Annual reports
CARF 2025 Activity Report
The year 2025 was a year of consolidation, expansion and strengthening of the Arrupe Centre for Research and Training, affirming its commitment to the mission of human development and social justice in the DRC. Thanks to a wide range of applied research activities, transformative training, community support, bold advocacy and infrastructure modernization – CARF has consolidated its position as a unique place for reflection, action and hope.
Report on activities 2023
This Annual Report 2023 presents the beginnings of our human efforts,
Jesuits and collaborators, to answer these calls of the Spirit. The many
activities undertaken during this year 2023 – in the form of conferences on
governance of natural resources, spiritual and social support,
• workshops on gender training, intellectual training,
seminars and workshops on mining and agricultural cooperatives
help men and women to emancipate in and out of the mining industry, echo our Jesuit way of serving the Christian faith by working on the
promotion of justice. Indeed, our faith in God is always a service to the
and for the environment which are sacraments of God.
CARF 2022 Activity Report
The three-year strategic action plan 2021-2025 is to strengthen the functioning of the digital mechanism for alerting and promoting human rights; to encourage stakeholders (the state, industries and mining cooperatives) to comply with mining legislation at Luisha, Fungurume and Kolwezi sites by 2025.
Presentation of CARF
Located in the town of Lubumbashi, 128 Kilela-Balanda Avenue, the Arrupe Centre for Research and Training (CARF) is an Association Without Lucrative Purpose (ASBL). An apostolic work unique to the Central African Province of the Society of Jesus.
Founded in 2013, its creation was motivated by the long experience of economic studies, sociocultural and political research, as well as the publications of the Social Action Research Centre (CEPAS) in Kinshasa.
From its inception, CARF has focused on the economic development of Katanga, one of the richest provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, promoting good governance of natural resources, particularly mineral resources through its research activities, training, conferences, seminars and publications.
History
On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Jesuit presence in Lubumbashi, the Central African Province of the Society of Jesus decided in 2009 to build a social work of its own in the mining capital of Katanga. After three years of construction, the Centre Arrupe pour la Recherche et la Formation, CARF en symbole, was officially created in December 2013.
