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Security and Human Rights Toolkit

Working With Host Governments

Working With Host Governments
Challenge Area

Working with Host Governments

Companies can face difficulties in engaging with host governments when they are setting up or implementing their security arrangements. In many contexts, national and local-level authorities are not aligned, and this can add further complications.

This section helps navigate topics like:

  • How to use company leverage to strengthen respect for human rights
  • How to effectively engage with host government interlocutors
  • How to address sensitive human rights issues constructively with the host government

The good practices included in this Toolkit are not meant to be prescriptive. It is up to the user to evaluate whether they could be feasible, useful and appropriate to the local context in a specific situation on the ground.

Engagement and Coordination with Host Governments
Contexts With Weak Governance and Transparency
Human Rights Concerns
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Colombia Mining and Energy Committee
Case Studies

Colombia Mining and Energy Committee

The Colombia Mining and Energy Committee (CME) is a permanent, independent platform focused on dialogue and collaborative cooperation among various stakeholders from the Colombian government.
Multi-stakeholder in-country working groups (ICWGs)
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Multi-stakeholder in-country working groups (ICWGs)

Best practices in human rights due diligence ar every clear that companies should undertake meaningful consultations and maintain ongoing dialogue with potentially affected groups and other relevant stakeholders.
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About This Toolkit
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Working with Host Governments Working with Public Security Forces Working with Private Security Providers Working with Communities
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The contents of this publication may be freely used and copied for educational and other non-commercial purposes, provided that any such reproduction is accompanied by an acknowledgement of the Security and Human Rights Toolkit (DCAF, ICRC, GCBHR 2022) as the source.

The good practices included in this Toolkit are not meant to be prescriptive. It is up to the user to evaluate whether they could be feasible, useful and appropriate to the local context in a specific situation on the ground. DCAF, ICRC and GCBHR shall not be liable for any kind of loss or damage whatsoever to the user of this Toolkit or a third party arising from reliance on the information contained in this document.

Photo credits:

Home page image: Sebastian Pichler/ Unsplash
Working with host governments: Juan Manuel Herrera – OAS/OEA 2007
Working with public security: V-p-co-e-01169h (international humanitarian law dissemination session) : © CICR/VON TOGGENBURG, Christoph
Working with private security: Chameleons Eye/ ShutterStockWorking with communities: Ines Della Valle, Women in Mining