Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining: What needs to be done?

This report sets out some of the challenges, what the World Gold Council (WGC) is doing and what it hopes others – in government, in the gold value chain, in international organisations and in civil society - will do. The issues are too serious to ignore.

The WGC recognises that other stakeholders have been working in the field over many years and we do not imply that we have unique insights. However, we strongly believe in the urgent need to work with others to mobilise a ‘coalition of the willing’ to turn things around. We hope, thereby, to realise a positive vision for the role that ASGM can fulfil for countries and communities if an enabling framework is provided and safeguards are implemented against corruption, human rights abuses and infiltration by organised crime.