RAPPORT D’ATELIER DE FORMATION RÉGIONAL SUR LA GESTION DES MINES ARTISANALES ET À PETITE ÉCHELLE

The workshop, organized by the IGF in partnership with the UNDP and OECD, focused on the 'IGF Guide for Governments: Managing Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining'. It combined technical training on strategy development—covering startup, elaboration, and implementation phases—with field visits to mining sites in Eséka and Pouma, Cameroon. Participants identified common regional challenges, including formalization, child labor, environmental degradation, and lack of institutional coordination, while sharing case studies from Cameroon, Guinea, Mauritania, and Morocco.

• The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in Africa is economically significant, employing approximately 9 million people and supporting the livelihoods of over 54 million individuals.
• Participants from 17 French-speaking African countries identified a wide array of common challenges in ASM management, including the difficulty of formalizing activities, lack of technical and human capacity for monitoring, child labor, migrant worker issues, and the absence of political will for reform.
• In Cameroon, the government has implemented mining governance reforms, including the promulgation of Law No. 2016/017 on December 14, 2016, which specifically addresses artisanal and small-scale mining.
• The Cameroonian state generates revenue from semi-mechanized artisanal mining through a synthetic tax in kind of 25% collected in the form of gold.
• The workshop highlighted a lack of uniform legal definitions for 'artisanal and small-scale mining' across the French-speaking region, with definitions varying based on mechanization levels, equipment used, deposit size, area covered, organizational structure, investment levels, or production volume.
• The training followed a three-phase management approach: a 'startup' phase (establishing working groups and stakeholder forums), a 'strategy elaboration' phase (defining vision and priorities), and an 'implementation' phase (planning, consultation, and monitoring).

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2018). RAPPORT D’ATELIER DE FORMATION RÉGIONAL SUR LA GESTION DES MINES ARTISANALES ET À PETITE ÉCHELLE. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/igf-meeting-report-yaounde-2018-fr.pdf

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. RAPPORT D’ATELIER DE FORMATION RÉGIONAL SUR LA GESTION DES MINES ARTISANALES ET À PETITE ÉCHELLE. 2018. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/igf-meeting-report-yaounde-2018-fr.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment2018rapport, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{RAPPORT D’ATELIER DE FORMATION RÉGIONAL SUR LA GESTION DES MINES ARTISANALES ET À PETITE ÉCHELLE}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/igf-meeting-report-yaounde-2018-fr.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }