RESOLVE’s “HealthGrid Sierra Leone” successfully concludes, paving way for HETA Sierra Leone and a pioneering new sustainability mechanism

Transforming Public Health in Sierra Leone: HealthGrid Sierra Leone brings Power, Connectivity, and Improved Infrastructure to Remote Communities

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Towards Responsible Mineral Development – GEMM 2020

Glenn Sigurdson and his team at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver gathered over 140 leaders from around the world to take stock of progress to date on the question of what is “responsible” and think about how to take this agenda forward.

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Innovation and Leadership

It takes innovation and leadership to re-incentivize a supply chain to eliminate the potential for conflict minerals.

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Voluntary Governance

Yesterday’s blog post on a new RESOLVE pilot project highlights one example of voluntary collaboration among businesses to develop tools for addressing urgent environmental and social challenges.

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New RESOLVE Solutions Network Program

RESOLVE is pleased to announce the launch of a new pilot project—the Conflict-Free Smelter (CFS) Early Adopters Fund. This Fund, initiated by Intel, HP and GE, is designed to support responsible minerals sourcing by encouraging smelters and refineries (smelters) to become early-adopters of the CFS Program, which seeks to end supply chain support for the sale of illicit minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the surrounding region.

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Joint Fact-Finding Builds Consensus, Makes Partners Out of Adversaries

RESOLVE was pleased to welcome Masahiro Matsuura, Professor at the University Of Tokyo Graduate School Of Public Policy, to our Washington, DC offices last week to share insights on an important mediation technique known as joint fact-finding (JFF).

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Collaboration Inside

In a recently released White Paper Intel recounts the history of its response, to date, to the challenge of conflict minerals potentially entering its supply chain.

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Responsible Mineral Development Initiative

For those interested in sustainable development and mining the new report announced at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is worth a read.

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Environmentalists Get Down to Earth

Here at RESOLVE we’ve been talking about a recent story (17 December 2011) in The New York Times “Environmentalists Get Down to Earth” that talked about new leadership in the conservation movement and the evolution of environmental strategies.

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