Participants in the Monrovia conference agreed to create a task force that will focus on the future development of communities dependent on the alluvial mining sector.
By focusing on the human dimension of the diamond industry, UNDP says that its Diamonds for Development programme is complementing other initiatives meant to ensure that sales of rough diamonds do not finance conflicts, such as Security Council embargoes and the Kimberley Process.
Begun in 2000 by southern African diamond-producing countries, the Kimberley Process led to the adoption in November 2002 in Interlaken, Switzerland, of the international Certification Scheme for rough diamonds, based primarily on national certification schemes and on internationally-agreed minimum standards.
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