Publications Promoting Legal Mineral Trade in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
| Property | Value |
| Name | Promoting Legal Mineral Trade in Africa’s Great Lakes Region |
| Description | This new report assesses efforts within the private and non‐profit sectors to help ensure minerals from Eastern Democratic Republic ofthe Congo (DRC) benefit the populationrather than fund armed groups; it furthers the policy debate on how to promote legal mineral trade in Eastern DRC (EDRC) through professionalisation, formalisation and increased transparency. The authors suggest policies aimed to increase the implementability and effectiveness of existing and proposed efforts to better understand the origin of minerals, reducecorruption and increase fiscal benefit to the DRC. By examining the Congolese Government’s and internationally driven approaches to regulating the trade, the authors assess likely outcomes in the challenging implementation environment in EDRC and argue that sustainable implementation requires larger economic and security sector reform efforts and must be compatible with the prevalent political and economic incentive structures of the mineral trade’s stakeholders. Looking to the short and medium term, the authors provide a set of policy proposals to realign these incentive structures to support a more developmentally effective trade that benefits the Congolese people. The report reveals the necessity of leadership from the Congolese Government as well as the need for co‐ordination and consolidation of different conceptual approaches as well as political and financial support from the international community. In particular the authors argue for the implementation of a transparency process at the export stage, where the Congolese Government already taxes a significant proportion of the mineral trade. |
| Filename | RCS_Legal Trade in Great Lakes.pdf |
| Filesize | 2.3 MB |
| Filetype | pdf (Mime Type: application/pdf) |
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