The Fund for Peace (FFP), a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO), through its Responsive Engagements and Collective Learning Approaches to Inform Mercury Substitution (RECLAIMS) project is seeking to reduce mercury use in Artisanal and Small-Scale gold mining (ASGM) in Ghana. They plan to achieve this by incentivizing less-harmful alternatives for gold processing and addressing the technical and methodological gaps in the adoption of these alternatives. Speaking with members of the Journalists for Business Advocacy (JBA) at a capacity building in Accra, the Programmes Director of Fund For Peace, Wendy Wilson, noted that in the medium- to long-term, this will lead to improved licensing, regulation, and oversight of the ASGM sector and address current policy challenges to reduce environmental, health, and other vulnerabilities and risks. She explained that the RECLAIMS-ASGM project seeks to address the ASGM issues at three different levels: local, regional and national/policy. At the loc...