
The FCA publishes what it measures. This page sets out what the Alliance reports it and its local partners delivered in and around Kolwezi, and how it measures the results. The figures are self-reported and have not been independently verified.
The FCA measures impact with a monitoring and evaluation framework built on “result chains”, which links each activity to the change it is meant to produce and to the figures that track it.
At the flagship Kamilombe site, an annual perception survey asks miners themselves what is changing. The baseline datasets and questionnaires are published openly, so anyone can scrutinise the method and the numbers.
Full implementation at a mine site takes three to five years. The figures here are a snapshot of a long programme, reported in the FCA's annual Impact and Finance Reports.
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