Organisation that has worked in the DRC since 1984. In 2013 it published Child Miners Speak, on more than 50 children working at an artisanal copper and cobalt mine in the former Katanga province, and said nearly half the communities it worked with were near artisanal mines. The Fair Cobalt Alliance reports that World Vision leads a US Department of Labor-funded consortium in which the alliance is a subgrantee; the project's name, amount and dates are not established.
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The alliance is a subgrantee in the World Vision-led, Department of Labor-funded consortium, according to its 2025 report. Single source.
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM)) to digitalise and scale the RMC system.
The Fair Cobalt Alliance's 2025 report describes a consortium led by World Vision and funded by the US Department of Labor; its name, amount and dates are not given. Single source.
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM)) to digitalise and scale the RMC system.