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Opinion
24 Mar, 2023

How to provide access to healthcare to artisanal cobalt miners in the DR Congo

In this guest blog post, Dr. Julius Emmrich, co-founder of Elucid Social, shares Elucid’s work on reducing financial barriers to healthcare in agri supply chains and the replication of this approach to the artisanal mining sector in the DR Congo.   Access to healthcare is a human right.  In sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 10% […]

Fair Cobalt Alliance
22 Mar, 2023

Establishing fair trading practices at artisanal cobalt mine sites

One of the Fair Cobalt Alliance’s three strategic objectives is increasing the incomes of artisanal miners and their wider community. Key to that strategy is ensuring fair value retention at the point of mineral sales.

Fair Cobalt Alliance
15 Mar, 2023

VSLAs – building peer-to-peer networks to strengthen financial resilience

VSLAs: What are they? Voluntary Savings and Loans Associations Reason for creation? Despite the increased income of artisanal miners compared to their peers in sectors such as agriculture, they are still poverty-stricken due to the mismanagement of their resources and the lack of financial education. Voluntary Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are designed to support […]

Children's Rights
7 Mar, 2023

Child Labour Remediation Hub for the DRC’s Mining Sector

This is an excerpt from the FCA 2022 Annual Impact and Finance Report authored by Ines Kaempfer, CEO of The Centre for Child Rights and Business, on the support provided to children working at mine sites, in collaboration with local organisations, to provide them with a path away from mining.   The Child Labour Remediation […]

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  • Home
  • Past Events
  • Approach
    • Professionalizing artisanal mine sites
    • Safeguarding Children’s Rights
    • Building a thriving and diverse local economy
    • Monitoring our Impact
  • Supply chain wide collaboration
    • Local Partners
    • Our Members
    • Advisory Board Members
    • Join the Fair Cobalt Alliance
  • About us
    • About Us
    • Governance
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact us
  • Resources and Knowledge Hub
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    • Policies and Minutes
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