Resources

A project funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF) in which UNIDO has been funded to formulate a global action plan for countries affecting international waters with mercury from artisanal mining. A summary article of UNIDO's experience and what UNIDO hopes to achieve.

This report explores areas of convergence between private sector corporate social responsibility (CSR) and related corporate citizenship sustainability initiatives and community-driven development (CDD), with a view to identifying opportunities to leverage corporate investment for the benefit of CDD programs.

Extractive industries (oil, gas and mining) have generated enormous revenues for a number of countries. Revenue payments, when effectively spent, have the potential to bring about dramatic improvements in citizens’ lives. When spent on public investments in health and education services, they can help lift poor children out of poverty. This report aims to put the focus back on the direct action that companies can take to support improved transparency of revenue flows in the extractive industries

BSR and First Peoples Worldwide (FPW) partnered recently to present a lively, practically focused training on how companies operating in areas inhabited by Indigenous peoples can practice engagement in ways that benefit both companies and communities.

The training focused on gaining a social license to operate, underscoring how companies that do not directly and skillfully address social issues risk losing access to the resources that are fundamental to their businesses. Simultaneously, the training looked at how Indigenous communities are attempting to identify how they might engage with companies to increase their own peoples’ well being, and begin constructive dialogue with companies to foster mutually beneficial relationships.

This story talks about Titian Perdamaian Institutes and their volunteer program for civilian peacekeepers.

This report examines the effectiveness of CSR in Indonesia by addressing two questions. First, does CSR have the capacity to change the behaviour of corporations and second, at this stage of development and given the economic crisis is CSR relevant for Indonesia.

This action research project investigates how the empowerment of women within a mine-affected community can contribute to the development of sustainable local livelihoods. The research aims to test the hypothesis that women's empowerment is the key to wider community empowerment and the creation of sustainable livelihoods in mine-affected communities. The results of the research will contribute to the formulation of better strategies or models of good practice for the management of 'community affairs' by mining companies operating in Indonesia and other developing countries of the Asia Pacific region.

The model for understanding and operationalizing an empowerment approach to development presented in this volume is simple. The book translates a long-standing academic discourse on structure and agency into an actionable framework that can, in practice, help change power relations and in turn reduce poverty. Using the concepts of asset-based agency and institution-based opportunity structure, this empowerment framework can be applied across dimensions of both action and analysis.

Using six case studies, from Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe the authors investigate the effect of energy price increases on the poor, inflation, growth, public revenues, and industrial competitiveness.