Elevanta Global Ltd | Governance · Gender · Health · Human Rights

The Elevanta Position

Extractive companies do not have a CSR problem. They have a structural harm problem — and unaddressed structural harm is a quantifiable, material business risk. Every dollar of human security harm left unaddressed becomes a dollar of operational exposure, regulatory liability, investor pressure, and social licence erosion.

Elevanta Global Ltd converts that risk into measurable value. Before the crisis. At board level. With verified outcomes on the ground.

Pierrette KengelaFounder, Elevanta Global Ltd · Governance · Gender · Health · Human Rights · Member, Chatham House

The Business Cost of Inaction

Three cases. Three continents. One pattern.

The human security failures that destroyed business value at these operations were visible years before the crisis. The framework to act was simply not there.

TotalEnergies

Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

Inadequate community consultation, displacement without protection, failure to assess insurgency risk driven by resource grievance and structural inequality. Communities raised alarms for years. The operational response was absent.

$20 billion LNG project frozen. Reputational crisis across entire Africa portfolio. Partner companies — ENI, ExxonMobil — all exposed simultaneously.

Barrick Gold

North Mara, Tanzania

Security force violence against artisanal miners and community members over multiple years. Documented killings, sexual violence, and beatings by mine security personnel — a predictable outcome of unaddressed community-site tension and absence of human security governance.

International legal action. Multi-million dollar settlements. Enhanced due diligence designation by multiple European institutional investors.

Glencore

Katanga, DRC

Child labour in artisanal cobalt mining adjacent to industrial operations. Community health crisis including elevated heavy metal contamination in children near smelting sites — a direct consequence of no community health monitoring or protection infrastructure.

ESG downgrades. Supply chain litigation from downstream tech manufacturers. Sustained divestment pressure from Church of England pension fund and major European investors.

In every case, the human security failure preceded the business crisis by years. The communities were raising alarms. The patterns were documented. What was absent was a board-level framework capable of seeing that evidence — and acting.

Field Intelligence

GBV · MiningWomen near ASM sites are 3× more likely to experience sexual violence where armed actors control mine access — Rustad, Østby & Nordås (2016)

Governance · EUEU CSDDD enters phased enforcement in 2026 — binding human rights due diligence across global supply chains

Health200,000+ women estimated to have experienced rape in conflict zones linked to mineral extraction — WILPF US (2025)

ESG · RiskCommunity opposition is the primary cause of cost overrun in 39% of extractive projects globally — PwC Mining Survey

Human RightsUNGPs establish corporate human rights responsibility independently of state action — UNHRC (2011)

Women · ASM45 million people work in artisanal and small-scale mining globally; women constitute a significant share in conflict-affected contexts

Fragile States334 violent incidents across 19 extractive-active countries 2021–2023 — avg 111/year — Global Witness (2024)

Gender · SafetyA firearm in the home increases the likelihood of a woman being killed fivefold in domestic violence — WILPF (2015)

Social Licence$20M per week NPV loss documented for every week of community-driven production delay — University of Queensland CSRM