• The Kimberley Process Derails Over Zimbabwe - NGOs Walk Out of Kinshasa KP Meeting, Consider Options
• Zimbabwe?  No Double Standards Here…
• Kinshasa Text
• Minister Mpofu - How not to Win Friends and Influence People
• Ethical Consumers and Africa - A Growing Disconnect
• The Kimberley Process: Necessary, but not Sufficient
• Looking for a Hero – Will the Diamond Industry Please Stand Up?
• Going Round in Consensus Circles
• Searching for a Silver Lining

Taming the Resource Curse: Implementing the ICGLR Certification Mechanism for Conflict-prone Minerals
March 2011
This report outlines how to develop a regional certification mechanism for tracking high value and conflict prone minerals in Africa’s Great Lakes region. Based on lessons learned from other certification mechanisms, particularly the Kimberley Process, it promotes key principles that will make for a stronger and more effective regulatory scheme for four minerals—namely gold, coltan, tungsten and tin.

DIAMONDS WITHOUT BORDERS: An Assessment of the Challenges of Implementing and Enforcing the KP Certification Scheme
November 2010
In 2010, Israel (the Chair of the KPCS) prioritized strengthening KPCS efforts to combat diamond smuggling. In support of this priority, PAC worked with Israel, Canada and the United States to conduct multi-stakeholder consultations in four West African countries and to organize an Enforcement Seminar during the KPCS Intersessional in Tel Aviv (June 2010). The results of these activities can be found in this report on diamond smuggling, which was presented to the KPCS Plenary in November 2010. 

DIAMONDS AND CLUBS: The Militarized Control of Diamonds and Power in Zimbabwe
June 2010
A new PAC report about Zimbabwe’s contested diamond fields is about many things: smuggling and frontier hucksterism; a scramble fuelled by raw economic desperation and unfathomable greed; and heart-wrenching cases of government-sponsored repression and human rights violations.  It’s a story about political intrigue, ambition and a complete disregard for decency or the rule of law.  It is also a story of how the Kimberley Process - the international initiative created to ensure that the trade in diamonds does not fund violence and civil war - has lost its way. Read the report. Read the Press Release

Paddles for Kimberley: An Agenda for Reform
June 2010
This report explores the many challenges faced by the Kimberley Process, including the obstacles posed by an annually rotating chair, particularly organizational memory; alternatives to the current consensus based decision-making process; follow up to review missions; making human rights language and protection more explicit in KP minimum requirements; and challenges enforcing internal controls.

Reviewing Africa’s Peer Review Mechanism: A Seven Country Survey
March 2010.
“Reviewing Africa’s Peer Review Mechanism: A Seven Country Survey”, by Ghanaian political economist Adotey Bing-Pappoe, assesses the progress made in some of the major countries that have begun to implement the APRM and address their governance problems.

Organisations de la société civile, participons au Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs (MAEP)
Partnership Africa Canada and INADES-Formation, January 2010. This guide is published jointly by PAC and INADES-Formation to enable African civil society organizations to learn about the African Peer Review Mechanism. PAC has been working for several years to strengthen the participation of African civil society in the APRM.  (In French only) (Open the document in low resolution here)

Lifting the Veil: Exploring the Transparency of Canadian Companies
November 2009. Publish What You Pay Canada has published a pioneering report on public disclosure regulations in Canada's extractive industries. The report details the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian disclosure rules, providing NGOs, investors and the media with a new and detailed roadmap for holding mining oil and gas companies accountable for their activities and policies.
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Diamonds and Human Security, Annual Review 2009
October 2009. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which regulates the world trade in rough diamonds, is the only thing standing between the industry and a return to blood diamonds. And it is failing, according to the 2009 edition of Partnership Africa Canada’s Diamonds and Human Security Annual Review. The failure of the KP, the report says, is not caused by warlords and sanctions busters but by governments at the centre of its administration which refuse to get tough on blatant smuggling, human rights abuse and money laundering.
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• Monitoring the APRM’s mixed messages :The continental governance of the APRM lacks transparency
• APRM news at the national level
• Global trends in NGO law – a new journal :Laws enacted in some African countries target NGOs involved in human rights and democracy work

• Civil society APRM resources
• Yaoundé APRM seminar report
• Media watch

Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
March 2009. This report describes the role of diamonds in the Zimbabwean economy and their place in the country’s increasingly repressive governance. It describes growing evidence of smuggling, the militarization of diamond resources and the killing of dozens of unarmed diamond diggers by the armed forces of Zimbabwe. The report describes the lacklustre role in all of this played by the Kimberley Process, and it asks the United Nations Security Council to step in.