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Community Organizations Southern Africa Resource Watch
Southern Africa Resource Watch
Southern Africa Resource Watch
Acronym
SARW
Civil Society Organization

Focal point

Dr. Claude Kabemba
Phone number
+27 11 587 5000

Location

148 Jan Smuts Avenue
Rosebank
Gauteng
South Africa
Working languages
English

Advocacy and research organisation, aiming to monitor corporate and state conduct in the extraction and beneficiation of natural resources in Southern Africa region, in particular assessing to what extent these efforts contribute to sustainable development”.

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Resources

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South African banks footprint in SADC mining projects: environmental, social and governance principles

december, 2016
South Africa

Environmental,  social  and  governance  (ESG)  concerns  are  an  increasingly  important  factor worldwide for banks when they invest in large projects. In the Southern African region with its rich mineral deposits, this trend has added importance. Mining companies extract minerals from the ground, and their activities routinely give rise to public concerns about the pollution of water sources, adequate land for agriculture, and fair community participation in mining projects.

Myths and mining: the reality of resource governance in Africa

december, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Northern Africa
Western Asia

In Africa, mining activities are undertaken by private foreign entities, which pay taxes to the state. However, mining activities are not contributing as much as they should to national economies. Despite the increase in productivity and profits, the real benefits of mining have yet to be felt by the majority of the people, especially mining communities.

Consultative conference on peace agreements and conflict minerals in the DRC

december, 2012
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Thess proceedings are the result of a conference hald in Kinshasa, 2013, to discuss the impact of key peace agreements and the trade in conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Representatives from Congolese academia, civil society, government agencies and political parties reflected on the different peace agreements and conflict minerals in general and the potential impact of the latest Framework Agreement on Peace and Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes Region signed in Addis Ababa in particular.

Conflict gold to criminal gold: the new face of artisanal gold mining in Congo

december, 2011
Democratic Republic of the Congo

The objective of this research report was to establish whether, and to what extent, post-conflict efforts at national, regional and international levels are improving the situation of artisanal gold-mining communities in the provinces of Orientale, North and South Kivu, and Maniema in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The research proceeded from the assumption that legal and regulatory instruments and institutions created after the 2006 elections to regularise and support the DRC’s informal mining sector should now be starting to show positive effects.

Impact of the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI) on the promotion of transparency and accountability in Southern and East Africa

december, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa

The first regional conference for southern and East Africa on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was held in Cape Town on 21st May 2012. The overall aim was to evaluate the EITI’s impact on the promotion of transparency and accountability in southern and East Africa. Its specific objectives included: