The whole chain, at one table.
No single company can fix artisanal cobalt alone, and disengaging only removes the leverage to try. The FCA convenes the entire supply chain, pre-competitively, to act together at the source.
Why collaboration is the only way forward.
The cobalt supply chain runs from a cooperative in Kolwezi through refiners and component makers to the carmakers and electronics brands whose products depend on it. A problem at the mine is everyone's problem, but no one link can solve it alone.
The FCA is the pre-competitive space where those links meet: cooperatives on the ground, refiners, battery manufacturers, automotive and electronics companies, financial institutions, government bodies, academics and civil society. Competitors share the cost and the work of change they could not deliver separately.
That collaboration is what turns demand for responsible cobalt into investment that actually reaches the mine, and what keeps the standards, data and oversight credible across the whole chain.
Turning a supply chain into an alliance.
Pre-competitive platform
A neutral space where competitors collaborate on shared, non-commercial problems.
Pooled investment
Member contributions, scaled to cobalt dependency, fund the on-the-ground programme.
Shared standards
A common ASM cobalt framework, developed with industry standard-setters, that everyone can rely on.
Government & civil society
State bodies and Congolese organisations at the table, including representation for artisanal miners.
We offer a platform for collaboration in a pre-competitive environment. Collaboration is the only way forward: cooperatives, refiners, manufacturers, carmakers, government and civil society, working on the same problem.The Fair Cobalt Alliance
Add your link to the chain.
If your business touches cobalt, there is a place for you in the Alliance, and a share of the work to take on.