Validated case types
Environmental
Community and land
Human rights / security
Workers / safety
A plain-language guide to how AMAP organises community evidence, compares mining impacts and supports public accountability.
It affects people, water, land, biodiversity, workers, local economies and governments. AMAP uses recognised sustainability standards as a common language so reports from different communities and countries can be understood and compared consistently.
ESG is a simple way of grouping the main effects of business activity.
How mining affects the natural environment.
How mining affects people and communities.
How companies and institutions make decisions and account for them.
Most AMAP cases touch more than one ESG area.
GRI develops international sustainability reporting standards. Many mining companies use them when preparing sustainability reports.
AMAP does not audit companies against GRI. We use the standards to classify community evidence, compare similar impacts and connect local reports to recognised accountability themes.
The list reflects the standards used in the AMAP Master Mine & Incident Profile Manual.
A single incident may affect water, waste, workers and communities at the same time.
AMAP uses GRI and GRI 14 as reference frameworks to organise and explain reported mining-related impacts. AMAP does not certify company compliance, replace formal sustainability reporting, substitute for regulators or make legal determinations.
AMAP protects affected people, community monitors and the integrity of the evidence process. Public visibility is governed by validation, informed consent, necessity, proportionality and do-no-harm.
Submissions, records under review, duplicates and validated cases are not the same. Public case publication is restricted to records that meet SARW's verification and publication threshold.
The public dashboard may show case status, qualified summaries and accountability positions. Personal information, sensitive testimony, unpublished evidence files, verification notes and legal-risk material remain in protected systems.
Every public record must clearly distinguish reported allegations, corroborated information, validated cases and confirmed findings.
Personal names, identity documents, health information, contact details and sensitive source records are excluded from the public layer.
Monitor and source identities are protected where publication could expose them to retaliation, intimidation, surveillance or legal harassment.
No public-interest value justifies unnecessary risk to a reporter, witness, child, family or mining-affected community.
Spatial intelligence for critical minerals governance — mapping mines, infrastructure and corridors, linking community evidence to structural analysis. This page is the public gateway from AMAP into SARW's current pilot African Critical Minerals Atlas.
The African Critical Minerals Atlas (ACMA) is SARW’s spatial-intelligence platform for understanding where critical-mineral projects are located, how minerals connect to infrastructure and corridors, and where value-chain and development decisions are made. AMAP adds the community evidence and public-accountability layer, connecting those places and companies to reported impacts, verification, institutional engagement and remedy.
These countries reflect the current pilot scope shown in SARW's own ACMA material. They are not presented as complete continental coverage.
The layers allow users to move beyond mine locations and examine the infrastructure and corridor systems that shape extraction and development.
Industrial mine and global battery-material pathway
Use the Atlas to follow cobalt and copper through traders, refiners, battery manufacturers and international end users. AMAP links this geography to validated public accountability records where available.
Large-scale copper value chain
The pathway connects First Quantum's operation to copper traders, smelters and downstream industrial users. AMAP provides a complementary community-rights and accountability lens.
Lithium extraction and battery supply chain
The Atlas follows lithium from extraction through Sinomine-linked refining and battery-material manufacturing. AMAP can surface verified worker, environmental and community cases connected to the same operating landscape.
Natural graphite and anode-material chain
The pathway highlights how graphite moves into downstream anode and battery markets, and whether African processing and industrial benefits are being retained.
Manganese mining and steel value chain
The Atlas maps a major African manganese operation through Eramet-linked processing and global steel markets while supporting analysis of local value addition.
PGM offtake, refining and future-energy uses
The pathway links the operation to refining, automotive catalyst markets and emerging hydrogen applications, with AMAP providing a community-accountability connection where evidence is validated.
Manganese poisoning affecting 299 workers at SAFAL in Serenje. This spotlight connects a validated AMAP accountability case to the wider critical-minerals governance discussion.
Tailings failure and approximately 50 million litres of acidic effluent affecting the Kafue system. The spotlight connects environmental harm, infrastructure and accountability.
Mineral geography, selected mines, geology, ownership, downstream actors, supply-chain routes and industrialisation context.
Mine and company identifiers, country intelligence, GRI themes, development outcomes and links to verified public evidence.
Community submissions, evidence verification, validated cases, institutional engagement, responses, commitments and remedy monitoring.
www.sarwatch.org as its general CTA, while the Pamoja QR resolves to sarwatch.co.za. Confirm the preferred institutional domain before final publication.A country-level view of community-reported mining harms, programme coverage, evidence maturity and documented accountability pathways. Country intelligence identifies patterns in AMAP records; it does not treat every submission as an established finding.
The Africa Mining Accountability Platform is SARW's institutionally owned infrastructure for documenting, verifying and responding to environmental, social, labour and governance impacts associated with mining. The public dashboard is one layer of a wider system connecting local reporting, evidence review, institutional engagement, country intelligence and continental action.
Training communities once is not enough. Effective reporting depends on trusted local focal points who remain present, help people use the platform and support safe evidence generation.
Support regular, locally grounded reporting of environmental, social, labour and governance impacts as risks emerge.
Help community members understand the platform, submit reports and overcome technical, language or connectivity barriers.
Produce information capable of verification, grievance follow-up, engagement with duty bearers, advocacy and policy dialogue.
The network reflects priority accountability landscapes where SARW has community relationships, programme partners and urgent mining-related evidence needs. It is not a ranking of mining harm across Africa.
Community-benefit, displacement, Social and Labour Plan, procurement and rehabilitation accountability in established mining regions.
High-severity tailings, occupational-health, relocation, illegal-mining and enforcement concerns across major mining areas.
Worker fatalities, abandoned pits, pollution, FPIC, land rights and rapidly expanding lithium and mineral operations.
Severe and safeguarding-sensitive security, pollution, blasting and housing risks in copper and cobalt landscapes.
Graphite, ruby, gas, gold and heavy-mineral-sands monitoring across Cabo Delgado, Manica and Nampula.
The monitor programme is designed as continuing accountability infrastructure—not a series of isolated workshops.
Country training combines accountability principles, practical reporting skills, evidence discipline and safe platform use.
A submitted report does not disappear into an application. It enters a controlled evidence and accountability process.
Raw report numbers alone do not show whether the platform is producing usable accountability evidence.
Its primary measure is whether reports contain sufficient, safe and verifiable evidence to support public accountability. A repeated allegation is not independent corroboration, and a response is not the same as remedy.
Evidence must never be collected at the expense of a monitor, source or affected community member.
Community reporting is shaped by unequal access to devices, connectivity, transport, language, time and safe access to mining sites.
Publicly documented milestones anchor the monitor network in real training, reporting and community-accountability practice.
The Sekhukhune training introduced community and civil-society participants to grievance redress, structured incident reporting, evidence uploads, offline access, power mapping and escalation.
Read the training story ↗
Six community reporters were trained and onboarded in Pemba. Each completed a live reporting exercise, and the cohort moved into coached field reporting, evidence verification and community engagement.
Open Mozambique intelligence ↓Explore programme coverage, public dataset position, evidence maturity and accountability priorities. Use the lenses to filter the country cards and thematic profiles.
Colours identify analytical themes—not good or bad performance. Profiles are relative within each country's reviewed material and must not be used to compare prevalence between countries.
A coordinated network allows AMAP to identify recurring patterns across companies, commodities and countries rather than leaving each report isolated.
SARW's platforms form one connected accountability ecosystem rather than isolated initiatives.
Shows the verified public accountability position of each validated case—from evidence consolidation and validation through institutional engagement, response, corrective action and ongoing monitoring. The tracker distinguishes an incomplete public record from an absence of action.
Open a case to review its notification stage, elapsed time, institutions contacted, response quality and next escalation steps.
All 24 submissions contained in the July 2026 build, mapped by their recorded coordinates. Register status is not the same as public validation.
Canonical, de-duplicated cases reviewed by SARW. Select a card to return to the map and open the full public dossier.