Four focus areas, one integrated programme.
Child labour, mine safety, poverty and supply-chain trust are bound together. The FCA works on all of them at once, on the ground in Kolwezi and across the cobalt supply chain. Here is how the work fits together.
The pillars of a fairer cobalt sector.
Safe & Fair ASM
Professionalising artisanal mine sites: safer practices, real equipment, fair organisation and investment in mine improvements.
Child Labour Remediation
Keeping children out of mines and in school, through referral, remediation and a route to vocational training, not bans.
Economic Resilience
Tackling poverty, the root cause, with savings groups, agriculture and enterprise so income no longer depends on the pit.
Value Chain Participation
A pre-competitive platform where the whole supply chain, from cooperative to carmaker, solves shared problems together.
Cobalt Credits tie all four together.
Cobalt Credits are how investment actually reaches the mine. Each credit funds responsible production at source, and a worker-led committee directs it into safety, child rights, governance and the environment, the same four areas the pillars address.
How Cobalt Credits workTake part in the work.
Membership, partnership and direct support all help deliver the programme on the ground.