Stories from the Field
Building bridges from mineral revenues
Imagine a small town in a lush green landscape with two mighty rivers running through it. Residents – farmers, nurses, children, merchants, mothers, miners, teachers – all going about their daily business. The town is called Bihambwe, located in North Kivu province in...
Potential set-back from low mineral prices
Before the iTSCi programme was implemented across the Great Lakes Region, the extraction of tin, tantalum, and tungsten (3Ts) ore was characterized by high levels of fraud with little monitoring of prices, taxes or other activities taking place in the mines, at...
Encouraging children away from work at mines
In the DRC, in common with other artisanal mining areas around the world, children can be drawn into extraction, crushing, washing and transportation of minerals, often to help their families with income, pay for school fees, or cover their basic needs. Although the...
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Press Releases
Reflecting on a decade of success at the OECD’s 14th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
ITSCI was proud to host a partner session at the OECD’s 14th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains on 26 April 2021. We thank our panel of government partners, stakeholders, members and experts for their participation and reflections on ITSCI’s decade of...
ITSCI’s session at the OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
A decade of success: Reflections and lessons learned from ITSCI by the International Tin Association ITSCI will host a partner session at the OECD - OCDE’s 14th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains on 26 April 2021. Since 2010, the International Tin Supply Chain...
ITSCI Programme Incident & Outcome Review Nov 2019 to Oct 2020
ITSCI has issued its 2019/2020 Incident Review. The report gives an overview of the success of stakeholders working with the ITSCI Programme to achieve risk mitigation relating to mineral supply chains from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and...
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