The Center for African Minerals Value Chains (CAMVaC) is a continental research and strategy platform focused on producer-centred governance, critical minerals policy, and industrial upgrading across Africa. It works with governments, regional organisations, research institutions, think tanks, and strategic partners to help African producer countries turn mineral resources into lasting industrial capability. CAMVaC connects research with policy innovation and practical strategy, placing national development priorities and African agency at the heart of its work.

Its services include aligning mineral strategies with regional frameworks, developing value-addition and beneficiation approaches, analysing mineral value chains, and advising on institutional design for industrial upgrading. CAMVaC also supports sovereign data transparency and comparative policy learning. Its flagship Linkage-Based Criticality Matrix (LBCM) assesses minerals through seven developmental linkage dimensions, institutional readiness, and alignment with national and regional priorities, rather than supply risk alone. The organisation produces working papers, policy briefs, and strategic diagnostics, and offers frameworks designed for transparent, sovereign use. Its current areas of emphasis include manganese, battery-related value chains, and energy-transition minerals.