INTRODUCTION
Project Coordination and Management
This component will provide support for project coordination and management; monitoring and evaluation at the national, and local levels. It will strengthen existing PCUs with additional staff to cover activities specific to this project and assist in preparing, implementing and monitoring approved activities in the participating countries. It will support the consolidation of country-level project information, including indicator baseline, reference sources and measurement to aggregate the results and development outcomes at EHPM program level. In addition, to the extent necessary, the analytical and preparation work will be carried out with GEF and other implementation stakeholders to harmonize the reporting templates, tools, and processes to facilitate the national project reporting that will feed into the regional knowledge exchange platform.
No Pollution
Afforstation
Clean water
Good health
Animal Habitat
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An estimated two to three million people in Africa are at risk of exposure to toxic chemicals from ASGM4. Rising international gold prices have made ASGM an attractive employment alternative for struggling farmers, poor rural communities, and migrant laborers. Ghana and Tanzania each have ASGM workforces estimated at more than 1 million people. However, ASGM has been consistently listed as a major source of water and soil pollution. Serious health concerns associated with heavy metal poisoning from metals such as cadmium and mercury are disproportionally affecting poor and vulnerable people. It is estimated that gold production from small-scale mining accounts for about 38 percent of total mercury emissions on the continent. A mercury trade diagnostic study conducted by the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice estimated that 90 to 95 percent of mercury used is smuggled from neighboring nations. However, there is limited data and knowledge about the amount of mercury used or the extent of mercury contamination and its health, environmental, and social impacts.