📋 Tender Overview
Activity Id:
181068
Project Number:
72066018CA00004
Implementing Partner:
Global Communities
Activity Start Date:
N/A
Activity End Date:
2023-12-16
Country:
Congo (Kinshasa)
Country Code:
COD
Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Funding Agency:
U.S. Agency for International Development
Managing Agency:
U.S. Agency for International Development
Fiscal Year:
2022
Current Dollar Amount:
$1,619,799
International Sector:
Government and Civil Society
USG Sector:
Rule of Law and Human Rights
Description:
Zahabu Safi (The Commercially Viable Conflict-Free Gold Project CVCFG) is an economic development initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The goal of the project is to establish a conflict-free artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) gold supply chain originating from eastern DRC. The five-year program builds on recent successes achieved by donor-funded initiatives to export responsibly-produced gold to jewelry buyers in North America and Europe. This project contributes to the broader US government goal of reducing instability in the DRC which has more than 1,100 minerals worth nearly $24 trillion by providing commercial opportunities to artisanal miners by linking them to responsible gold buyers in international markets, or by strengthening local partnerships between artisanal mining cooperatives and established institutional investors/anchor institutions within the DRC
