Toolkits & Guidance

Water and Conflict

2014 | USAID

Competition over natural resources, including water, is often viewed as a driver of conflict and has emerged as a key component in many current and past…

Extractive Industries, Revenue Allocation and Local Politics

2014 | Javier Arellano-Yanguas and Andrés Mejía-Acosta

The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state…

Forest Defender

2014 | Center for International Environmental Law

ForestDefender is a legal database that provides a snapshot of international human rights and obligations relevant to forest governance. It captures the large amount of information…

Conflict Minerals: Stakeholder Options for Responsible Sourcing are Expanding, but More Information on Smelters is Needed

2014 | United States Government Accountability Office

Since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) was passed in 2010, relevant U.S. agencies have undertaken various activities related to…

Conflict Minerals Reporting: 12 Lessons Learned with Best Practices Worksheet for 2014

2014 | Green Status Pro

See the issues other companies faced when filing their first Conflict Mineral Reports.

 

After reading this book you will learn:

Preparing for your 2015 AuditDeveloping Supply Chain…

From Fragility to Resilience: Managing Natural Resources in Fragile States in Africa (Summary Report)

2014 | African Development Bank Group
Ilona Coyle & Carl Bruch

Natural resources have the potential to catalyze transformative change in Africa. In the African Development Bank’s Ten Year Strategy (2013-2022), the Bank envisions the next…

The IISD Guide to Negotiating Investment Contracts for Farmland and Water

2014 | International Institute for International Development
Carin Smaller

“The IISD Guide to Negotiating Investment Contracts for Farmland and Water is a legal and policy tool for governments and communities that are involved in…

Topic Guide: Conflict, Climate and Environment

2014 | Evidence on Demand
Katie Peters and Janani Vivekananda

This Topic Guide will support Department for International Development (DFID) advisers in the Conflict, Security and Justice Cadres as well as the Humanitarian, Climate and…

The Rise of Hydro-Diplomacy

2014 | Adelphi
Benjamin Pohl, Alexander Carius, Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Annika Kramer, David Michel, Susanne Schmeier, Ashok Swain, and Aaron Wolf

What contribution can diplomats and technical experts make to support transboundary water cooperation? And how can such cooperation be leveraged to facilitate wider-ranging regional integration?…

Confronting the Curse: The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance

2014 | Peterson Institute for International Economics
Cullen S. Hendrix and Marcus Noland

Countries blessed with abundant natural resources often seek financial and political power from their supposedly lucky status. But the potentially negative impact of natural resources…

Benchmarks for Land Governance in Africa

2014 | International Land Coalition Africa
Tim Bending

As we plunge into land reforms on the African continent with diverse interests and players raising varied propositions, the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy…

Natural Resource Management in Transitional Settings

2013 | UN Development Group

Conflict stems from and is fuelled by a variety of factors. Among these, natural resource related issues figure prominently. Since 1990, at least 17 violent…

Extractive Industry Source Book

2013 | World Bank Institute

Knowledge of the oil, gas and mining industries has become a subject of acute controversy as it has become clear that their activities can bring…

Livelihoods and Economic Recovery in Crisis Situations

2013 | UNDP

Disasters and violent conflicts continue to claim lives and destroy livelihoods of far too many people around the world and undermine development achievements. This can…

Foreign Investment, Law and Sustainable Development: A Handbook on Agriculture and Extractive Industries

2013 | Lorenzo Cotula (IIED)

This handbook is about how to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable development. It aims to provide a rigorous yet accessible analysis…

Targeted Scenario Analysis: A New Approach to Capturing and Presenting Ecosystem Service Values for Decision Makers

2013 | United Nations Development Program

This guidebook provides a step-by-step introduction to Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA), an innovative analytical approach, developed by UNDP that captures and presents the value of…

Guidance Note: Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation

2013 | UNDP

Focussing on urgent post-crisis assistance, this guidance note provides practical advice to UNDP Country Offices on how to plan, design and implement a short-term project…

Reverse the Curse: Maximizing the Potential of Resource-driven Economies

2013 | Richard Dobbs, Jeremy Oppenheim, Adam Kendall, Fraser Thompson, Martin Bratt, and Fransje van der Marel (McKinsey Global Institute)

Rising resource prices and expanded production have raised the number of countries where the resource sector represents a major share of the economy, from 58…

Creating Jobs in Africa’s Fragile States

2013 | Nora Dudwick and Radhika Srinivasan, with Jose Cuesta and Dorsati Madani, The World Bank

In no part of the world does the need to generate employment combine more urgently with the need for stability than in Sub-Saharan Africa, home…

Community Based Problem Solving on Water Issues: Cross- Border “Priority Initiatives” of the Good Water Neighbors Project

2013 | EcoPeace and Friends of the Earth Middle East

This publication describes the 2013 efforts of the Good Water Neighbors project team to identify environmental challenges and provide feasible solutions for "Priority Initiatives" in…

Disclosing Government Payments

2013 | Ernst & Young

It is estimated that more than 3.5 billion people live in countries with extensive oil, natural gas and mineral resources. With good governance that fosters…

Integrated Trans - boundary Regional NGO Master Plan for the Lower Jordan River Basin

2013 | Royal Haskoning DHV, CORE Associates Palestine, MASAR Jordan, and DHVMED Israel

WEDO / Friend of the Earth Middle East assigned Royal HaskoningDHV / DHV B.V. on the 27th of August  2012 to undertake the Integrated Trans-boundary…

Conflict Financing: What’s Wrong with War Economies?

2013 | Mark B. Taylor (NOREF)

This report describes an approach to engaging in war economies in which informal economies meet irregular armed violence. International responses to the economic dimensions of…

Conflict Trade: Regulating Illicit Flows to and from War

2013 | Mark B. Taylor (NOREF)

This expert analysis note describes an emerging approach to regulating illicit flows of goods to and from conflict zones. The approach, based on norms of…

The Earth Security Index 2014

2013 | Earth Security Initiative

Our world is in the midst of a major geopolitical shift. New emerging powers are becoming important actors in a multi-polar international system, many of which are facing resource…

Conflict Minerals – An Evaluation of the Dodd-Frank Act and other Resource-related Measures

2013 | Institute for Applied Ecology

The analysis of the Dodd-Frank Act and further resource-related measures showed that the
root causes for conflicts in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic…

Conservation in a Wicked Complex World: Challenges and Solutions

2013 | Edward T. Game, Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil, and Eve McDonald-Madden

Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called “wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists possess a legacy…

Do No Harm in Land Tenure and Property Rights

2013 | Nicole Goddard and Maureen Lempke (CDA)

In situations of scarcity and unequal access, the chances for conflict and violence increase significantly. Moreover, experience has shown that even the most localized conflicts…

The Shadow Economy in Conflict-Affected Countries

2013 | Brigitte Rohwerder

Targeting the shadow economy in conflict-affected contexts is a complex task about which little is known (expert comment). This rapid literature review uncovered little focusing on…

Free Flow: Reaching Water Security Through Cooperation

2013 | UNESCO
Jacqui Griffiths & Rebecca Lambert

Conceived on the occasion of the International Year of Water Cooperation, coordinated by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, this joint publication by UNESCO and Tudor…