Guidance: Personal protective equipment is of essential importance for the health and safety of miners. Controlled: Personal protective equipment is used. Having achieved the improvement related to this requirement, the High Risk is controlled. --- and --- The AMP is committed to proceeding with mitigation of Medium and Low Risks (MODULES 6 and 7). Guidance: It has become habitual for miners to use PPE at work. Progressing: Risk Improvement Miners do not use the essential personal protective equipment (PPE) appropriate for the work they perform. The AMP has a risk management plan in place for increasing the use of PPE; as part of this plan, the AMP facilitates the availability of PPE at local shops and markets, promotes its use, and progressively makes its use and maintenance mandatory for all members. Guidance: On a year-by-year the AMP shall commit to steps towards mitigation of the risk and achieving the improvement. Recommended activities are: … … … Commitments and achievements shall be documented in the CRAFT report. Unaddressed Guidance: The risk needs to be assessed, and if present, mitigation measures need to be taken. M.5/1.3.11/R.1 1. Category: Human and Workers' Rights 1.3 Issue: Occupational Health & Safety 1.3.11 Sub-Issue: Mercury Use & Production The AMP takes steps towards elimination of whole ore amalgamation. Guidance: Addresses Minamata Convention (UNEP 2013), Annex C, par.1 (b) (i) Applies to miners and to processing plants that are part of the AMP Controlled: The AMP does not use whole ore amalgamation. Having achieved the improvement related to this requirement, the High Risk is controlled. --- and --- The AMP is committed to proceeding with mitigation of Medium and Low Risks (MODULES 6 and 7). Guidance: All ore is pre-concentrated (using hand sorting, gravimetric concentration, flotation or other methods) and, if amalgamation is needed, only the concentrate is amalgamated. Progressing:
Risk Improvement Lack of coordination between members of the AMP may be a cluster of different independent entities) poses limitations to achieving improvements. The AMP has established formal or informal coordination mechanisms for decision making. and these decision-making structures are operational and functional. Guidance: On a year-by-year the AMP shall commit to steps towards mitigation of the risk and achieving the improvement. Recommended activities are: … … … Commitments and achievements shall be documented in the CRAFT report. Unaddressed Guidance: The risk needs to be assessed, and if present, mitigation measures need to be taken. M.5/3.1.2/R.1 3. Category: Use of Natural Resources 3.1 Issue: Land Use & Biodiversity 3.1.2 Sub-Issue: Legally Protected Areas The AMP operates in coordination with and in support of Protected Area Authorities. Guidance: Forceful eviction of ASM from protected is rarely successful in the medium and long term. According to findings of ASM-PACE, alternative options exist to balance conservation goals with development opportunities of ASM. Controlled: The AMP's operation is aligned with conservation goals. Having achieved the improvement related to this requirement, the High Risk is controlled. --- and --- The AMP is committed to proceeding with mitigation of Medium and Low Risks (MODULES 6 and 7). Guidance: Balancing conservation goals with development opportunities is particularly important for ASM areas that were subsequently declared protected areas. The CRAFT does not endorse an “invasion” of protected areas. Progressing: Risk Improvement Conflicts between ASM and authorities administrating protected areas exist, i.e. mineral extraction is considered an impediment to the conservation goal of the protected area. The AMP has reached an agreement with the administration of the protected area, supporting authorities in their task of achieving the conservation goal. --- or --- The AMP is willing to demonstrate at any moment that it to cooperate with the administration of the protected area and to support the conservation goal.
UNEP (2013): Minamata Convention on Mercury. Text and Annexes. UNEP. Geneva (CH). Villegas, Cristina; Weinberg, Ruby; Levin, Estelle; Hund, Kirsten (2012): Global-Solutions-Study. Artisanal and small-scale mining in protected areas and critical ecosystems programme. A global solutions study. http://www.levinsources.com/assets/pages/Global-Solutions-Study.pdf. VP: Voluntary Principles on Security and Rights. ANNEXES 1: Modules and Affiliation Levels Applicant Candidate Affiliate Affiliate (renewal) ENGAGEMENT LEVEL Start receiving support Engagement with formal markets (commercial relationships) Continued commercial relationship Continued commercial relationship MODULE 1: SCOPE AND AFFILIATION Applied for scheme participation Updated with increased details Updated with further increased details Updated with further increased details MODULE 2: LEGITIMACY OF THE AMP Evidence provided Updated Updated MODULE 3: II RISKS REQUIRING IMMEDIATE DISENGAGEMENT Risks assessed and found absent (pass) assessed and found absent (pass) Risks assessed and found absent (pass) MODULE 4: ANNEX II RISKS REQUIRING DISENGAGEMENT AFTER UNSUCCESSFUL MITIGATION Risks assessed Risks assessed and found absent (pass) or with satisfactory mitigation progress Risks assessed and found absent (pass) or with satisfactory mitigation progress MODULE 5: NON-ANNEX II HIGH RISKS REQUIRING IMPROVEMENT assessed and improvement plan (commitments) established Further risks assessed and improvement plan (commitments) under implementation MODULE 6, MODULE 7 (in future versions of the CRAFT)