All You Need to Know About Responsible Cooperative Mining and Skills Development Programme
The Responsible Cooperative Mining and Skills Development Programme (rCOMSDEP) was launched on August 6, 2025, as a refined Community Mining Scheme and National Alternative Employment and Livelihood Programme.
The rCOMSDEP is fundamentally designed to achieve sustainable community transformation by promoting and facilitating environmentally responsible cooperative mining; providing vocational, technical, agricultural, digital, and entrepreneurial training to youth and women; and restoring lands degraded by illegal mining for productive use in agriculture, forestry and other income-generating activities.
The policy is geared towards addressing the root causes of illegal mining while delivering tangible benefits to affected communities.
“The key justifications for this strategic intervention are to combat illegal mining operations, generate sustainable employment opportunities, elevate living standards in mining communities, enhance worker safety, implement environmentally responsible mining practices, formalise the artisanal mining sector and safeguard critical natural resources.”
Below Is All You Need to Know About rCOMSDEP:
