Five modules and a compendium, published by GIZ on 19 May 2025 and written in French. Each is free to download. This page sets out what each module covers, whom it trains, and what C4D has kept unpublished.
Module 1 · in French
Covers: a cooperative’s legal and administrative obligations (its legal documents, composition, administrative tools, engagement policies, and the CTC and CRAFT standards); the site management system and its technical cells; planning, monitoring and evaluation; and the law that applies, from the Mining Code and Regulations and taxes to the EGC standard, the OHADA uniform act and the OECD guidance. Annexes give a worker register, a procedures outline, a production table, the EGC standard for cooperatives and extracts of the Mining Code.
Trains: cooperative managers, state agencies, project staff and civil society.
Module 2 · in French
Covers: the basic concepts; risk management and the risk cycle; risks and the causes of accidents; prevention, action plans, first aid and accident analysis; and the legal framework, including the EGC standard. It sets a maximum pit depth of 30 metres and recalls that the 2018 Mining Code protects pregnant women. Annexes give a policy text, a risk table, a safety-cell charter, maintenance plans and a ventilated-latrine model.
Trains: artisanal mining cooperatives and artisanal miners above all, with state technical services and civil society.
Module 3 · in French
Covers: environmental basics; impact assessment; good practice and monitoring; social responsibility and mine closure; and environmental law, from the Mining Regulations and the code of conduct to the Environment Code and the Nature Conservation Law, with the EGC standard. Field sheets cover recycling process water, a suspended-solids test and erosion.
Trains: miners and cooperatives, state and EGC agents, local civil society and NGO trainers.
Module 4 · in French
Covers: protective equipment for each part of the body; how to run a protective-equipment programme; the law, including the ministerial order of 4 August 1972; and protective equipment as the last line of defence.
Trains: cooperative managers and safety cells, miners, trainers and civil society; the module presents itself as a tool for SAEMAPE.
Module 5 · in French
Covers: the mining cycle and planning; copper-cobalt minerals and deposit types; exploration adapted to artisanal mining; open-pit and underground techniques, including the management of underground structures; and the Mining Code, Regulations and EGC standard.
Trains: cooperative managers and artisanal miners above all, with experienced miners and trainers.
Compendium · in French
Covers: all five modules in one file.
Trains: the same readers as the modules.
C4D’s paper says a fifth module was created “focusing specifically on safety issues related to deep pits”, backed by a survey of deep shafts. The published module 5 is a general course on artisanal mining techniques, from the mining cycle to mine closure; it does include sections on underground mining and on managing underground structures (pp.52–64). The deep-shaft survey is not published. The two accounts differ in emphasis, and both are given here.
SAEMAPE, the state service that supervises artisanal mining, describes the same five modules on its own page. SAEMAPE’s modules page ↗
The organisations that developed or use them each have a page on this hub: SAEMAPE · BGR · GIZ · EGC
Sources: the five module PDFs (imprint p.2, preface p.3, contents and audience pp.5–7), published by GIZ on 19 May 2025, and C4D’s Lessons Learned Paper (pp.23, 28, 33).
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