Demonstrating the EnvironmentaL, Social & Economic Impact of Improved Retorts in ASGM Communities for P2P Gold Programme in Kenya & TZ

Solidaridad Network is an international solution-oriented civil society organization working through eight regional expertise centres to transform markets to make them more sustainable and inclusive. Our eight regional expertise centres include Asia, Eastern and Central Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, Southern Africa, South America, West Africa and our global Secretariat in the Netherlands. Solidaridad Eastern and Central Africa, one of the regional centres, is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with country offices and programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. We bring together supply chain players and engage them through innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximizes benefits for all. We facilitate strengthening of local capacity in developing countries, support the creation of enabling environments for economies to thrive, and improve market access. Solidaridad embraces public-private and people partnerships (PPPP) to test innovations, accelerate change, and scale success. Globally, Solidaridad works around Coffee and other 12 commodities/sectors ([http://www.solidaridadnetwork.org](http://www.solidaridadnetwork.org))

The Pathways to Prosperity Gold programme has an overall goal of achieving a thriving ASGM sector that is economically profitable, socially responsible, and environmentally sound by 2029. The project aims to achieve this by having an increased number of ASGM with grown, diversified, sustainable and resilient mining businesses with improved working conditions, having a vibrant ASGM sector that has access to mining technologies, equipment and geological data and down and middle stream companies sourcing for sustainable and inclusive gold and investing in responsible mining businesses. Some of the activities that will be undertaken to achieve all of these outcomes include training and the provision of products and services (including access to finance), tailored to the needs of miners.

The Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is a 7-year project being implemented by Solidaridad Kenya and Tanzania. The project is implemented in Geita and Shinyanga regions in Tanzania and in Migori, Narok, Kakamega, and Turkana Counties in Kenya.

The Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) project has invested in reducing mercury exposure and promoting sustainable artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) through improved retorts. One retort was distributed to each of the 60 participating mines in Kenya and Tanzania, along with user training manuals. This consultancy will therefore combine refresher training, behavior-change support, and demonstration of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of improved retort use. The assignment will generate an impact story to support project learning, accountability, and communication.