In women's month, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASGM) workers from Madre de Dios, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Ica, Nazca, Junín and Puno have succeeded, with the support of the organization Solidaridad, the creation and consolidation of the National Network of Women in Mining Artisanal and Small-Scale (RNM-MAPE), the first women's mining guild of ASGM. This initiative will make it possible to highlight the work of women in this sector and enhance their participation.
“We are a network that seeks to organize, strengthen, empower and provide the necessary support to gender within the sector. Our first objective is to strengthen and train women miners from associations and those who carry out independent activity, promoting visibility and participation within artisanal and small-scale mining (ASGM),” commented María Reyes, president-elect of the National Network of Women in ASGM.
During the event that took place on March 7, Lima, Reyes stressed that the next step is to arrange meetings with officials to find opportunities for change and that the RNM-ASPE can be consulted in the current process of formulating the National Multisectoral Policy for Small and Artisanal Mining.
“One of our goals is that we can be included in the regulations of Artisanal Mining and Small Mining, since the current one does not,” added Reyes. This request includes the need to include them in the ASGM legislation and that they be part of the consultations of the National Mining Project.
For his part, the manager of the Solidaridad mining program, Mauricio Winkelried, stressed that this work will allow small-scale mining and artisanal mining workers to offer their views, desires and needs in order to achieve better conditions for themselves and their families.
“We seek to generate spaces where women miners and the different members of ASGM can participate as part of the Revaloro project. We are also facilitating a series of workshops with different associations of artisanal miners in the country where they can express their opinions on a new policy that the State is preparing for the development of this sector,” Winkelried said.
THIS PROJECT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2025
The coordinator of the Revaloro de Solidaridad project, Luis Landa, announced that the project in question will continue until 2025. The Mining Program began its activities with the mining leaders in May 2021, with workshops and meetings in different regions of the country. “The next step is to establish a follow-up to the network to provide advice and support, and make it sustainable over time,” he said.
The presentation event of the first National Network of Women in ASGM was held in Lima, and was attended by representatives of the public sector, national and international organizations linked to the ASGM sector and more than a dozen female leaders members of the newly formed network, who were excited about the promising future of this initiative.
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