Not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation whose Extractive Industries Governance programme has focused on the DRC's extractive sector since 2007, with permanent offices in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi and nearly 50 staff. In April and May 2019 it took part, with BGR and SAEMAPE, in the field teams that surveyed 102 artisanal copper-cobalt mines in Lualaba and Haut-Katanga.
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The Carter Center served in BGR's joint field teams, with SAEMAPE, that surveyed 102 artisanal copper-cobalt mines in Lualaba and Haut-Katanga in April and May 2019.
Field teams were deployed to register data from a total of 102 artisanal mines producing copper and cobalt, 58 of which eventually provided detailed administrative