About Afai Consulting
We work across the globe with clients in need of reliable data and knowledge for decision making on their mineral supply chains or specific topics within the mining sector, such as artisanal and small-scale mining. We bring clarity to mineral supply chains both in and out of the limelight and have experience working with a diversity of minerals across the spectrum from construction, battery, and industrial minerals to precious metals and (semi)precious stones.
We also develop projects to assure and/or enhance responsibility at any step of the mineral supply chains our clients already work with or want to. To do so we operationalise international best practices and standards to tailor their implementation to complex environments.
Our clients include both upstream and downstream stakeholders, as well as public and private sector actors such as: jewellers and watchmakers, banks, industrial metal users, miners, traders, policy makers and development agencies, as well as local and global civil society.
Always bespoke and tailored to the needs of our clients our work can be broadly characterised as falling under four general categories:
Integration of ASM in global supply chains
Supply chain and sector evaluations
Capacity building
Supplier evaluation
As support for our work under the categories mentioned above, we have developed assessment criteria, tools, and analysis framework based on relevant standards and certifications (OECD, IFC, CRAFT, etc…) as well as expertise in the development and onshoring of ASM standards.
Our field-based mineral experience

To complement our in-house expertise, we count on a network of around a hundred subject-matter experts and local experts in different territories. Together we respond to the needs of each project, by bringing to the fore key contextual information that can only be produced with such a combination of know-how.