Assessing the Impact of Due Diligence Programs in Eastern DRC: A Baseline Study

Source: International Peace Information Service and Ulala, 2019

Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Topics: Extractive Resources, Gender, Governance, Livelihoods

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.