Artisanal miners in excavator hollow. Photo by Consejo Comunitario de Condoto.  Project with IIAP, Colombia.

Status: Closed
Commencement Date: 2002
End Date: 2004

The general objective of this research network was to contribute with institutional strengthening and development of the artisan and small-scale miners as social players.

Ekamolle was the institution in charge of regional coordination.

The research network project also included national studies in Bolivia (Cumbre del Sajama S.A.), Brazil (CETEM in collaboration with NAEA), Colombia (XIJMA Ltda. and INER/Universidad de Antioquia), Ecuador (Fundación Natura) and Peru (Ekamolle).

Specific objectives:

• To characterize different forms of organization of ASM in selected countries with emphasis in social, cultural, labour and political (organizational) aspects
• To identify the strengths and weaknesses of ASM organizations
• To analyze the authority and power mechanism, decision making processes and forms to deal with internal conflicts
• To identify and analyze the ASM organization relationships with other stakeholders, including government, mining and commercial companies, and civil society organizations, with emphasis on the local level
• To analyze the national legal framework influence on types and proceses of existing organizations
• To make recommendations to adapt and produce public policies adjusted to different ASM organizational cultures, with the aim of facilitating the institutional strengthening of their organization
• To elaborate guidelines for institutional strengthening, including training
• To build and test a matrix of variables, which is expected to be useful to monitor institutional strengthening processes of ASM organizations
• To contribute with the formation of a Latin-American small-scale mining organizations network.

Centro de Tecnología Mineral@ Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
CETEM

Instituto para el Desarrollo Sustentable@ Lima (Peru)
Ekamolle

Fundación Ecuatoriana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza@ Quito (Ecuador)
Fundación Natura

Instituto de Estudios Regionales de la Universidad de Antioquia@ Medellín (Colombia)
INER

Cumbre del Sajama@ La Paz (Bolivia)
SAJAMA

Inversiones Xijma@ Bogotá (Colombia)
XIJMA

Document(s)

050317-017 & 018 / Guidelines for research support in artisan and small-scale mining@ MPRI / IDRC 2002
This document presents a strategic vision and reviews the priority issues for the transformation of small-scale mining. Open file

050317-017 & 028 / Ecuadorian proposal: Organization and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining@ Fundación Natura 2003
Proposal presented to assume the national coordination of Ecuador of the Organization and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale Mining Project. Open file

050317-017 & 028 / Final Report Ecuador: Organization and Institutionalization of ASM@ Xavier Armendariz, Carlos León, Ruth Elena Ruiz, Daniel Valdiviezo (Fundación Natura), Luis Bustamante (Fundación Arco Iris) 2004
This document presents the results of the research project on organisation and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining in Ecuador, funded by the MPRI/IDRC. Open file

050317-017 & 029 / Final Report Peru: Organization and Institutionalization of ASM in Peru@ Ekamolle 2004
This document presents the results of the research project on organisation and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining in Peru, funded by the MPRI/IDR Open file

050317-017 & 029 / Peruvian proposal: Organization and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining@ Ekamolle 2003
Proposal presented to assume the national coordination of Peru of the Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining project. Open file

050317-017 & 035 / Bolivian proposal: Organization and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining@ Cumbre del Sajama 2003
Proposal presented to assume the national coordination of Bolivia of the Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining project. Open file

050317-017 & 035 / Final Report Bolivia: Organization and Institutionalization of ASM@ Ana María Araníbar, Elidoro Sandi Bernal (Sajama) 2004
This document presents the results of the research project on organisation and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining in Bolivia, funded by the MPRI/IDRC. Open file

050317-017 & 036 & 037 / Colombian Proposal: Organization and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining@ Institute of Regional Studies (INER ) / Universidad de Antioquia , XIJMA 2003
Proposal presented to assume the national coordination of Colombia of the Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining project. Open file

050317-017 & 036 & 037 / Final Report Colombia: Organization and Institutionalization of ASM@ Instituto de Estudios Regionales (INER )/ Universidad de Antioquia, XIJMA 2004
This document presents the results of the research project on organisation and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining in Colombia, funded by the MPRI/IDRC. Open file

050317-017 & 038 / Brazilian Proposal: Organization and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining@ Centro de Tecnología Mineral (CETEM) 2003
Proposal presented to assume the national coordination of Brazil of the Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining project.  Please, find Proposal and Annex (in Portuguese). Open file

050317-017 & 038 / Final Report Brazil: Organization and Institutionalization of ASM@ Maria Helena Rocha , Saulo Rodrigues , Jurgen Schnellrath , Roberto C. Villas Bôas (Centro de Tecnología Mineral) 2004
This document presents the results of the research project on organisation and institutionalization of artisan and small-scale mining in Brazil, funded by the MPRI/IDRC. Open file

050317-017 / Call for research proposals on small-scale mining@ MPRI / IDRC 2002
MPRI/IDRC call of 2002 to submit proposals for the coordination of the Research Network Project on Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining. Open file

050317-017 / Research Network Project on Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining@ Ekamolle 2002
Network project presented by Ekamolle for the regional coordination of the project Organization and Institutionalization of Artisan and Small-scale Mining. Open file