Assessing the Impact of Due Diligence Programs in Eastern DRC: A Baseline Study
Publisher: International Peace Information Service and Ulala
Date: 2019
Topics: Extractive Resources, Gender, Governance, Livelihoods
Countries: Congo (DRC)
Between the year 2016 and 2018, the authors visited a total of 623 mine sites that employed an estimated 115,500 artisanal miners. Half of these mines were covered by due diligence programmes and a majority (52 percent) of them produced 3T minerals (cassiterite, coltan and wolframite and their derivatives, tin, tantalum, and tungsten), while the rest were mainly producing gold. During field visits, IPIS surveyors collected information on the conditions of extraction as well as phone numbers from a panel of 8,735 artisanal miners and community members in 19 pre-defined mining zones.