ITSCI’s ‘25-minute chat’ with miners in DRC

Dec 9, 2019

When ITSCI expands to new areas, the team begins by establishing and training a local multi-stakeholder committee. In Bitale, ITSCI, accompanied by a delegation led by the Provincial Minister of Mines’ Cabinet Director, trained 62 participants in April 2019. The...

Boosting local businesses and Bringing peace among clans

Nov 25, 2019

In the Pangi territory, the benefits of the ITSCI programme have transformed a decades-long local conflict. Since 1975, the Nbizu, Ngozi and Kayeye clans have been in a protracted land dispute. The clans disagreed about the boundaries between each community’s land in...

Sparking Growth in ITSCI Communities in Burundi

Aug 22, 2019

In July 2019, the Burundian government stressed the importance of the mining sector, which contributes more to the national economy than the traditional exports such as coffee and tea. ITSCI covers 155 sites in 21 communes in Burundi and directly employs at least...

Mobilisation campaign against child labour in Rwanda

Mar 28, 2019

In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), composed of 17 goals aimed to be achieved by 2030. Under Goal 8, which promotes decent work and economic growth for all, target 8.7 calls for an end to child labour worldwide by 2025....

International Delegates see benefits of ITSCI first-hand

Dec 10, 2018

ITSCI and the Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) took the opportunity in organising a mine site visit on 17 October 2018 for the 150 delegates attending the 59th Tantalum Niobium International Study Center (T.I.C.) in Kigali, Rwanda. This allowed for the...

Stronger OECD implementation on the ground in DRC

Nov 15, 2018

The ITSCI traceability and due diligence programme was piloted in 2010 at one mine in DRC’s South Kivu province. Eight years later, ITSCI covers seven DRC provinces and nearly 1,000 sites where 40,000-plus artisanal miners extract and sell conflict-free 3T...