What if local taxation helped electrify mining regions?
Congo’s decentralized territorial entities collect significant tax revenues. Resource Matters and its partners are working to ensure that these revenues contribute to providing access to electricity to mining communities.
Our data to support the mining-energy nexus
Resource Matters collects data both on local taxation and electrification solutions.
Congo Epela
Explore the best available data on electricity demand, energy sources and the best electrification solutions.
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Makuta ya Maendeleo
Explore local tax revenue for each decentralized entity on the platform of the Makuta Ya Maendeleo consortium.
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Our publications on the mining-energy nexus
Report
Budana’s last turbine: A sword of damocles over Ituri’s electrification
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Report
Modeling mini-grids for communities in mining regions
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Record
Minutes : Mining-Energy Nexus Workshop 2024
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Plateform
Makuta: Mining revenues for local development
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Podcast
Podcast – Qui perd, qui gagne ? Ep. 9: “Energy deficit and its consequences”
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Video