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Reducing Impacts of Gold Mining on Biodiversity and Communities, Bolivia

Grantee Name: Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ecología

Hotspot
Tropical Andes
Location
Bolivia
Amount
$167,677
Dates
Dec 2024 – Nov 2025
Keywords
Capacity building, Extractive industries, Gender, Indigenous People, Networks, Governance

Strengthen policy frameworks to stop destructive mining practices in ecologically sensitive areas in and around Pilón Lajas protected area. Support the strengthening of municipal-level policies to prohibit destructive mining, communications on the impacts of illegal mining, building local capacity of women miners to promote sustainability, assessing mercury levels in local fauna, developing a strategy to prohibit destructive mining on indigenous territories, and strengthening organizational capacity to integrate gender considerations.

Strategic Direction :

2 In the seven priority corridors, collaborate with public and private sector stakeholders to enable biodiversity conservation, a green recovery from COVID-19, and environmental, financial, and social sustainability, in be

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