HATUA gives any cooperative or artisanal mining operator the means to structure its operations: self-assessment against international standards, production reporting, proof of due diligence. The resulting record can be presented to banks, buyers and programmes.
Any cooperative, any operator can use HATUA. Access does not depend on a client, a bank or a programme.
HATUA belongs to no single organisation. It is infrastructure maintained as a commons, developed with the support of the European Partnership for Responsible Minerals.
Any organisation can contribute to its expansion: new modules, new standards, new territories.
02 · What it does
Elsewhere, the operator answers someone else's system. Inside HATUA, the operator is the main actor.
Structured KYC and management-systems forms. Completion and score computed on your own data: know where you stand before anyone asks.
Production and shipments logged as they happen. Declared volumes can be checked against capacity: plausible, not just claimed.
Risks, incidents and corrective actions as a running record, not a yearly audit.
Filled in once and kept ready: the same record every bank, buyer or programme asks for. Shared only by the operator's choice: sovereignty, down to the record.
03 · Data vault
Information ASM operators store and use at their discretion.
The organisation: identity, legal status, contacts, history.
Supply chain policy, internal management, supplier engagement, grievance mechanism.
Trade partners up and down the chain, and what is known about them.
Sites and titles: location, legal status, conditions on the ground.
Each consignment, from site to buyer: weight, grade, route, paperwork.
Output period by period, in a format comparable over time.
What happened, how it was handled, who testified.
Titles, statutes, certificates, receipts: attached across the vault.
The vault grows with the sector: new data subjects as standards and needs evolve.
04 · Hatua kwa hatua
Map the operation and its supply chain.
Evaluate practices against the standard, evidence attached.
Plan corrective actions where gaps appear, and track them.
Account for what was found and what was done about it.
"Hatua" means "step" in Swahili. Each step is taken by the operator's own team: the record grows, and local capacity grows with it.
05 · Ecosystem
HATUA is the operator interface of a distributed due diligence ecosystem: each actor keeps custody of its own data.
HATUA interoperates with the rest of the ecosystem: a profile kept here can feed a bank's onboarding in KOTA directly, with the operator's consent.
06 · Contribute
HATUA is under development. If your organisation wants to use it, fund it or extend it, talk to us.