Emmanuel Umpula Nkumba
Executive Director African Natural Resources Watch
Maître UMPULA NKUMBA Emmanuel is founder and executive director of AFREWATCH. With over 23 years' experience in the extractive sector in the DRC and Africa, he has worked for and sits on the Board of Directors of several national and international organizations. From 2012 to 2018, he was one of the Congolese civil society players who actively participated in the revision of the Congolese mining code and regulations.
His current work focuses on natural resource governance, legal and judicial support for local communities, corporate social responsibility, the formalization of artisanal mining, human rights and community development.
2025 Agenda Sessions
Disruption required - time for a new deal with local communities?
- Jobs and economic opportunity have always come with mining, but are those enough to earn the support of local communities?
- How can the inevitable local disruption and impacts of mining be best managed?
- When disagreements arise, how can those best be resolved for the common good?
Tuesday 04 February 12:00 - 12:45 CTICC1
Disruptive Discussions
- Jobs and economic opportunity have always come with mining, but are those enough to earn the support of local communities?
- How can the inevitable local disruption and impacts of mining be best managed?
- When disagreements arise, how can those best be resolved for the common good?
Is achieving the social license to operate enough to future proof African mining?
- Are community development efforts as impactful as they could be?
- How do we go deeper than social license?
- Is social license to operate the biggest risk to critical minerals mining?
- How do you close the gap between what the mineral will be used for and the impact on the ground?
Tuesday 04 February 14:00 - 15:00 CTICC1
Sustainability Series
- Are community development efforts as impactful as they could be?
- How do we go deeper than social license?
- Is social license to operate the biggest risk to critical minerals mining?
- How do you close the gap between what the mineral will be used for and the impact on the ground?
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