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After seven years of success in Colombia, the Somos Tesoro project is celebrating its conclusion with a webinar to present its work mobilizing diverse stakeholders in formalizing mining activities & stopping child labor. This webinar will feature the voices of artisanal mining communities companies & national authorities who have participated in the project.

New Steps of Somos Tesoro: As director of Pact in Colombia, the leading organization of the Somos Tesoro project, Patricia Henao Saavedra has contributed to positioning the issue of reducing child labor in Colombia as a current challenge for the public and private sectors. In this interview, she reveals how Somos Tesoro broadens her horizon in 2019.

Good for Education in Pedregal Alto: The families of the children who study at the La Independencia school are engaged in small-scale coal mining, transporting coal and other materials, or planting coriander and beans, among other products. With the Escuela Nueva model, these children have formal education close to home. Thus, they are more protected, in a friendly environment and tailored to their needs.

Perceptions and Imaginaries about Child Labor in Colombian Gold and Coal Mining: This study tries to identify these relationships and propose alternatives to overcome the factors that promote and justify it. The study combines quantitative and qualitative social research techniques to obtain a different perception, with an internalized vision of the causes of child labor, both at a general level and at a particular level in the Colombian ASM of coal and gold. In addition, it offers an analysis without barriers, which highlights the point of view of miners and shows the importance of taking their opinions into account, with a view to making them the agents of change on child labor.

Survey of the Final Line of the Somos Tesoro Project: This study measures the change in the prevalence of Child Labor in eight municipalities in the departments of Antioquia and Boyacá in Colombia, where the NGO Pact, carried out the Somos Tesoro project between the end of 2013 and 2017, focused on child labor in mining. This report statistically tested the difference in variables and indicators of interest, between a baseline survey (November 2014 - February 2015) and the final line survey (March - April 2018). The quantitative analysis is complemented with a qualitative analysis carried out from four focus groups with parents of households participating in the Project.

The Executive Summary of the Analysis of the Prevalence of Child Labor in Eight Municipalities of Antioquia and Boyaca Between 2015 and 2018

Safety and Health in Small Colombian Mining: Case Studies in Gold and Coal: This study covers a wide variety of aspects that influence the ability of miners to change their working methods towards safer and healthier practices, such as labor requirements, economic and administrative challenges or the prevalence of child labor

Diagnosis of Child Labor Coal and Gold Mining Developments and Challenges in Public Policy: This study is an approach to the development of public policies regarding the violations and inequalities that are present in child labor in mining from the perspective of rights and human development, as well as an analysis of the conditions in which these communities find themselves and the consequences reflected in the risk of child labor.

An article about women working in artisanal mining in Colombia.

An article about artisanal and small-scale miners in Colombia, and their hopes to formalize their industry.