Mining windfall and state authorities in South Kivu in the DRC

ISBN-13: 9786204141596 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str.

Claude IGUMA; Raoul Kitungano

Opis

This paper examines the involvement of provincial state authorities in mining reforms in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Specifically, the study analyses how these authorities are strengthened or weakened by these reforms, how they have accommodated them, and how they attempt to capture the resources that these reforms generate, referred to here as the 'mining windfall'. Drawing on the literature on the politics, sociology and anthropology of development, and putting into perspective the functioning of the provincial state committee for the monitoring of mining activities (CPS) which collects and manages this windfall, this article shows that the creation, development and functioning of the CPS have produced two inextricably linked dynamics. On the one hand, although absent from the Congolese mining code and despite the fact that the CPS charts a new development trajectory for artisanal mining sites, this institution has become a den of conflict between mining operators, civil society and state authorities.

O autorze

IGUMA, ClaudeClaude IGUMA WAKENGE holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Wageningen and has been teaching for the past ten years at ISDR/Bukavu.)Raoul KITUNGANO MULONDANI is an Environmentalist by training with a passion for working on the protection of the rights of local communities impacted by extractive activities.