Reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Convening actors to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (CARING GOLD MINING PROJECT): Fact sheet

The CARING Gold Mining Project’s overall goal is to increase to address child labour and working conditions issues in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) globally and in Ghana and the Philippines, its pilot countries. It does so by pursuing four outcomes, the first three to be carried out in the pilot countries and the fourth one on a global scale.

The four project outcomes are:
Outcome 1: Laws, policies and action plans to address child labour (CL) and/or working conditions in ASGM in are strengthened, enforced and/or implemented.
Outcome 2: Access of vulnerable households living in ASGM communities to relevant social protection and livelihoods programmes is improved.
Outcome 3: Mechanisms to increase monitoring of CL and working conditions in gold mining supply chains, particularly ASGM, are developed and implemented.
Outcome 4: Global networks to reduce CL and improve working conditions in ASGM are operational.