CURRENT PROJECTS

Proudly women miners

Women miners united for gender equity

Dates: 2018 – 2020

Intervention country: Colombia (Boyaca)

Donor: Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives (2018-2019)  and Fundación Ayuda (2019-2020)

Project for empowering female miners and promoting gender equality in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the province of Sugamuxi, Boyacá, Colombia.

Mission

Proudly Miners promotes the empowerment and participation of women in the mining sector through the creation of an association of women miners “Association of Enterprising Mining Women (ASOAMME) that also allows women to mobilize to achieve more responsible, egalitarian mining and equitable.

The association is expected to be the voice of women miners, to make their role in the sector visible, expose their specific problems and implement strategies and tools aimed at achieving their empowerment, their participation in the sector, as well as promoting knowledge and human rights education (particularly women’s and labor rights) among artisanal and small-scale miners and miners. Additionally, ASOAMME will strengthen its sustainability and growth through the generation of income through consulting and the elaboration of ceramic pieces.

Why this project?

Since 2013, ARM has accompanied 70 coal mines of Boyaca within the framework of the Somos Tesoro project, in which a study of gender gaps in mining has been carried out. In the focus groups and interviews with women miners, they stated that they need support in order to organize and defend their rights in the sector. On the occasion of this call, some of these women and the Sogamoso Women’s Secretariat were contacted on the spot, proposing to participate and contribute ideas for the project.Proudly Miners promotes the empowerment and participation of women in the mining sector through the creation of an association of women miners “Association of Enterprising Mining Women (ASOAMME) that also allows women to mobilize to achieve more responsible, egalitarian mining and equitable.

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