For decades ASM has maintained generational poverty associated with financial crime and “cash-rich” informal work, without ever realizing the potential economic benefits of rural poverty reduction. As a result, the impacts on the human condition and the environment have reached unprecedented levels, while the global value chain has produced invaluable wealth due to the lack of formalization and transparency. It's in this acknowledgment of failure that our organization works to assist governments, companies and independent organizations in the development, implementation and monitoring of holistic policies and practices for the formalization of ASM to achieve the 2030 SDG"s.