Lead country
Suriname
Participating countries
Suriname
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From May 24, 2018 to May 24, 2025
Project ID: 5627
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
- Mainstreaming biodiversity
Sub-area(s)
- Ecosystem-based mitigation
- Wildlife conservation
Landscape(s)
- Forests
Sub-landscape(s)
- Tropical forests
Transformed sector(s)
- Materials and manufacturing
- Metals and Mining
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
- Data collection and analysis
Strategy
- Governance
- Law regulation
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Inter-sectoral coordination
- Sustainable land management
- Waste management
- Pollution control
- Institutional capacity building
- Technical capacity building
- Alignment
Social inclusion
- Private sector
- Local community/CSOs
- Artisanal miners
Gender equality
- Livelihoods for women
- Gender-responsive policies
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Reduce exposure
SDG target(s)
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
- 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
Conventions and protocols
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Private sector(s)
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Hot topic
- Nature-based solution
About this project
Description
Global environmental benefits will be achieved through significant institutional strengthening and coordination, enhanced inter-institutional collaboration, drafting of environmental policies for small and medium-scale gold mining and of a strategy for the sector, awareness raising and extensive training and provision of guidance to promote uptake of less environmentally harmful mining practices, among other elements.
Objectives
To improve the management of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Suriname (ASGM) and promote uptake of environmentally responsible mining technologies in order to reduce the negative effects on biodiversity, forests, water, and local communities, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
USD $7,698,631
Grant amount
USD $22,132,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($7,698,631)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Suriname
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