26-03-2018
Karim Karaki, ECDPM paper, March 2018.
In the Eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (where most of the Congolese gold is mined), artisanal and small-scale (ASM) gold mining contributes to the livelihood of about 200,000 miners and their families. This type of mining however, has a significant environmental and social impact.
Development partners seek to support the sector and make it a vehicle for sustainable development. This comes with a range of challenges, because of the nature of ASM itself, and because of the local political, economic and social context in DRC.
This study illustrates and sheds new light on some of the ASM realities in Eastern DRC. More specifically, it analyses the political economy of the ASM gold mining in Eastern DRC and the challenges and opportunities for economic development using a territorial development approach.
There are three main implications for development partners:
Photo: Gold mining. Gold mine in Tamiougou just south of Kongoussi. Credit: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR Flickr
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OCTAVIAN J. KIDIMA
|2019-04-28 08:46:15
Hello! Artisanal minors need surport from experts and Mining Departments in order to increase the tax to the Government in DRC, as a small scale mining ,and Leaching processing to every Provence .
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