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In 2025 SOM, with the International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative, will be delivering an Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) project, working in 4 resource poor countries, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Brazil and Columbia. SOM is now looking to contract with an Academic consultancy or Academic team at a University to:

- Carry out a literature review of the scale and nature of ASM in the four countries, provide global context and recommendations for global regulation and best practice, identifying what health services and policy, legislation, and regulation currently exist related to ASM.

Currently the project will cover the whole range of health problems which may be related to artisanal mining but a focus is likely in terms of type of mining.

- Work with IOMSC countries to identify where ASM is taking place in the four countries, the scale of the affected populations, and train IOMSC contacts about data collection - broken down data by gender and other relevant factors ensuring that specific issues in relation to gender and child labour are addressed. Local Occupational Medicine society representatives will be responsible for data collection, including administering of the questionnaire and the collection of the testimonials of miners and their families. Local Occupational Medicine society representatives will also administer questionnaires and translate. There will be local meetings to help onsite input.

- Identify through questionnaire design and ideally a data collection tool the major health related issues and prevalence of occupational health issues, increasing understanding among ASM workers about the hazards they, and their communities, face and how to mitigate those.

- Compile case studies and testimonials from workers and their families from the four countries so that their voices are effectively represented.

- Collate findings/data, and publish a detailed report making recommendations for change based on local experience which will increase awareness and understanding of ASM, and the associated health and environmental risks and hazards, amongst businesses, regulators, policymakers, media and public.

SOM has a budget of £22,300. See attached draft project plan. There is also an additional questionnaire design budget of £900. SOM will use the expertise of Consultants in Occupational Medicine to implement the project.

Please send a short proposal, specifically demonstrating your knowledge of ASM and global research in this area (no more than 4 pages) to: nick.pahl@som.org.uk by 15th November. Project start date 1st January 2025.

Closing Date: 2024-11-15 00:00:00