{"id":6516,"date":"2014-10-15T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:16","slug":"research-artisanal-small-scale-mining-central-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2014\/research-artisanal-small-scale-mining-central-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Research on artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IAS researchers are part of collaborative research project on &#8220;Uncovering women\u2019s experiences in artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, Carleton University (the Institute of African Studies), Partnership Africa Canada and the&nbsp;Development Research (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacweb.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">PAC<\/a>) and Social Policy Analysis Centre (<a href=\"http:\/\/draspac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">DRASPAC<\/a>, based in Kampala, Uganda) launched a new 3-year research project&nbsp;aimed at providing an in-depth understanding of women\u2019s economic roles in artisanal and small-scale mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.&nbsp;Women perform a variety of roles in artisanal mining, from stone crushing to trading. In some mines, they make up 50% or more of the mining population. The project will explore conditions that shape women\u2019s access to economic resources and how these are affected by regulatory policies and reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project is supported through the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/EN\/Programs\/Social_and_Economic_Policy\/grow\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) program<\/a>, which&nbsp;is jointly funded by the UK&#8217;s Department for International Development (DFID), the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada\u2019s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/people\/jennifer-hinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jennifer Hinton<\/a>, adjunct professor at the Institute of African Studies, is Carleton&#8217;s lead researcher on the project.&nbsp; Other Carleton researchers include Doris Buss, Blair Rutherford, Pauline Rankin, and Jennifer Stewart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/EN\/Programs\/Social_and_Economic_Policy\/grow\/Pages\/Artisanal-and-small-scale-mining.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAS researchers are part of collaborative research project on &#8220;Uncovering women\u2019s experiences in artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa.&#8221; This week, Carleton University (the Institute of African Studies), Partnership Africa Canada and the&nbsp;Development Research (PAC) and Social Policy Analysis Centre (DRASPAC, based in Kampala, Uganda) launched a new 3-year research project&nbsp;aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}