Initiative

Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Programme

The Good Shepherd Sisters' community programme in Kolwezi, run by Bon Pasteur Kolwezi with the Good Shepherd International Foundation in artisanal cobalt mining communities that include Kanina (Domaine Marial), Kabamba, Mukoma, Musonoi, Kapata and Kisote. It covers child protection, education, alternative livelihoods, women's economic empowerment, healthcare through a mobile clinic and community advocacy; the Bon Pasteur Centre in Kanina, inaugurated in September 2019, has 14 classrooms for about 1,000 children. Its start is dated 2012 by GSIF's report and the sisters' arrival in Kolwezi, and 2013 by GSIF's programme page and its first strategic plan (2013–2017); the current plan runs from 2024 to 2028. That plan names its international funders as including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes-Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google and Manos Unidas, lists Porticus for funds and training, and expects European Union support from 2024 through a project with IMPACT. ERG says it has supported the programme since 2017; every other funder rests on the plan alone.

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  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Implements

    Bon Pasteur Kolwezi, the local development partner of GSIF, runs the programme in Kolwezi's artisanal mining communities under its 2024–2028 strategic plan.

    2 sources
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      PDF p.46 (funders; EU support from 2024 through a project with IMPACT); p.47 (GSIF: funding, training, international advocacy); p.48 (stakeholder table: Porticus “Funds, Training”; IMPACT “Partnership on specific projects, Advocacy”; GIZ on “several possible levels (Funds, Training etc)”); p.34 (C4D community component from 2019; “Since the conclusion of the project in 2022”); p.28 (“GIZ as well as the local partners Bon Pasteur, IMPACT and Artisanact”); p.3 (arrival in Kolwezi on 25 March 2012).

    2. Good Shepherd International Foundation in DR Congo

      Good Shepherd International Foundation · Checked 2026-09-21

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi – the local development partner, affiliate with the Good Shepherd sisters – started a program in DRC

      § A Community Development Program (“In 2013, the Good Shepherd International Foundation and Bon Pasteur Kolwezi”; “GSIF partners with Bon Pasteur Kolwezi to develop and implement this program.”); schools in Kabamba, Mukoma, Musunoi, Kapata and Kisote; the Bon Pasteur Centre, inaugurated in September 2019. Footer: “Good Shepherd Intarnational Foundation ETS” (sic), © 2025.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    ERG says it has supported the Bon Pasteur programme since 2017, and Bon Pasteur's plan lists it among the programme's funders and says it supported the programme through a three-year funding agreement. No amount is given.

    2 sources
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      pp.46, 48.

    2. ERG congratulates Good Shepherd International Foundation, winner of Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Stop Slavery Hero Award 2021

      Eurasian Resources Group · Published 2021-04-15 · Checked 2026-09-21

      for its Bon Pasteur programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which ERG has supported since 2017.

      p.1; p.2, “About GSIF / Bon Pasteur”: GSIF “founded in 2008 by Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd”, supporting Bon Pasteur Kolwezi since 2012 with technical assistance in planning and management.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Named among the programme's international funders in Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan, whose stakeholder table places the collaboration with GIZ on “several possible levels (Funds, Training etc)”. Single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      pp.46, 48.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2025

    Implements

    GSIF's DR Congo page says it partners with Bon Pasteur Kolwezi to develop and implement the programme; ERG's 2021 release adds that GSIF has supported Bon Pasteur Kolwezi since 2012 with technical assistance in planning and management.

    2 sources
    1. ERG congratulates Good Shepherd International Foundation, winner of Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Stop Slavery Hero Award 2021

      Eurasian Resources Group · Published 2021-04-15 · Checked 2026-09-21

      for its Bon Pasteur programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which ERG has supported since 2017.

      p.1; p.2, “About GSIF / Bon Pasteur”: GSIF “founded in 2008 by Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd”, supporting Bon Pasteur Kolwezi since 2012 with technical assistance in planning and management.

    2. Good Shepherd International Foundation in DR Congo

      Good Shepherd International Foundation · Checked 2026-09-21

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi – the local development partner, affiliate with the Good Shepherd sisters – started a program in DRC

      § A Community Development Program (“In 2013, the Good Shepherd International Foundation and Bon Pasteur Kolwezi”; “GSIF partners with Bon Pasteur Kolwezi to develop and implement this program.”); schools in Kabamba, Mukoma, Musunoi, Kapata and Kisote; the Bon Pasteur Centre, inaugurated in September 2019. Footer: “Good Shepherd Intarnational Foundation ETS” (sic), © 2025.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Named among the programme's international funders in Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan, the single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      p.46.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Named among the programme's international funders in Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan, the single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      p.46.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Named among the programme's international funders in Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan, the single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      p.46.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Named among the programme's international funders in Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan, the single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      p.46.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Named among the programme's international funders in Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan, the single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      p.46.

  • Reported · Evidence as of 2024

    Funds

    Listed in the stakeholder table of Bon Pasteur Kolwezi's 2024–2028 plan for funds and training, the single source.

    1 source
    1. Bon Pasteur Kolwezi Theory of Change – Strategic Plan 2024-2028

      Bon Pasteur Kolwezi / Good Shepherd International Foundation · Published 2024 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The BP Kolwezi Programme is funded by various international funding actors, including Misean Cara, ERG, Mercedes Benz, GIZ, Missio Austria, Google, Begeca and Manos Unidas.

      p.48.