iTSCi teams make 1,500 visits this quarter

iTSCi teams have made around 1,500 visits to mines and exporters as well as stakeholder committees in four Central Africa countries this quarter. This work is a vital part of the iTSCi programme, observing first-hand exactly how the traceability and due diligence...

iTSCi wins 2017 International CSR Excellence Award

The iTSCi programme continues to win awards for its outstanding contribution to sustainable supply chain management. Already recognised in January as a key contributor to ITRI being named edie Sustainability Leader 2017, iTSCi has now won an International CSR...

iTSCi lead ranked #9 in 2017 Top 100 Conflict Minerals Leaders

iTSCi lead Kay Nimmo, ITRI has been listed #9 in the Assent Compliance Top 100 Conflict Mineral Leaders this year, up from #15 in 2016. This recognises her wide ranging influence across global upstream industries in promoting conflict mineral due diligence, including...

iTSCi incidents referenced in Apple’s 2016 CMR

Apple’s Conflict Minerals Report (CMR) for the period of 2016 has recently been published here.  The CMR notes 15 incidents in which individuals identified as members or potential members of ‘armed groups’ were alleged to be involved. Of these, the...

Downstream funding the ‘middle path’ on due diligence costs

A recent paper by one the original champions of mineral supply chain due diligence, Gregory Mthembu-Salter, has questioned recent published criticism of upstream due diligence systems such as iTSCi, highlighting a failure to recognise that some negative trade offs,...