The United Nations agency for children. In the DRC's copper-cobalt provinces it runs TPS+, a model of para-social workers and community social contracts against child labour in mining, and reported 1,015 children removed from mines in 2024. It was named in November 2020 as sole administrator of a Global Battery Alliance fund for preventing child labour in mining communities in Lualaba and Haut-Katanga, and in August 2021 announced a technical cooperation with RCS Global on a child-rights toolkit for artisanal mining, within a UNICEF project financed by the German government's “We Stop Child Labor” fund. In June 2026 it announced a child-labour project with the Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi Humanitarian Foundation in the Kambove health zone of Haut-Katanga. UNICEF says its figure of 361,000 children refers to children in various hazardous work in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba; AFREWATCH, for Congolese civil society, has stated reservations about that figure. UNICEF also hosts a 2021 study of children in artisanal mining zones of Lualaba and South Kivu, published by the DRC's Ministry of Planning and funded by GIZ.
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Strategic partnership announced in June 2026, in which KSQF supports UNICEF's child-labour project in the Kambove health zone of Haut-Katanga. The announcement states no amount, so no funding is recorded.
The project builds on UNICEF’s TPS+ model, first piloted in 2023.
Announced in November 2020 as the fund's sole administrator and programmer, in the future tense; no later item on the fund was found.
The Fund for the Prevention of Child Labour in Mining Communities - A Global Battery Alliance Collaboration will be exclusively administered and programmed by UNICEF
UNICEF announced in June 2026 that it would deliver the Kambove project, building on its TPS+ model.
The project builds on UNICEF’s TPS+ model, first piloted in 2023.
UNICEF runs the TPS+ model of para-social workers and community social contracts in Lualaba, Haut-Katanga and Haut-Lomami, and builds its Kambove project on it. UNICEF is the only source.
The project builds on UNICEF’s TPS+ model, first piloted in 2023.
L’approche novatrice du Travail Social de Modélisation (TPS + Contrats sociaux) consiste à former un corps de travailleurs para-sociaux (TPS)
Technical cooperation announced in August 2021 to co-develop a child-rights toolkit for artisanal mining, to be trialled on at least two Better Mining sites, within UNICEF's Mitigating Child Rights Deprivations in ASM Communities Project, financed by the German government's “We Stop Child Labor” fund. It was scheduled to complete and begin international adoption by June 2022; completion is not established.
The project is scheduled to complete and begin international adoption by June 2022.