Promoting legal mineral trade in Africa: new policy approaches (March 2011)

This presentation was given by Marie Lintzer during an international policy conference ‘Competitiveness and Diversification: Strategic Challenges in a Petroleum-Rich Country’ organised by the Ghana Ministry of Trade and Industry and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation held in Accra on 14-15 March 2011.

Tags: Natural Resources  Assurance and Certification  Trade  Economic Governance  

The illegal Trade in Natural Resources from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (September 2010)

This presentation was given by Harrison Mitchell during a conference organised by the Institute for Environmental Security in Brussels in the context of a discussion about illegality and the limitations to current approaches in dealing with varying forms of illegality in the mineral trade from EDRC.

Tags: Natural Resources  Minerals Trade  Conflict  

Current initiatives under development in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining sector (July 2010)

This presentation was given by Simon Gilbert during the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Africa’s Great Lakes Region on the 1st of July 2010.

Tags: Natural Resources  Conflict  Opportunities  Economic Governance  

Beyond Conflict: Reconfiguring Supply Chain Approaches for Gold and Diamonds (May 2010)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett during a conference organised by the Responsible Jewelry Council in London in the context of a discussion of chain of custody approaches in the global gold trading chain. It focuses on the gold trading chain originating from Eastern DRC.

Tags: Supply Chain Risk  Natural Resources  Minerals Trade  

Non-Fisal Linkages Development in Katanga's Mining Sector (DRC) (March 2010)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett during a seminar organised by the Making the Most of Commodities at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town. It discusses the potential for economic linkages to emerge in Katanga, DRC.

Tags: Economic Governance  Opportunities  Natural Resources  

The Trade in Minerals in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (June 2009)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett during a seminar in Ispra organised by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It discusses preliminary findings of an investigation into the trade in minerals in Africa's Great Lakes Region.

Tags: Natural Resources  Minerals Trade  Economic Governance  

The regional trade in minerals from Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (March 2009)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett during a conference in Lusaka organised by the Trading for Peace project supported by DFID, COMESA and USAID. It discusses preliminary findings on utilising economic activity in Eastern DRC to support peacebuilding and development.

Tags: Minerals Trade  Natural Resources  Economic Governance  

Regulating Reality: reconfiguring approaches to the regulation of artisanally mined diamonds (September 2008)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett and Harrison Mitchell during a conference in Pretoria organised by the Royal Egmont Institute for International Relations. It discusses approaches to the regulation of trade in artisanally mined diamonds in the context of Sierra Leone and DRC.

Tags: Artisanal Mining  Trade  Natural Resources  

Iss_Egmont Management of Mineral Resources in the Dr Congo (August 2008)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett during a conference in Pretoria organised by the Institute for Security Studies and the Royal Egmont Institute for International Relations. It discusses natural resource management approaches in the context of Eastern DRC.

Tags: Natural Resources  Conflict  Political Economy  

The right interventions? Donors in the DR Congo’s Mining Sector (October 2008)

This presentation was given by Nicholas Garrett during a seminar in Barcelona organised by the Environmental Law Institute, UNEP and the University of Tokyo, The World Conservation Union and the Commission on Environmental Law. It discusses preliminary findings on donor approaches to the natural resources management in the context of DRC.

Tags: Assurance and Certification  Natural Resources  Corruption  

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