Risk and impact mapping of mineral supply chains from mine to export to evaluate and assess the potential for mitigation interventions and positive impact generation.

Enabling our clients to not only understand their supply chains but also the main actors that form them, their incentives, the risks involved, the possible mitigation strategies as well as the existing potential for positive impact.

In addition to supply chains under the limelight (gold or cobalt, for example) our work also focuses on some of the currently least explored supply chains (talc, sapphires, or semi-precious gemstones, for example).

Design and support the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects to ensure and enhance the positive impacts of mineral supply chains. In particular with vulnerable groups such as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) stakeholders.

We support our clients’ engagement with supply chain stakeholders, including miners and communities, to co-design, co-implement, co-monitor, and/or co-evaluate projects that mitigate risks and enhance positive impacts. This support includes both the formalisation and improvement of ASM operators as well as the improvement of community-oriented practices for industrial mines.

Assessment and advisory on engagement and gap closure for mining operations or specific supply chains from artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operators to industrial mines.

We support our clients’ alignment with regulatory requirements, corporate policies, voluntary initiatives, and existing best practices. Our evaluations are undertaken against the OECD Due Diligence Guidance and the IFC Performance standards, as well as client-specific requirements such as issues relating to social life-cycle assessment, environmental benchmarks, or more specific issues

Facilitation and coordination of thematic working groups on responsible mining and supply chains. Generating knowledge, and, when needed, facilitating collective action.

Facilitation of dialogue-based network learning, as well as generation and dissemination of peer-generated knowledge and best practices.

Supporting multi-actor initiatives and collective action for strengthening responsible mining practices, and providing training on established practices and methodologies.