This new report assesses efforts within the private and non‐profit sectors to help ensure minerals from Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) benefit the population rather than fund armed groups; it furthers the policy debate on how to promote legal mineral trade in Eastern DRC (EDRC) through professionalisation, formalisation and increased transparency…The authors suggest policies aimed to increase the implementability and effectiveness of existing and proposed efforts to better understand the origin of minerals, reduce corruption and increase the fiscal benefit to the DRC.