Libby McDonald | MIT D-Lab

D-Brief: TeleCCB for Artisanal Miners

Publication | Apr 01, 2021 | Elizabeth McDonald, Amanda Epting

D-Brief: TeleCCB for Artisanal Miners

VIDEO: Interview with small-scale gold miner Aida Luz Mosquera

Small-scale gold miner Aida Luz Mosquera, Bajo Cauca, Colombia.

Video | Mar 30, 2021 | MIT D-Lab & Alliance for Responsible Mining

MIT D-Lab & Alliance for Responsible Mining

VIDEO: Interview with small-scale gold miner Aida Luz Mosquera

VIDEO: Interview with mining law specialist Erika Gracia

Mining law specialist Erika Garcia, left.

Video | Mar 25, 2021 | MIT D-Lab & Alliance for Responsible Mining

MIT D-Lab & Alliance for Responsible Mining

VIDEO: Interview with mining law specialist Erika Gracia

Creative Capacity Building to Address Gender-Based Violence in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector in Colombia

Focus groups in Bajo Cauca and Andes, Colombia. Photo: ARM

Publication | Feb 17, 2021 | Libby McDonald, Anne Thibault, Sophie Herscovici, Nathalia Mendoza

Creative Capacity Building to Address Gender-Based Violence in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector in Colombia

VIDEO: Interview with mining and metallurgy engineer Maria Margarita Gamarra

Video | Mar 18, 2021 | MIT D-Lab & Alliance for Responsible Mining

MIT D-Lab & Alliance for Responsible Mining

VIDEO: Interview with mining and metallurgy engineer Maria Margarita Gamarra

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

MIT News

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