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
up the process of signing the MOU as well as with other partners for the mobilization of resources. The OECD Kinshasa meeting presents another opportunity to further discuss closely with Executive Secretary this issue. Understanding between ICGLR and COSOC-GL has been signed in Goma on 24 January 2016. 06 The Steering Committee of COSOC-GL is composed of 4 national delegates per country. They are national focal points or not. This change will need to be integrated into the amended Guiding Principles or in the Rules of Procedure; This provision has been integrated into the draft Rules of Procedure of the Coalition; the Guiding Principles has been formalized. 07 The General Assembly, drawing lessons from experiences has resolved that from now only mandated effective members of national platforms are eligible to be member of the Coalition Steering Committee - and not only the National Points often disinterested in the activities of the Coalition. Take this into account at the General Assembly especially concerning the renewal of the mandates of the steering committee members. 08 Integrate the Policy on of interpersonal, structural and interests conflicts management into the rules of procedure to be developed; This was integrated into the Rules of Procedure of the Coalition 09 Conclude the issue of the OAG in collaboration with the National Platform of Burundi; A letter signed by the Executive Secretary and the National Focal Point of Burundi has been addressed to the person in charge of OAG. (Ref. of 04 January 2016) 10 The Executive Secretary updates the list of members of COSOC-GL on the basis of new membership A list of members of COSOC-GL has been updated and made available to members and partners, 23 effective member NGOs. Their records were requested as well as their postcards for postage in the web site. 11 The national platform of the DRC designates a member organization to complete the Commission of Control including OLUCOME of Burundi and MPEDH of Rwanda The National Platform of the Democratic Republic of Congo has convened a meeting at which Mr. Raoul Kitungano has been