International Network for Economics and Conflict

This is the final report of the Special Representative. It summarizes his work from 2005 to 2011, and presents the “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” for consideration by the Human Rights Council.

This document reviews 2010 highlights of U.S. conflict and stabilization operations centered around the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. The Office addresses the need for collaborative, government-wide foreign policy tools to address the diverse stabilization needs of the global community

This briefing book contains a wealth of information and policy recommendations on a range of pressing foreign assistance challenges. It represents a collaboration involving hundreds of InterAction member organizations working through and with InterAction staff, and in partnership with one another.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) holds vast resources of minerals, and many of the mines are controlled by parties that have perpetrated severe human rights abuses in the region. The recently enacted Section 1502 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act aims to enhance transparency in the minerals supply chain. A realistic economic impact estimate of this legislation is important as the careful consideration of the most salient cost drivers informs the precise formulation of rules, which in turn enables implementation.

This short guide is designed to help project site operators in companies in the extractive industries to create a policy and strategy for local procurement.

This paper reviews the design of partial credit guarantee schemes in MENA, and assesses their preliminary outcomes.

This report develops a range of strategic, policy and institutional recommendations on how to use technical capability to break hostile enemies and learn to help weaker nations become stable, willing partners before they give rise to threats.

The Report showcases the UNDP-Global Environment Facility adaptation portfolio, focusing on both the principles underlying the UNDP-GEF approach to adaptation programming and the key processes involved in removing barriers to successful adaptation measures.

This report from Standard Bank maps out the state of elections in Africa in an outlook for 2011 and 2012.

Africa’s ICT Infrastructure reviews how the investment in the sector has been financed and how the structure of the market has changed since the liberalization process started.