The United States' development agency. It worked with Cobalt for Development as a dialogue partner and co-organised C4D's 2023 workshop with Congolese authorities on legal pathways for a pilot. On 14 January 2025 it launched a US$2 million activity “conducted together with the Fair Cobalt Alliance … in collaboration with … the GIZ-funded project Cobalt 4 Development (C4D)”, according to the US Embassy in Kinshasa. C4D's paper records “severe delays in disbursement and USAID's eventual 2025 no-funding decision”, driven by USAID's dismantling, which “left a gap in engagement”; no source shows that the money was paid, and no source makes USAID a funder of C4D. The Fair Cobalt Alliance's 2025 report says its USAID funding, awarded at the end of 2024, was withdrawn shortly after, and IPIS names USAID among Kufatilia's donors over the years.
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In 2023, in collaboration with USAID, the EU delegation and other international partners, C4D organised a workshop with key Congolese authorities on legal pathways for a pilot. USAID's 2025 no-funding decision concerned the Fair Cobalt Alliance's application, which C4D had supported, and C4D's paper says it left a gap in engagement; no source makes USAID a funder of C4D.
The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of and with funding from the participating companies.
the GIZ-funded project Cobalt 4 Development (C4D)
USAID funding awarded to the alliance at the end of 2024 was withdrawn shortly after, according to the alliance's 2025 report; C4D's paper describes the same award from its side, as USAID's 2025 no-funding decision on the alliance's application.
The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of and with funding from the participating companies.
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM)) to digitalise and scale the RMC system.
IPIS names USAID among the donors that supported Kufatilia “over the years”; it is absent from the current funder list, and no period or amount is given.
Kufatilia has been supported by multiple donors over the years, including the Belgian development cooperation, the European Union, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs,