rCOMSDEP Boss Ama Mawusi Pledges Jobs, Finance, and Follow-Up for Artisanal Miners

Story by Fada Amakye

The Responsible Cooperative Mining and Skills Development Programme (rCOMSDEP) says its mission goes beyond classroom training, with a new focus on job retention, income growth, and financial inclusion to ensure artisanal miners stay productive long after graduation.

National Coordinator Ama Mawusi Mawuenyefia made the pledge while addressing stakeholders, emphasizing that the program is designed for long-term, sustained impact.

Our goal is not simply to train participants,” Mawusi said. “Employment retention, income improvements, formative growth, a long term sustained… More importantly, we will provide guidance to refine implementation strategies, strengthen policy decisions, and ensure that no beneficiary is left behind after the training.

Mawusi said rCOMSDEP is aligning efforts with sister agencies including the National Association of Small Scale Miners, NAIG, and key players in the financial sector such as GCB Bank and Consolidated Bank Ghana.

She noted that the collaboration is already “creating a tiny six units of continuous trade and institutional metric financial inclusion” to help beneficiaries access credit, markets, and formal structures.

The National Coordinator stressed that policy guidance and implementation reviews will be central to rCOMSDEP’s work, so lessons from the field feed directly into stronger government decisions.

We will provide guidance to refine implementation strategies, strengthen policy decisions, and ensure that no beneficiary is left behind after the training,” she reiterated.

She closed by congratulating the rCOMSDEP team and partners, saying the program’s success will be measured not by certificates issued, but by jobs kept, incomes raised, and miners formally integrated into Ghana’s economy.