1. Diamond Development Initiative International
CASM - Brasilia
October 2008

2. What is the DDI International?
The mandate is to bring together NGOs, governments, and the private sector to address the political, social and economic challenges facing the diamond artisanal mining sector.
DDI deals only with artisanal diamond production.
As a development focused organization, DDI International aims to address the relationship between alluvial diamond diggers and all eight UN Millennium Development Goals.

3. What is the DDI International?
DDI complements the Kimberley Process, by concentrating on social and economic factors in artisanal mining, improving livelihoods, working conditions, environment and community beneficiation.
It is also a conflict prevention mechanism: concerned with creating social and economic stability in the artisanal diamond mining sector, a sector that is vulnerable to economic predators, violence-prone and difficult to regulate.

4. What DDI does not do:
Regulate the diamond industry; it supports regulation through the formalization of artisanal mining;
Certify or authenticate the origins of diamonds

5. Acknowledgements CASM/WB Partnership Africa Canada Global Witness
the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability
Tiffany Foundation
Government of Sweden
The industry: BHP Billiton, De Beer’s, Cartier International, International Diamond Manufacturers Association, the JCK Foundation, Jewellers of America, Rapaport Group, Rio Tinto and Signet.

6. Why are artisanally mined diamonds important?
Artisanal diamonds cannot be distinguished from large scale diamonds. They are part of the value chain.
They can potentially bring an important contribution to growth and development in countries were they are mined.
With soaring rough diamond prices and apparently no prospect of significant kimberlitic mines in the next 5 to 10 years, alluvial diamonds play an important role in the diamond supply chain.

7. Why is DDI important?
Social and economic stability in the artisanal diamond mining sector will not happen by chance.
DDI aims to move the artisanal diamond sector from the stigma of conflict and chaos attached to it, towards a heritage of development.
DDI is part of the consumer confidence chain: responding to the consumer demand for ethically sourced and produced diamonds; and to the industry shareholders’ interest in reputational enhancement.
DDI offers an opportunity for engagement to governments, donor agencies, development organizations, and the industry, to create a multi-stakeholder platform so no one is left to do the change alone.

8. DDI’s Activities
Organized 2 international meetings (UK, Ghana) to test the idea of the diamond development initiative
Conducted several published studies: Resource Flows, Diamond Cooperatives in SL, S&G -SL, S&G - DRC.
The Madison Dialogue Diamond Group: development diamonds standards.
Collaboration with Angola: standards for the diamond industry to be at the World Diamond Summit , 2009.
First on the ground project : TUKUDIMUNA- getting children out of Diamond Mines in Mbuji-Mayi, DRC.
Challenge Fund: drawing other partners into the development of artisanal diamond communities.

9. Towards Prosperity Diamonds…
Conflict
Poverty Reduction Environmental protection
Labour Relations
Respect of
Human Rights
Development
PROSPERITY
KP DDI
Tripartite regulatory Multi-stakeholder
system development platform
Government lead Integrated leadership