The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) are hosting a conference on recently implemented EU Conflict Minerals Regulation.
Join breakout session 1 on 14 January with NRGI's Erica Westenberg to hear how due diligence and producer country efforts for good extractive governance are interconnected, whether they support or undermine each other, how technological innovations such as blockchain can be utilised, and more.
Panelists:
Alec Crawford, senior policy advisor and lead on environment, conflict and peacebuilding, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, IGF (moderating)
Lisa Zschunke, advisor, mineral resource governance, GIZ, ICGLR/Rwanda
Lynn Gitu, project leader, Impact Uganda
Gerard Nayuburundi, coordinator of the Natural Resources Unit, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)
Erica Westenberg, director of governance programs, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)
