good work is being done but it still amounts only to “dabbling”. DDI shares some of the good work that is ready to
go to scale. Governments are still not innovating although Angola’s new legislation seems promising. Dennis Rondinelli’s
book on development projects as experiments is a valuable contribution. We have to learn from experiments, and learn
from failures and successes alike. The KP is a regulatory system; it doesn’t know about development. This is why we
created DDI. There are funding issues. There is only a small, patchy fabric of funds available, and we need more funders.
Andrew Bone
It is time for going beyond pilots. In 30 years the known deposits of diamonds will dwindle. The supply of diamonds from
formal, regulated deposits will drop. There is pressure now to move beyond pilots. We must be cautious about putting yet
another burden on the KP – it is 75 countries, and not all of them care about development. We could have a forum, a
clearing house of expertise, and equipment. It could be mobile and go where critical meetings are taking place or
wherever the expertise and good will is.
Bernard Taylor
The KP has a sufficient amount of work on its plate. What we are contemplating shouldn’t be done in isolation. We have
indeed been dabbling over the years. The response of the producer governments has been disappointing. They seem more
interested in industrial mining. Could the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Mining Unit be the vehicle for what we
are discussing? Could there be an International Year of Artisanal Mining? Banks aren’t interested in this sector. Yet there
are actors who finance other artisanal industries, such as fishing. The gold companies are further along than the diamond
industry. Equipment, knowledge, formalization are important resources needed for improving the developmental potential
of ASM. As far as key organizations, CASM has been working on ASM for years and is ready to become more
operational. We need renewed international efforts. The KP and EITI need more synergy and more shared understanding.
We need an active, action-oriented forum. We need to listen to communities, and not just the miners – the women too.
Discussion of Going into Action
The KP was established with a narrow focus that excludes development. This was the only way member countries could
reach concensus and establish the KP. But now the development question must be addressed. The KP should be
strengthened through developmental fairness, to ensure clean diamonds. The KP could take steps in the right direction by
focusing on development in addition to just vetting, and by establishing a technical assistance working group. Some
discussants suggested a new forum outside the KP where we can talk about development alone. We ought to have an
“associate organization” status for development organizations. We should consider a Mining Action Forum. This could
be populated by the tripartite alliance and hosted by the KP, by the Indaba, by CASM…. Wherever there are equipment
suppliers, bankers, all the different expertise. We need a clearing house. Mobile financing is something that can be done.
The smart card system they’re using in South Africa for pension payments is an example.
There is a lot of funding that is disappearing into smuggling. If all the initiatives could monitor how much could be
generated by diverting funds from fraud into the formal chain of custody, governments could be expected to contribute
more. More resources are needed to achieve the developmental potential of ADM. We need to think how to scale up the
pilot projects that are working. We need to decide if these initiatives should be under the KP or in conjunction with the
KP. A KP secretariat could make significant progress on this issue.