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Clara HidrónThird Sector Innovation: “Sustainability and Social Impact”
August 16 - 18, 2007
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH ORO VERDE IN COLOMBIA
• 1 of 25 most biodiverse areas in the world.
• Great cultural diversity.• Abundant natural
resources• Historic exploitation of
precious metals.
The Biogeographic Chocó
In 2005 79% of its population suffers from Unsatisfied
Basic Needs
Child mortality triples the
national average
13 million people displaced in
2004
Deforestation
Water contamination by toxic chemicals
Devastation of this strategic ecosystem
Revision of the Constitution in 1991
Law 70 of 1993
What is precious?
PRECIOUS IS A QUALITY THAT IS NURTURED.
AND WHILE IT MAY BE MORE EFFICIENT TO HARVEST OTHER GOLDS
IN MINES USING CYANIDE AND MACHINERY,
IN CHOCÓ COLOMBIA, GOLD IS NURTURED IN SOME OF THE RICHEST SOIL,
NEAR THE PUREST STREAMS,IN ONE OF THE LUSHEST ECOSYSTEMS ON THE PLANET.
AN ECOSYSTEM THAT THE PEOPLE OF CHOCO CALL THEIR HOME.
IT’S WHERE WE LIVE. THIS ISN’T A MINE.
Oro Verde Program
10 certification criteria
Raw, pure, alloyed metal and jewellery
Purchase and Transportation Chocó-Medellín
ManagementFinancesRegulation
Community monitoring system
IIAP: independent certifying body
COV
Ronald de Hommel
Diversification of production activities
The Challenges…
• Market development for a new product. • Limited financial resources.• Limited production of certified metals.• Informality of the sector and abandonment in the region
(education and employment).• Weak managerial and entrepreneurial capacities.
Ronald de Hommel
• Geographic isolation, climatic instability and precarious transportation conditions (expensive field work).
• Governance issues.• Effective empowerment.
• More than 1300 beneficiaries protect 7.900Ha of tropical rainforest.
Accomplishments
• Community strengthening, appropriation of the territory, knowledge transfer and increased income for mining communities.
• ARM is created with other organizations.• Exchanges with communities in other
countries. • Official declaration of mining areas of the
Community Councils (Tadó 34.929Ha and Condoto 72.006Ha).
• World’s first certification system for metals.
• Market development.
Lessons
1. Understand local dynamics and guarantee community participation.
2. Set up a team with a multidisciplinary vision, this will allow knowledge exchange and the appropriation of the initiative by its beneficiaries.
3. Ensure continuous monitoring and evaluation.4. Optimize investments and create synergies through
strategic alliances.5. Develop a strategy for the sustainability of the
initiative.
THE MOST LOVED GOLD ON THE PLANET
www.amichoco.orgwww.grengold-oroverde.orgwww.communitymining.org