Our Programs
Women in Mining Kenya (WIM Kenya) implements four core programs that address the structural, economic, safety, and knowledge gaps affecting women in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). These programs are designed to promote formalization, financial empowerment, land security, market access, and evidence-based decision-making across the gold value chain.
This program focuses on supporting the formalization of women-led artisanal gold mining groups through registration support, and governance strengthening. It enables women miners to transition from informal mining activities into legally recognized entities that can engage with government institutions, financial systems, and formal gold markets.
Through policy engagement and institutional linkages, the program enhances women miners’ access to legal recognition, regulatory compliance, financial services, and ethical market opportunities, strengthening their long-term sustainability and visibility within the mining sector.
This program provides comprehensive training in financial literacy, business development, and entrepreneurship to enable women miners to become bankable, financially literate, and economically independent. The training supports women to manage mining enterprises, keep financial records, and access credit and investment opportunities.
The program also integrates Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment (OSHE) training to promote safe mining practices, reduce workplace accidents, and equip women miners with skills to prevent and respond to emergencies, ensuring healthier and more productive mining environments.
This program supports women miners to secure land ownership and land-use rights while strengthening their ability to negotiate fair access to mining sites, processing facilities, and markets. It addresses structural barriers that limit women’s participation in profitable and formal mining value chains.
By improving negotiation skills, market linkages, and access to better facilities and pricing, the program enhances women miners’ bargaining power and enables more equitable participation across the gold value chain.
This program focuses on research, data collection, documentation, and storytelling within the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector. It enables WIM Kenya to form partnerships with research institutions, development organizations, and industry actors to generate evidence that informs policy, programming, and investment.
Through research outputs, case studies, documentaries, and collective stories, the program ensures that women miners’ experiences, contributions, and challenges are documented, visible, and used to influence decision-making at local, national, and international levels.