Gender and Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining: Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone (2014-2021)

Gender and Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining: Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone (2014-2021)

Two women sieve minerals in Osiri, Kenya

Overview

Project Brief

• Gender and Artisanal Mining: Connecting Research with Extractive Sector Governance(September 2018, 2 page summary document)
• Gendering Women’s Livelihoods and Small-Scale Mining (Forthcoming paper, September 2019)
• Gender and ASM: Implications for Formalization (Buss et al) (Forthcoming paper, November 2019)

 Publications

• Geoforum, A ‘cartography of concern’: Place-making practices and gender in the artisanal mining sector in Africa

Country Specific Reports

General

AYV (African Young Voices television, http://ayvnews.com/) news clip about the “Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Connecting Research with Extractive Sector Governance” workshop, Magburaka, Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone, 22 October 2018

Blog Posts

Posts by Sarah Katz-Lavigne (PhD candidate, NPSIA, Carleton)**

• Women and Artisanal Mining (Migori County, Kenya; July 2015)
• The Dynamism of ASM and Gender in Kenya: Final Reflections

Post by Ekpedeme Edem (PhD candidate, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton)***

• COVID-19 and Women in ASM: A Sub-Saharan African Perspective

**Thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Insight grant for supporting the research of Sarah Katz-Lavigne as part of the Statebuilding and Women’s livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining research project

***Thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Partnership Development grant for supporting the research of Ekpedeme Edem as part of the Gender and artisanal and small-scale mining: connecting research with extractive sector governance project.