Bakary GUINDO has been Director of Assistance for Promotion and Partnership of the Chamber of Mines of Mali since April 2012. To this end, his mission consists among other things of assisting the mining artisans of Mali to regroup in Cooperative Societies, this having led to the creation of the National Confederation of Cooperative Societies of Orpailleurs of Mali (CNSCOM-COOP-CA) and a hundred cooperatives at different levels. Mr. GUINDO is also a consultant for many cooperative movements in Mali such as the Unions and the Confédération Nationale des Sociétés Coopératives d'habitat du Mali, the basic cooperative societies, Cooperative Unions and women’s cooperative federations in various fields in Mali (mining crafts, exploitation of building materials, etc.)
The event promotes exchange on challenges and best practices to sustain and advance efforts to prevent and effectively eradicate child labour in the artisanal mineral supply chain.