Project

GEF GOLD Peru – Integrated Sound Management of Mercury in Peru’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM)

Lead country

Peru

Participating countries

Peru

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From June 17, 2019 to June 17, 2024

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

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

Project ID: 5874

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Heavy metals
  • Waste management

Sub-area(s)

  • Mercury
  • Source from ASGM
  • Source from Health sector
  • Hazardous chemical waste (e.g. legacy 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
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Technology innovation
  • Monitor inventory

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Transition to safer alternatives
  • Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
  • Awareness raising
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Waste/pollutants monitoring

Social inclusion

  • Artisanal miners

Gender equality

  • Women's access to and control over resources

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Reduce exposure

SDG target(s)

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

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Financial intermediaries and market facilitators

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

USD $4,120,000

Grant amount

USD $35,233,512

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Source(s) of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,120,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Ministry of Environment (MINAM)

Joint agencies

  • UN Environment

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