We’ve started capturing and sharing insights from artisanal miners about the impact of #COVID19 and are looking for others to join in! Share your insights using #COVID19ASM and sign up to join a task force discussion on April 6. Learn more at bit.ly/2QKOmdp

Register to join an online Task Force call 6th April to bring stakeholders together & share ideas, resources, & action initiatives to support #ASM communities: delvedatabase.org/about/news-and…

So we don’t go to restaurants, kids aren’t signed up for anything, and we are just staying home during spring break? Sounds like my childhood.

#Artisanal coral #miners continue operating as an essential livelihood in #Manda #Kenya, but are seeing a 20% drop in local brick prices due to #COVID19 pandemic. New insights from #Kenya by @Pactworld & Kirsten Dales at delvedatabase.org/about/news-and… #COVID19ASM

In my news feed today: "The Company has acquired a fully permitted mine and facility with adjacent properties that have an abundance of small scale artisanal miners, dramatically reducing the exploration risk." If you want to reduce your social license to operate risk, ENGAGE ASM

Today Pact UK joined 150+ business and civil society leaders in calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to use the #SDGs to create a socially just and green recovery from #Covid19 in the UK. Learn more >>> bit.ly/30BzBzJ #BuildBackBetter #FutureWeWant

The world's largest jeweller doesn't want to source gold from the world's largest gold workforce (artisanal miners). Shame on them. fastcompany.com/90512610/the-w… #artisanal #gold #Mining #asgm

Data collection has begun with over 14 organizations in 22 countries partnering with Delve & WorldBank to report on the impacts of #COVID19 in #artisanal #mining communities #COVID19ASM Learn more at delvedatabase.org/about/news-and…

Child labor is a complex global problem that requires systemic solutions to address root economic & social causes, namely poverty. With communities, governments & companies throughout supply chains, Pact has been working to #EndChildLabor in #mining for more than a decade. #WDACL

New #data on #COVID19 & #ASM communities is live on Delve. Interact with survey data from 365 people across 14 countries showing perceptions, impacts on food security, mineral supply chains & more. #COVID19ASM #mining Explore at delvedatabase.org/covid-data

Experts say artisanal mining is here to stay and help sustain global markets disq.us/t/3pf1p12

bangkokpost.com/world/1945316/… Another massive casualty from the jade ASM sector in Myanmar. Horrible, sad and preventable.

Ask a question to two pioneering initiatives (Virtu Gem, Moyo Gems) bringing responsibly sourced gemstones from #artisanalminers to market during #COVID19! Visit our community forum to submit a question: community.delvedatabase.org/forum/15-ask-u…

Yes, I think Frank Mugyenyi also makes an excellent point about the need to better negotiate mineral contracts. This is true not just at national scale, but local scale, and transparency is really critical. Communities need more technical assistance, education and training.

Pact's Karen Hayes is a Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leader! Assent chose Karen for her extraordinary leadership in advocating for artisanal #miners, who are among the most vulnerable workers in the world. More: bit.ly/3jjYIgy #CSR #ASM

Today, Pact and Univ. of Delaware publish the world’s first holistic review of #ASM’s interlinkages with each of the 17 #SDGs – Mapping Artisanal and Small-Scale #Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals. Read the report here >>> bit.ly/2Z7CNl0 #globalgoals SDSN

New Publication Alert! Released by Pact and Univ. of Delaware today: 'Mapping #ASM to the #SDGs' View interlinkages between the #mining sector and #SDGs along with #policy guidance to unlock the ASM sector's potential at bit.ly/3bItSeY #ASMandSDGs

Learn more in our new #ASM-#SDG Policy Assessment >>> bit.ly/2Z7CNl0 #globalgoals #mining

'The formalization of ASM sites should be endorsed across the battery value chain as an essential component of cobalt mining' Recommendations and analysis in World Economic Forum new paper on #artisanal #cobalt #mining in the #DRC based on projects in #Kolwezi weforum.org/whitepapers/ma…

“ASM is almost exclusively treated as a mining issue and it’s not, it’s a livelihoods issue.” - Prof Gavin Hilson, my PhD supervisor, on the impacts of COVID-19 on ASM: youtu.be/MR13FY7Niv0