The United Nations agency for labour. In the DRC's cobalt provinces it implemented COTECCO, a US Department of Labor-funded project against child labour in cobalt mining, and trained technicians with CISTEMA to run the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System. It launched the DRC component of GALAB, the continuation of COTECCO, in November 2024, and it leads the EU-funded CLEAR Supply Chains project, whose mining work focuses on cobalt. It also convenes the Child Labour Platform, a business network with a DRC working group.
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ILO leads the project as the lead UN agency, with FAO, ITC and UNICEF.
to leverage existing efforts in the minerals supply chain, particularly in cobalt
ILO ran COTECCO against child labour in cobalt mining, including private-sector working groups in Kolwezi, Likasi and Lubumbashi set up with the FEC's Chamber of Mines; it describes GALAB as the project's continuation.
the COTECCO Project, which is combating child labour in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with funding from the US Department of Labor
The Working Groups were established in collaboration with the Chamber of Mines of the Federation of Enterprises of the Congo (FEC)
The GALAB project will collaborate with development partners such as UNICEF, IMPACT Transform, and the PABEA-Cobalt initiative
ILO launched the project’s DRC component on 20 November 2024, for Lualaba and Haut-Katanga. Its project page gives the project’s end as 27 March 2025.
Assist the Interministerial Commission CISTEMA to tackle the issue of child labour at artisanal mining sites in developing a referral protocol
The GALAB project will collaborate with development partners such as UNICEF, IMPACT Transform, and the PABEA-Cobalt initiative
Duration 1 December 2021 - 27 March 2025 Budget US$ 15,000,000 Development partner(s) United States Department of Labor
CISTEMA and ILO trained local technicians to use the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System, and the US Department of Labor reports that ILO then handed ownership of the system to CISTEMA in June of its 2024 reporting year.
the CISTEMA has been designated to coordinate all activities related to the CLMRS
Managed by the national Interministerial Commission for Monitoring Child Labor in Artisanal Mines (CISTEMA), previously with support from ILO.