Post-2015 Natural Resource Governance in Africa: African Agency and Transnational Initiatives to Adv

The AMV as African Agency? The most dramatic transformation in the African natural resource policy landscape to date is the adoption of the AMV and its associated Action Plan two years later in 2011, which together can be understood as emblematic of the ongoing redefinition of energy and natural resource governance among emerging African developmental states. [...] With regard to Dodd-Frank, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in association with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, a regional African intergovernmental organization that promotes sustainable peace and development, and a number of local and global non-governmental organizations, is imposing new norms and publicly ranking corporate compliance in the information t. [...] The corporate sector’s International Council on Mining and Metals, the 34-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Economic Forum have each generated their own rules for natural resource governance: the Resource Endowment initiative, Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High Risk Areas, and the Respo. [...] Building on the 1980–2000 Lagos Plan of Action for Economic Development of Africa and seeking to accelerate progress on the MDGs, it focuses on a mix of established and novel issues: the environment, artisanal and small-scale mining, CSR, maximization and management of tax revenues, research and development, and sustainability via backward and forward linkages to secure benefits for Africa itself. [...] The EITI and NRC are primarily endorsed by OECD countries, particularly the Group of Eight, though 23 of the 44 implementing parties to the EITI are African, with 14 being compliant, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Sierra Leone having been suspended, and the rest being candidates seeking validation.