Democratic Republic of Congo
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Yves Bawa
country director
ybawa@pactworld.org
Noel Mondjo
program officer
nondjo@pactworld.org
Mining and the Sustainable Development Goals: ASM and LSM perspectives
October 16, 2020
Webinar recording: Leveraging Artisanal & Small-scale Mining (ASM) and Large-Scale Mining (LSM) to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Organizers: Responsible Mining Foundation,...
Mapping artisanal and small-scale mining to the Sustainable Development Goals
September 8, 2020
Pact and the University of Delaware’s Mapping Artisanal and Small-scale Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals (ASM-SDG Policy Assessment) is the first report assessing all positive and negative...
The global significance of the DRC’s battery metals
August 26, 2020
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to a variety of key metals and minerals, including cobalt, lithium and the 3T’s (tin, tungsten and tantalum), all of which are forecast to see rapid...
Pact in the Democratic Republic of Congo
August 12, 2020
A fact sheet about Pact's programming in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Formalizing artisanal mining in the DRC
July 21, 2020
Formalising artisanal mining is considered a challenge by most mining companies, especially those located in very remote countries. Regardless of the difficulties posed by training and educating...
Pact's Children Out of Mining Program in Lualaba & Haut-Lomani Provinces of DRC
July 10, 2020
One of Pact's flagship mining projects is Children Out of Mining, which launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2015. Through this program, Pact aims to address child labor in mining, which...
Pact's WORTH for miners program
July 10, 2020
WORTH is Pact’s award-winning micro-banking program that empowers individuals to lift themselves and each other out of poverty. Unique in integrating literacy training, community banking, and...
Children Out of Mining: Community engagement
July 10, 2020
Pact recognizes that any intervention to address child labor in mining must take into consideration the interconnected influences of family, community, and society on a child's life. Therefore, a...
Pact's youth apprenticeship program in Kolwezi, DRC
July 10, 2020
Since 2017, Pact has assisted 209 young artisanal miners (YAMers), from 15 to 17 years old, to thrive in an alternative trades to mining. According to the latest UNICEF estimate, roughly 40,000 young...