In recent years, the global demand for natural resources has increased enormously. Western and non-Western companies compete for access to certain natural resources.
This situation asks for a good governance approach to ensure that the resource-rich states benefit from the development, especially in socio-political and economic terms. These countries mostly located in the global South are often conflict-prone and show weak governance structures.
The publication "Friend or Foe? Developing Partnerships in Natural Resources Governance. A Global Stakeholder Analysis" by Annegret Flohr, Melanie Coni-Zimmer and Andreas Jacobs, is a condensed version of a study commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The primary goal of this study was to map the growing field of actors working on development-related questions of natural resource governance and provide a framework for identifying partnership possibilities.
It analyzes four groups of stakeholders: state actors, business actors, civil society actors, and multi-stakeholder initiatives and different governance perspectives.
The study is available as free download.