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RCS provides professional and innovative research, audit, advisory and training services in the global extractive industries, conflict minerals, forestry and land investment sectors.

About RCS

Resource Consulting Services (RCS) provides professional and innovative research, audit, advisory and training in the global extractive industries, conflict minerals, forestry and land investment sectors. We work with a range of stakeholders to improve the governance, economic performance and socio-economic dividend of each of these sectors. Clients of RCS include corporations, governments, development organisations and civil society.

RCS’s services focus on five key areas:

We deliver excellence with integrity, helping to secure our clients’ long-term value while meeting their short-term requirements. We do not partake in advocacy, so our clients can contract our services with confidence. We are committed to carrying out all of our work along the principles of good practice.

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Highlights

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RCS is an EICC and GeSI approved consultancy for the Conflict Free Smelter Programme (CFS) and works to ensure compliance with the US Dodd Frank Act 1502 on conflict minerals with companies both upstream and downstream in the minerals and metals value chains

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RCS is a registered vendor with the World Bank and the Department for International Development (DFID).

Implementation Services

RCS In-House Skills

  • Integrating sustainability objectives and core company strategy;
  • Responsible supply chains, particularly conflict-free supply chains;
  • Artisanal and small-scale mining engagement;
  • Community development, including strategic community investment;
  • Country access strategies, including institutional and stakeholder analyses;
  • Chinese (and BRICS) investment patterns in Africa, including competition analysis;
  • Local sourcing;
  • Transitional contexts analysis (for investments/business), Stability indicators and early-warning;
  • Governance assessments, anti-corruption strategies and transparency mechanisms;
  • Corporate Social Responsibility audit and advisory;
  • Human Rights risk assessment and advisory;
  • Grievance procedures/alert mechanisms gap analysis and advisory
  • Political risk assessment, Political Economy and Investment strategies;

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