Helping artisanal operators prove responsible sourcing and reach a bank.
The Holistic Due Diligence Framework for Energy Transition Minerals lets upstream operators in the DRC digitise their own information once, then reuse it to manage risk, prove responsible sourcing, and reach both global buyers and the local banking system.
Visit the project on Nashiriki View its entry in the sector dataWhat the framework addresses: fragmented information.
The framework addresses a lack of reliable, locally-sourced information for responsible sourcing and finance in artisanal mining. Know-your-customer and supply-chain assessments today rest on periodic, expensive third-party audits that few operators can afford, so those operators stay invisible to buyers and banks alike.
Holistic Due Diligence enables mining and trade operators to digitise their own data and civil-society organisations to document local realities, then connects the two so one set of verified information serves risk management, compliance, and access to markets and legitimate finance. It is an EPRM-funded project, sponsored also by Trust Merchant Bank, from the local banking sector.
It runs on Datastake applications. Nashiriki carries independent civil-society observation and KOTA carries banking onboarding today; Hatua, for cooperative self-assessment, is in development. Because the applications share one core, a bank can cross-reference what an operator files in KOTA against civil-society observations in Nashiriki.
Filed once, reused for buyers and banks.
Nashiriki and KOTA carry the framework today, and each card links to its live application. Hatua is in development.
Hatua: in development
A cooperative self-assessment tool, still in development. It is designed so a cooperative or trader records its own supply-chain due diligence once and reuses it for every buyer and bank that asks.
Nashiriki: corroborate it
Civil-society organisations document local realities in Nashiriki, so a buyer or bank can cross-reference that same information against independent observation.
KOTA: reuse it for a bank
The operator reuses the verified information to apply for banking services in KOTA, crowdsourcing the KYC that opens formal finance.
A coalition across the value chain.
Each organisation engages from where it stands: sponsors, an implementer, a coordinator, a partner and an observer.
EPRM
Trust Merchant Bank
Fair Cobalt Alliance
Umicore
Hive
La SentinelleEPRM (European Partnership for Responsible Minerals) and TMB sponsor; Hive coordinates; La Sentinelle implements locally; the Fair Cobalt Alliance is a partner and Umicore an observer. Two Congolese operators, Amical Kakana Mining and the Coopérative Minière et Agricole Mikuba du Lualaba, are named as implementing partners on EPRM’s own project page; the cooperative also appears in the funder’s programme data as CMAML.
Active, and built on shared infrastructure.
HDD is an active, EPRM-funded project running in the DRC copper-cobalt belt. The due-diligence information stays with the operator who files it: digitise once, reuse for compliance, market access and finance.
Because the Datastake applications share one infrastructure and interoperate, the framework is designed to scale beyond cobalt to other energy-transition minerals, and to let new interfaces plug into the same verified information over time.
Its connections across the sector
Every organisation and site the sector data connects to it, grouped by the kind of link. Each name opens its own page, with the dates and sources of the link.
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Holistic Due Diligence is one of dozens of programmes in the ASM cobalt space. Browse the full register, or tell us what is missing.