Assessment of "positive" schemes to enhance formalization and certification in the diamond industry
Assessment of the Kimberley Process in enhancing formalization and certification in the diamond industry - problems and ppportunities
Remarks of Stephen D'Esposito President, RESOLVE to the National Research Council of the National Academies Board on Earth Sciences and Resources. "Paradigm Shift - A Survey of Key Natural Resource Challenges and the Need for Collaborative Leadership" - October 19, 2010 Keck Center Washington, DC
DDI Workshop on the Mechanisation of Alluvial Diamond Mining (AADM). Barriers and Success Factors. A presentation by Michael Priester and Geert Trappeniers - Jerusalem, Israel, 30-31 October 2010
Heads of state meeting at the 2007 G8 Summit said that they "encourage support for the ... multistakeholder Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), which emerged from the Kimberley Process to strengthen the developmental impacts associated with artisanal diamond mining in Africa" - Growth and Responsibility in the World Economy, G8 Summit Declaration, June 2007
DDII Annual Report 2008 - Beyond Dreams: The Journey Begins
DDII Annual Report 2009 - Beyond Dreams: The Journey Continues
Addis Ababa Declaration on Development and Management of Africa's Mineral Resources, Adopted by the First African Union Conference of Ministers Responsible for Mineral Resources Development, October 17, 2008
Elle Magazine, December 2008 "Hope Diamonds." The story of "Ruff and Cut", a new socially responsible jewelry line, how it evolved and what it means to Sierra Leone's recovery.
Cuango Development Diagnostic and Feasibility Assessment. A description of development in Angola's diamond-rich Cuango Valley, prepared by Management Systems International for USAID in February 2008.
Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Pilot Project. A PowerPoint presentation on a USAID pilot project that is working with artisanal diamond miners on issues of property rights in Guinea and Central African Republic.
"The Kimberley Process is Not Enough." Guest editorial by DDI Executive Director, Dorothée Gizenga, in the October 2008 issue of Modern Jeweler.
"Farming miners" or "mining farmers": Diamond mining and rural development in post-conflict Sierra Leone
Standards & Guidelines for Sierra Leone's Artisanal Diamond Mining Sector
Africa's natural resources are both a blessing and a curse, with good governance remaining an ongoing Holy Grail.
"Linking Research, Policy & Livlihoods: Challenges and Contradictions" by Karen Brock and Elizabeth Harrison: 2007 NRSP brief discusses the contradictions and challenges in turning research into effective policy, with special reference to natural resources, including the mineral sector.
"Sit Up and Listen" from Fall 2007 issue of "Canadian Diamonds" profiles the magazine's "man of the year", DDI Board Chair, Ian Smillie. The article outlines the origins and objectives of the Diamond Development Initiative
"Managing Africa's Natural Resources for Growth & Poverty Reduction" 2007 "Big Table" Report, UN Economic Commission for Africa and African Development Bank
Issues Paper for 2007 "Big Table" Conference on "Managing Africa's Natural Resources for Growth and Poverty Reduction"
"International Standards: A Professional Challenge for Energy & Natural Resources Lawyers", 2004 paper by Thomas Walde
"Women, Mercury & Artisanal Gold Mining, abstract of paper by Hinton, Veiga & Beinhoff
"Occupying the Margins: Labour Integration and Social Exclusion in Artsanal Mining in Tanzania" abstract of a 2007 article by Eleanor Fisher
Diamonds, Blood and Taxes: A Revenue Centred Framework for Explaining Political Order
"Mainstreaming Mineral Wealth in Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategies" ECA Paper by Antonio Pedro
Diamond Industry Annual Review, DRC 2005, Partnership Africa Canada
Diamond Industry Annual Review, Sierra Leone 2006, Partnership Africa Canada
Diamond Industry Annual Review, DRC 2007, Partnership Africa Canada
"A Glittering Future? Gold Mining's Importance to Sub-Saharan Africa". World Gold Council
"Artisanal Mining: 'An Island of Prosperity in a Sea of Poverty'", UNIDO, 2003
Chapter on Artisanal Mining from "Striking a Better Balance", the final report of the World Bank ICMM Extractive Industries Review, 2004
"Artisanal and Small Scale Mining: Challenges and Opportunities", Report by Hentshcel, Hruschka & Priester for IIED and WBCSD, 2004
"Artisanal Mining in China", part of the MMSD Project, 2001
"Global Report on Artisanal and Small Scale Mining", Part of the MMSD Project, 2002
"Artisanal and Small Scale Mining: A Family Affair", 2005 article from Materials World
"An African Success Story: Botswana"; paper describes Botswana's governance, management and diamond resources
"Challenges to Small Scale Mine Development in Suriname", article by Heemskerk and van der Kooye
"Deforestation and Forest Regeneration Following Small Scale Gold Mining in the Amazon: The Case of Suriname", article by Peterson and Heemskerk
"Reforming the DRC Diamond Sector", 2006 Global Witness Report
"Hard Currency: The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the DRC and its Neighbours", 2002 Report from Partnership Africa Canada
"Diamond Smuggling and Taxation in Sub Saharan Africa"; 2003 IMF Working Paper
"Livlihood Decision Making and Environmental Degradation: Small Scale Gold Mining in the Suriname Amazon", article by Marieke Heemskerk
Perceptions of Small Scale Gold Mining Impact in Suriname and French Guiana; WWF paper by Heemskerk and Oliveira
"Millennium Development Goals and Small Scale Mining", a 2005 CASM Report
"Expoitation des Ressources Naturelles et Securite Humaine en RDC", 2004 Report in French on the DRC by Pole Institute and Intyernational Alert
"Natural Resource Exploitation and Human Security in the DRC", 2004 Report by Pole Institute and International Alert
Overcoming Environmental Problems in the Zimbabwean Gold Panning Sector (2003)
"Perceptions of Small Scale Gold Miners on Self Organization and Formalization" in Suriname
"Regulating Mining in Africa: For Whose Benefit?" 2004 Nordiska Afrikainstitutet report edited by Bonnie Campbell
A 2003 ECOSOC summary of reports on artisanal mining in Africa
2003 Report on Coltan Mining in the Kahuzui Buega National Park, DRC, by Kevin D'Souza
"Clean Artisanal Gold Mining: A Utopian Approach?"
"Sierra Leone Diamond Sector: Financial Policy Constraints", 2003 PDA study
"Small Scale Mining and Cleaner Production Issues in Zambia", 2002 paper by Stephen Kambani
Small Scale Mining in Bolivia, 2001 paper for MMSD Project; IIED and WBCSD
Small Scale Mining in Indonesia, 2001 MMSD paper; IIED and WBCSD
Small scale gold mining in the Zambezi basin: an ecological time bomb, paper by Dennis Shoko
Artisanal and small scale mining's contribution to poverty reduction in Tanzania, 2004 paper for DFID
"The Role of ASM and Small Scale Mining in China's Economy", 2004
"A Mining Strategy for Sierra Leone's Post War Recovery Efforts", 2002 World Bank Report
Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Africa: A Reality Check
Diamond Industry Annual Review; Angola 2005; Partnership Africa Canada
Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD); Chapter 13: Artisanal and Small Scale Mining
Diamonds in the Central African Republic: Trading, Valuing and Laundering, by Christian Deitrich; Partnership Africa Canada, 2003
Diamonds, Timber and West African Wars, by Ian Smillie
Dirty Diamonds: Armed Conflict and the Trade in Rough Diamonds; Ian Smillie, 2002
DRC's Natural Treasures: Source of Conflict or Key to Development? Report of a 2006 Expert Meeting
Environmental Management in Small Scale Gold Mining in Ecuador
Environmental Management in the Non-Metallic Small Scale Mining Sector of Brazil
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD); Executive Summary of the Report
Ghana: Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Livlihoods; A Report Focusing on Artisanal Mining Communities
Small Scale Gold Mining: Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Philippines
Ghana: Impact of Mining Sector Investment; Tarkwar Region; SAPRI; 2001
USAID's Integrated Diamond Management Program in Sierra Leone: 2006 Report
Lundas: The Stones of Death; Rafael Marques' hard hitting 2005 report on diamonds in Angola
Macro Economic Issues in Artisanal Diamond Mining, a 2005 DDI paper by Chaim Even-Zohar
Madagascar Gemstone Trade Reform
The Risks of Small Scale Gold Mining in Suriname
Micro Economic Issies in Artisanal Diamond Mining; a 2005 DDI Paper by Ian Smillie
Mining, Sustainable Development and Health in Ghana; A Study of Diamonds in Akwatia
Feasibility Study for a Formal Credit System for Artisanal Diamond Miners in Kono District, Sierra Leone
Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Livlihood: Artisanal Mining in Ethiopia
Report on an artisanal diamond mining cooperative training program in Sierra Leone
Review of On-going Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Activities in Latin America, by Felix Hruschka, 2003
Strategies for Sustainable Development of the Small Scale Gold and Diamond Mining Industry of Ghana
Structural Adjustment and Subsistence Industry: Artisanal Gold Mining in Ghana, By Gavin Hilson and Clive Potter
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector and Sustainable Livlihoods, by Hoadley and Limpitlaw
Sustainable Livlihoods and Artisanal and Small Scale Mining, by James Carnegie
The Mineral Industry of Sierra Leone, by George Coakley
Trends in small scale mining of prescious minerals in Ghana; environmental considerations, Paper by Aryee, Ntibery and Atorkui
Potential Anti Diamond Smuggling Activities; Sierra Leone 2005
USAID, Early progress report on Diamond Policy and Decvelopment Program in Sierra Leone (2001)
Artsanal Mining in the DRC: Key Issues, Challenges and Opportunities, CASM, 2007
Overview of Donor Activities in Small Scale Mining in the DRC, CASM, 2007
Growth & Responsibility in the World Economy: G8 Summit Declaration, June 2007
Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the Road Ahead; by Jennifer Hinton, Marcello Veiga and Christian Beinhoff
Diamond Industry Annual Review, Angola 2007, Partnership Africa Canada
Diamond Industry Annual Review, Sierra Leone, 2004, Partnership Africa Canada
Diamond Industry Annual Review, Sierra Leone, 2005, Partnership Africa Canada
"The Lost World: Diamond Mining and Smuggling in Venezuela", Partnership Africa Canada, 2006
"The Failure of Good Intentions: Fraud, Theft and Murder in the Brazilian Diamond Industry", Partnership Africa Canada, 2005,
"Fugitives and Phantoms: The Diamond Exporters of Brazil", Partnership Africa Canada, 2006
"Triple Jeopardy" Triplicate Forms and Triple Borders: Controlling Diamond Exports from Guyana", Partnership Africa Canada,l 2006.
Diamond Industry Abnnual Review, DRC, 2004, Partnership Africa Canada
Diamond Industry Annual Review, Angola 2004, Partnership Africa Canada
"Land Grabbing and Land Reform: Diamonds, Rubber and Forests in the New Liberia", Partnership Africa Canada, 2007
"Rich Man, Poor Man" Development Diamonds and Poverty Diamonds: The Potential for Change in the Artisanal Alluvial Diamond Fields of Africa. Joint Publication, Partnership Africa Canada and Global Witness
UN OCHA Document describing the expulsion of illegal artisanal diamond diggers from Angola
The Environmental Impact of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana: Identifying Problems and Possible Solutions
Structural Adjustment in Ghana: Assessing the Impacts of Mining-Sector Reform
ILO: Facts on Small Scale Mining
Criminalisation and the politics of governance: illicit gem sapphire mining in Madagascar
War, Peace and Diamonds in Angola:Popular Perceptions of the Diamond Industry in the Lundas
Describes the Background, Aims and Objectives of the Association for Responsible Mining
Press Release on the Creation of the Intergovernmental Mining Forum
International Program on Child Labour: Facts on Child Labour in Small Scale Mining
Risk attitudes and mitigation in the Suriname rainforest
Statement by the United Kingdom to the Inaugural Meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development.