1. Brief introductory overview During the year 2014-15, the coalition of civil society in the African Great Lakes region against the illegal exploitation of natural resources, COSOC-GL, in acronym has carried out two types of activities. It is a part of political and administrative activities related to the process of its institutionalization as a regional organization and on the other hand, technical activities which relate to its vision and objectives in relation with advocacy, lobbying and the stake holders’ capacities building. These have served to support efforts in the region, in the DRC and in particularly in the province of South Kivu to establish accountable conflict free 3TG supply chain and thus in compliance with the regional mechanism for Certification, MRC set by the International Conference on the Great Lakes region. The whole of these activities has received technical and financial support from the German Technical Cooperation, essentially GIZ and BGR within the framework of the local subsidy for the benefit of the coalition including the establishment of a web site and the appointment of an international consultant for this matter. This report presents the summary of above-mentioned activities for the purposes archiving the achievements and major challenges as well as identifying the perspectives and shares them with the whole of member organizations and partners. 2. Global Context The initiatives developed by COSOC-GL are inspired by contextualized events in the 2010s including the rush of military, political and administrative authorities and many armed groups operational in eastern of Congo toward illegal mining. The mining sites had become real armed groups sanctuaries involved illegally in extractive activities which became the main sources of financing their guerrillas. The phenomenon "armed groups" for example has taken a significant sweep in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Their activism has resulted in reverse impacts at all levels thus affecting dangerously the life of local communities. Serious violations of human rights have been reported. Illegal tax collection has been reported. Cases of fraud and minerals smuggling and the development of the mafia networks have increased. At the international level, ores from Eastern DRC have beard several aliases in order to discourage buyers; who feared their reputation which is subject to the monitoring
1. Brief introductory overview During the year 2014-15, the coalition of civil society in the African Great Lakes region against the illegal exploitation of natural resources, COSOC-GL, in acronym has carried out two types of activities. It is a part of political and administrative activities related to the process of its institutionalization as a regional organization and on the other hand, technical activities which relate to its vision and objectives in relation with advocacy, lobbying and the stake holders’ capacities building. These have served to support efforts in the region, in the DRC and in particularly in the province of South Kivu to establish accountable conflict free 3TG supply chain and thus in compliance with the regional mechanism for Certification, MRC set by the International Conference on the Great Lakes region. The whole of these activities has received technical and financial support from the German Technical Cooperation, essentially GIZ and BGR within the framework of the local subsidy for the benefit of the coalition including the establishment of a web site and the appointment of an international consultant for this matter. This report presents the summary of above-mentioned activities for the purposes archiving the achievements and major challenges as well as identifying the perspectives and shares them with the whole of member organizations and partners. 2. Global Context The initiatives developed by COSOC-GL are inspired by contextualized events in the 2010s including the rush of military, political and administrative authorities and many armed groups operational in eastern of Congo toward illegal mining. The mining sites had become real armed groups sanctuaries involved illegally in extractive activities which became the main sources of financing their guerrillas. The phenomenon "armed groups" for example has taken a significant sweep in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Their activism has resulted in reverse impacts at all levels thus affecting dangerously the life of local communities. Serious violations of human rights have been reported. Illegal tax collection has been reported. Cases of fraud and minerals smuggling and the development of the mafia networks have increased. At the international level, ores from Eastern DRC have beard several aliases in order to discourage buyers; who feared their reputation which is subject to the monitoring
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