Project

GEF GOLD KENYA: Global Opportunities for Long-term Development (GOLD) in the Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector: Integrated Sound Management of Mercury in Kenya’s ASGM

Lead country

Kenya

Participating countries

Kenya

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From July 5, 2019 to July 5, 2024

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
  2. 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
  3. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management

Project ID: 5877

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Heavy metals
  • Waste management

Sub-area(s)

  • Mercury
  • Source_from_ASGM
  • Hazardous_chemical_waste

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Mining sites
  • Contaminated sites

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing
  • Metals and Mining
  • ASGM

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Optimising financing

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Technology innovation
  • Finance economy

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Pollution control
  • Transition to safer alternatives
  • Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
  • Innovations in techniques/ approaches
  • New/other financial schemes/mechanism

Social inclusion

  • Artisanal miners
  • Private sector
  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Livelihoods for women
  • Women's cooperatives and groups
  • Gender-responsive policies

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway
  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Reduce exposure
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
  • 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management

Conventions and protocols

  • Minamata Convention on Mercury

Private sector(s)

  • Financial intermediaries and market facilitators
  • Capital providers
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration
  • Cov-19

USD $4,340,000

Grant amount

USD $17,819,711

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,340,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Kenya

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