SECTOR

Responsible Mining

Run community care, worker safety, and artisanal mining programs around every site, offline in the field.

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◆  Community care
Health & safety
Artisanal mining

The Challenge

Programs around mining sites serve scattered communities and a mixed workforce, and have to show their health, safety, and environmental results.

Remote sites, little connectivity

Mining communities often sit far beyond reliable network coverage.

Formal and informal workers

Artisanal miners work outside the oversight that covers formal employees.

Proving accountability

Buyers, regulators, and communities expect evidence, not paper forms.

CommCare in action

CommCare for Mining Programs

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Highlight 1 · Safety

From a hazard to a verified fix

  • Every hazard gets an owner and a due date
  • Each fix is closed with proof that it was made
  • Works for formal workers and artisanal miners alike
Highlight 2 · Community

Grievances closed with the community

  • Log a grievance where it is raised
  • Follow it through to a resolution
  • It closes only when the person who raised it agrees
Highlight 3 · Health

Hypertension screening, village to health post

  • Screen during community visits
  • Refer to the health post in the same workflow
  • Every visit tied to a household record
Highlight 4 · Supervise

Live dashboards for every supervisor

  • Activity, coverage, and follow-up in one view
  • Coverage by area, so gaps show up early
  • Real-time visibility instead of paper forms

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PLATFORM WALKTHROUGHS

Short tours of the mining app

Four quick looks at how field teams and supervisors use CommCare around a mining site.

  • Walkthrough 01

    Registering and Tracking Mining-Adjacent Communities

    How field agents register communities around a mining site and keep their records current over time, the foundation every other workflow builds on.

  • Walkthrough 02

    Health Education Sessions and Disease Surveillance

    A look at how community health workers log outreach sessions and flag disease trends as they happen, right from the field.

  • Walkthrough 03

    Environmental Monitoring Linked to Health Outcomes

    Environmental data collection connected directly to community health indicators, so cause and effect aren’t left to guesswork.

  • Walkthrough 04

    Safety Checklists for Workers and Artisanal Miners

    Digital safety checklists that bring formal workers and informal artisanal miners into the same standard of oversight.

The scenario videos above follow one case on the demo project, from the phone to the web dashboard. The people and records in them are fictional demo data.

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PARTNER STORIES

Mining programs built on CommCare

Featured Program

Better Gold Initiative: responsible gold, traceable from the ground up

The Better Gold Initiative, a public-private partnership between the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the Swiss Better Gold Association, helps artisanal and small-scale mines in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru join responsible, certifiable gold supply chains.

With Projekt Consult and Dimagi, it replaced paper-based verification with CommCare. Field agents register and score each mine from a tablet at the site, giving one source of truth across three countries that gold buyers in Switzerland can trust.

  • SECO
  • Swiss Better Gold Association
  • Projekt Consult
4-stage certification pathway, fully digitized
  1. 1

    Registration & eligibility

    Field agents register each mine and screen it for eligibility.

  2. 2

    Gap analysis, round one

    A first scored assessment against the initiative’s staged certification criteria.

  3. 3

    Gap analysis, round two

    A second scored assessment before final verification.

  4. 4

    Verification

    Final sign-off as a certified responsible gold producer.

  • Green
  • Yellow
  • Red

Each stage produces an automatic recommendation that routes agents to a quick-fix plan, a longer improvement plan, or sign-off to move forward. Country coordinators can override any score.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Mining FAQs

Program Fit

Can CommCare support community health programs around mining sites?
Yes. Field agents register the communities around a mining site, log health education sessions, and flag disease trends from the field, with every visit tied to a household record.
Can CommCare reach artisanal and small-scale miners?
Yes. Digital safety checklists bring informal artisanal miners and formal workers under the same standard of oversight. The Better Gold Initiative uses CommCare to move artisanal and small-scale mines through a staged certification pathway.
Can CommCare support health, safety, and environment (HSE) work?
Yes. Teams run safety inspections, report incidents, and collect environmental data linked to community health indicators, while supervisors follow up from live dashboards.

Data & Getting Started

Does CommCare work at remote sites with no connectivity?
Yes, CommCare is offline-first. Field teams collect data with little or no network coverage, and everything syncs automatically when connectivity returns.
Can apps run in more than one language?
Yes. A single CommCare app can run in several languages. The mining walkthroughs on this page were built and demonstrated in both French and English.
How do we get started?
Tell us about your sites and goals using the form on this page. Our team will help you scope the program and configure CommCare for it.
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Running a program around a mining site? Let’s talk.

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