Dr Maria Laura Barreto, Patrick Schein, Dr Jennifer Hinton, Felix Hruschka, January 2018
This report of the East Africa Research Fund (EARF) project ‘Understanding the Economic Contribution of Small-scale Mining in East Africa’ addresses the first of three main objectives of the Terms of Reference, namely to conduct an overarching synthesis to understand the impact of small-scale mining operations on economies and livelihoods in low to middle income countries, and explore the implications for three case study countries Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda in East Africa.