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Women and gender-based violence in small-scale mining: The story of female miners

Focal groups in Bajo Cauca & Andes. Photo credit: ARM

Blog | Nov 23, 2020 | Alliance for Responsible Mining

Alliance for Responsible Mining (Colombia)

Women and gender-based violence in small-scale mining: The story of female miners

D-Lab: Gender and Development to include three field projects to enhance gender equality in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

One of the fall 2020 D-Lab: Gender and Development class projects will work with Society Empowerment Project (SEP) in Oyugis, Kenya, which uses sport - in particular soccer - to mobilize, engage, and educate youth on life skills, health issues, agriculture, and a wide variety of other topics.

Blog | Aug 21, 2020 | Libby McDonald

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab: Gender and Development to include three field projects to enhance gender equality in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

MIT D-Lab Inclusive Economies Program and the Alliance for Responsible Mining join forces to address gender-based violence in the small-scale mining sector in Colombia

A group of women barequeras (gold panners) of El Bagre, Antioquia, Colombia. ©Alliance for Responsible Mining

News | Jun 02, 2020 | MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab Inclusive Economies Program and the Alliance for Responsible Mining join forces to address gender-based violence in the small-scale mining sector in Colombia

Helping artisanal miners in Colombia face the Covid-19 crisis

D-Lab community partner C-Innova quickly developed virtual design modules to tackle the challenges of disease transmission and food insecurity. The modules consist of illustrated step-by-step instructions for making personal protection equipment (PPE), including hand sanitizer and masks, and illustrated step-by-step instructions for increasing food production with vertical gardens and small, portable chicken coops. Image courtesy of MIT D-Lab.

News | May 18, 2020 | Nancy Adams

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Helping artisanal miners in Colombia face the Covid-19 crisis

To Engage the Financially Excluded, Understand Their Informal Systems

Blog | Apr 30, 2020 | Libby McDonald

MIT Sloan Management Review

To Engage the Financially Excluded, Understand Their Informal Systems

MIT D-Lab program for artisanal miners in Antioquia, Colombia adapts to meet needs during COVID-19 crisis

D-Lab Creative Capacity Building Training of Trainers in Santa Rita, Colombia (January 2020). Photo: Sher Vogel

Blog | Apr 14, 2020 | Margarita Gamarra, Libby McDonald, Ta Corrales Sanchez, Cleidy Maya Zapata

MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab program for artisanal miners in Antioquia, Colombia adapts to meet needs during COVID-19 crisis

Capacitación creativa para la "Training of Trainers" con mineros artesanales en Colombia

Los participantes de CCB ToT y los facilitadores en capacitación celebran el día de cierre con la construcción de bombas de agua en la mano. Foto: Sher Vogel

Blog | Feb 14, 2020 | Sher Vogel and Libby McDonald. Traducción de Clara Etchegaray y Alex Freese.

MIT D-Lab

Capacitación creativa para la "Training of Trainers" con mineros artesanales en Colombia

Ten solutions developed by small scale gold miners to address livelihood challenges in Antioquia, Colombia

A composting system designed to recover land eroded by mining for agricultural use. See below for more informtion.

Blog | Feb 21, 2020 | Ta Corrales Sanchez

MIT D-Lab

Ten solutions developed by small scale gold miners to address livelihood challenges in Antioquia, Colombia

Creative Capacity Building Training of Trainers with Artisanal Miners in Colombia

CCB ToT participants and facilitators-in-training celebrating on closing day with water-pump build-its in hand. Photo: Sher Vogel

Blog | Feb 14, 2020 | Sher Vogel & Libby McDonald

MIT D-Lab

Creative Capacity Building Training of Trainers with Artisanal Miners in Colombia

Leadership, Organizing and Action – Women & Subsistence Mining in Medellín, Colombia

Fall 2018 D-Lab: Gender and Develpment students Anne Thibault (left), an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School), and Susana Tort (center) who completed her masters degree at MIT in Integrated Design Management in June, and Colombian miner Marta Cecilia Mesia Gomez (right).

Blog | Aug 28, 2019 | Anne Thibault

MIT D-Lab

Leadership, Organizing and Action – Women & Subsistence Mining in Medellín, Colombia