Conflict minerals: actions needed to assess progress addressing armed groups' exploitation of minerals : report to congressional committees / United States Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of State--Management--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Agency for International Development--Management--Evaluation.

United States. Agency for International Development.

United States. Department of State.

Mineral industries--Corrupt practices--Democratic Republic of the Congo--Prevention.

Mineral industries.

Strategic materials--Government policy--United States.

Strategic materials.

Conflict management.

Paramilitary forces--Finance--Prevention.

Paramilitary forces.

Management--Evaluation.

Strategic materials--Government policy.

Congo (Democratic Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 63 pages) : color illustrations, color maps, color photographs

Other Title:

GAO-20-595 Conflict minerals

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Armed groups in eastern DRC continue to commit severe human rights abuses and to profit from the exploitation of "conflict minerals," according to State. Provisions in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required, among other things, that State, USAID, and the SEC take certain actions to promote peace and security. In 2011, State created the U.S. conflict minerals strategy in consultation with USAID to address armed groups' exploitation of conflict minerals. In 2012, the SEC also promulgated regulations containing disclosure and reporting requirements for companies that use conflict minerals from covered countries. In this report, GAO examines, among other things, how companies responded to the SEC conflict minerals disclosure rule when filing in 2019 and the extent to which State and USAID assessed progress toward the U.S. conflict minerals strategy's objectives and goal. State, in consultation with USAID, should develop performance indicators for assessing progress toward the strategic objectives and goal of the U.S. conflict minerals strategy

Contents:

Background

Companies made similar preliminary determinations of conflict minerals; origin after RCOI as in past years, but fewer made final determinations after due diligence

State and USAID implement the U.S. conflict minerals strategy through various activities, but lack performance indicators to comprehensively assess progress

No new comprehensive surveys have been published on the rate of sexual violence in Eastern DRC and adjoining countries, but some new information is available

Conclusions

Recommendation for executive action

Agency comments

Appendices.

Notes:

"September 2020."

"GAO-20-595."

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed September 15, 2020).

OCLC:

1195815112