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The document details a workshop on the regional dimensions of conflict in the Great Lakes Region, analyzing how factors like the proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW), illegal exploitation of lootable natural resources, and forced displacement create a self-perpetuating cycle of instability. It examines the role of regional bodies like the ICGLR and EAC in promoting peace and highlights the critical need for good governance, human rights protections, and coordinated regional strategies to address the root causes of violence.

The report details a workshop held on March 26, 2009, which brought together academics, policy-makers, and researchers to assess Manitoba's readiness for climate change. It identifies key climate risks for the Prairie region, such as water scarcity and ecosystem shifts, and outlines existing provincial activities like the 'Beyond Kyoto' action plan and various sustainable agriculture and water management projects. Participants highlighted significant barriers to adaptation, including short-term policy thinking, a lack of community-level capacity, and the absence of an overarching provincial adaptation strategy. The document proposes the creation of a Manitoba Climate Research Table to coordinate efforts and break down institutional silos, and discusses the Regional Adaptation Collaborative (RAC) program funded by Natural Resources Canada to address water issues in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

The report details a capacity-building workshop for the ICCN focused on managing natural resource conflicts in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. It identifies three primary conflict categories: park-population tensions, disputes over resource access, and intra/inter-institutional conflicts. Key drivers include the park's expansion without community consensus, the presence of armed groups like the FDLR, and the displacement of Batwa pygmies. The workshop utilized tools such as conflict trees and stakeholder analysis to prioritize strategies, identifying institutional capacity building for the army and ICCN, co-management, and the complete delimitation of the park as top priorities.

The document analyzes the tension between South Africa's early post-apartheid commitment to human rights and its subsequent foreign policy priorities, which shifted toward African solidarity, global governance reform, and strategic relations with powers like China. It highlights specific controversies, such as the treatment of Zimbabwe and the denial of a visa to the Dalai Lama, as evidence of this shift.

The report details a scoping workshop held in Johannesburg in October 2010 to launch the APRM Monitoring Project (AMP). The project seeks to empower civil society organisations (CSOs) in Southern Africa to track the implementation of National Programmes of Action (NPoA) through the APRM Monitoring & Advocacy Template (AMAT). The workshop identified challenges such as limited CSO resources, low public visibility of the APRM, and the need for collaborative rather than antagonistic relationships with governments. Lessons from Uganda's NGO Forum highlighted the value of aligning APRM monitoring with existing governance networks. The workshop concluded with a consensus on the need for an independent, inclusive, and grassroots-oriented review process.

The workshop brought together practitioners and policymakers to discuss early lessons from adaptation projects in south-eastern Africa. Key discussions focused on coping with extreme events, health impacts, and energy vulnerabilities, while exploring the distinction between development and adaptation projects. The event highlighted the need for participatory, community-led approaches and better access to climate data and international funding.

The Ports of Seattle and Tacoma, in collaboration with RMI and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, held a workshop to address environmental impacts and operational inefficiencies in container shipping. Participants identified 44 ideas categorized as leadership, partnership, or 'Blue Sky' opportunities. Key recommendations include the electrification of yard hostlers, the creation of a centralized transportation information system, and the implementation of a lease-to-own financing model for drayage truckers to acquire cleaner vehicles. The report also explores long-term 'NuPort' concepts, such as unmanned ships and wind-powered vessels, to minimize total energy expenditure in the global supply chain.

The Russian Federation proposed a two-track approach to climate targets: a 'Kyoto track' to simplify the bureaucratic process for countries joining Annex B, and a 'Convention track' to recognize and incentivize voluntary targets by Non-Annex I countries through finance and technology transfer. While Annex B parties generally supported the simplification of accession procedures, Non-Annex I countries expressed skepticism, fearing that voluntary targets could eventually be converted into binding commitments. The report notes that the proposal lacked detail on the allocation of emitting rights for new Annex B members and suggests the initiative may have been driven by internal Russian agency competition.

The report details a workshop on rural electrification in Eastern and Southern Africa, emphasizing that modern energy services must be integrated with income-generating activities and social welfare to drive development. It evaluates various delivery mechanisms—including grid extension, solar home systems, and micro-hydro power—and argues that while the private sector can play a role, government support, subsidies, and decentralized institutional frameworks are essential for sustainable rural energy access.

The report details a workshop on integrating public benefits—such as rural electrification, energy efficiency, and renewable energy—into power sector reforms in developing countries. It argues that while reforms can threaten traditional public benefit delivery, they also create opportunities for new, more transparent regulatory frameworks. The document emphasises the need for broader stakeholder involvement, including NGOs and academia, and calls for specialised training and research-based capacity building to ensure reforms align with sustainable development goals.

The Lima Workshop on Mining and Sustainable Development in the Americas brought together 76 representatives from 11 countries to establish a shared vision for the industry. The participants identified five strategic objectives—improved living conditions, sustainable technology and economic development, transparent policies, social consensus, and democratic participation—and formed working groups to implement them. The report details lessons learned from various multi-stakeholder dialogue cases across the region, emphasizing the need for transparency, early community engagement, and the building of negotiation capacity within local communities.

The Lima Workshop on Mining and Sustainable Development in the Americas brought together 76 representatives from 11 countries to address the environmental and social impacts of mining. Participants identified five strategic objectives for a vision of "Balanced, Harmonious and Sustainable Development": improved living conditions, sustainable technologies and economic development, transparent regulations and policies, internalized social consensus, and democratic participation of stakeholders. The workshop focused on the mechanics of multi-stakeholder processes, analyzing what facilitates successful consensus (such as third-party facilitators and early stakeholder involvement) and what hinders it (such as unrealistic expectations and short timelines). The event concluded with the formation of five working groups to develop concrete actions for each strategic objective, coordinated by the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

The workshop brought together 35 participants from 21 global and regional web initiatives to map their niches, share challenges, and establish the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group. Key outcomes include a detailed knowledge map of existing platforms and the identification of four joint projects focusing on linked open data, a 'portal-of-portals' for signposting, shared search facilities, and metadata standards.

The workshop addressed the emerging waste stream of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in South Africa, noting that while most current waste stems from damage, obsolete panels will increase significantly within five years. Participants discussed the legal ban on solar panels in landfills starting August 2021, the need for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, and the trade-offs between centralized recycling facilities and local dismantling hubs. The report highlights the importance of the waste management hierarchy—preventing, reusing, and repairing—and suggests that while full local recycling may not be feasible in the short term, local pre-processing and the export of PV cells are viable options.

The workshop, held in Costa Rica, brought together 38 experts to discuss the feasibility of using small clusters of aggregated national indicators to track sustainability. Participants reached a high level of consensus on the desirability of such clusters to balance human and ecological wellbeing, while emphasizing the need to embed these indicators in policy-making processes and test them with real data. The report identifies challenges such as the value-based nature of sustainability and the need for cultural adaptation of measurement practices.

The report examines the challenges of defence integration in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arguing that the process is primarily a short-term political measure to end hostilities rather than a purely military reform. It highlights a history of governance deficits, where military professionalism was replaced by clientelism and ethnic representativity, leading to state collapse. The document advocates for a comprehensive approach to security sector reform (SSR) that integrates defence, public service, and business sector reforms to prevent the recurrence of a destructive 'war economy'. It also details a workshop conducted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Labor Optimus to encourage the DRC's engagement with the SADC Organ for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation (OPDSC).

The GSA's National Deep Energy Retrofit (NDER) program demonstrated that deep energy retrofits can achieve significantly higher savings than typical federal projects, with 10 GSA ESPC projects averaging 38% savings compared to 21% in other agencies. A stakeholder workshop identified key barriers in project delivery, team dynamics, integrative design, operations and maintenance (O&M), and project economics. Recommended improvements include transitioning to whole-building performance contracts for O&M and combining energy efficiency contracts with appropriated renovation funds to incentivize deeper savings.

The workshop report examines the challenges of regional integration in Southern Africa, noting that the linear European model of integration may not suit African contexts. Key obstacles identified include overlapping memberships in regional economic communities (RECs), the dominance of larger economies like South Africa, Egypt, and Kenya, and a heavy reliance on external donor funding. The report highlights the potential of the Tripartite FTA to resolve fragmentation and calls for a cost-benefit analysis of integration to align regional priorities with national interests.

The report outlines the outcomes of a March 2010 workshop convened by the World Resources Institute, where experts from over ten GHG inventory programs discussed the evolution of corporate GHG accounting. It identifies a shift toward value-chain management and the increasing role of climate policy in developing countries as drivers for expanding accounting capacity. The document concludes that future efforts must focus on increasing the scale of accounting capacity, transitioning from measurement to management, and improving coordination between programs.