AGC celebrates Eve Sanou winning AWIMA Leadership Awards

On June 11, 2024, AGC was honoured when one of its consultants, Eve SANOU, won the AWIMA LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2024 for Burkina Faso in Accra, Ghana.

AWIMA Leadership Awards recognize African women in mining, promoting their leadership and building a more balanced industry.

Embracing the theme “Empowering African women in mining: Breaking barriers, building futures,” AWIMA Leadership Awards celebrates their achievements and equips them to forge a powerful path for themselves and the sector.

Organized by the African Women in Mining Association(AWIMA), this prestigious event aims to recognize and honor women leaders in the mining industry across Africa.

AWIMA Leadership Awards 2024 isn’t just an award ceremony, it’s a groundbreaking initiative promoting gender diversity, equality, and inclusion in mining leadership across Africa. It celebrates the extraordinary accomplishments of women in the extractive industries.

Eve SANOU is dedicated to making small-scale mining safer in Burkina by implementing the measures of the CRAFT code. Her commitment to promoting responsible practices, improving working conditions and reducing risks for artisanal miners is essential to creating a safer and more sustainable environment in the country.

Her dedication and impact have earned her a prestigious place in AWIMA's Hall of Fame through the ASM Award.

Eve focuses its efforts on encouraging mineral producers to promote sustainable land use practices, but also to be more responsible and committed to the inclusive and sustainable development of their communities through the application of the principles of the CRAFT code.  

As an auditor, she plays an important role in thedetection of risks related to the responsible gold supply chain, and especiallyin the area of mandatory human rights due diligence at both internal andexternal levels of mining companies, through the implementation of supply chaintraceability systems that enable the identification of information on theresponsible minerals supply chain.

This enables her to reinforce the involvement of companies with their suppliers, with regard to the recommendations of the Guide, in order to determine the compliance of the due diligence process with the standards and processes described in the OECD Due Diligence Guide. Eve is also a trainer and facilitator in capacity-building for artisanal mineral producers on the CRAFT code and occupational health and safety (OHS).

AGC Executive Director René Roger Tissot and the entire staff congratulate Eve SANOU on this prestigious award.