Name of Resource | UNICEF’s Child Rights and Mining Toolkit. Best practices for addressing children’s issues in large-scale mining |
Type | Report / analysis |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | United Nations Children's Fund |
Initiative launch date | January 2017 |
Description | The Toolkit is designed to assist any of those in the mining sector who are responsible for designing and implementing strategies related to social and environmental performance at the project level. It provides 10 concise tools for improving social and environmental performance towards respecting and advancing children’s rights. Tool 1 Impact Assessment and Tool 2 Stakeholder Engagement provide cross-cutting guidance that can be applied to any of the other areas. Each tool can be used independently for specific purposes, according to the company’s needs and circumstances. Toolkit supplements existing guidance, handbooks and standards. It provides additional information tailored to mining companies, in reference to the resources that are highlighted in each tool. The issues related to supply chains are being discussed in the chapter on working conditions in the supply chain and management of on-site contractors and chapter on protecting children from sexual violence. |
Availability | ENG: https://www.unicef.org/csr/files/FINAL_Child_Rights_and_Mining_Toolkit_060217.pdf |