CONNEX HISTORY
1999 – 2013: The start of the process
The process then shifted to Columbia University, where the Columbia Program on International Investment (CPII – a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University) hosted an event in May 2006 to obtain feedback from legal experts, which was supplemented by consultations with representatives of the least developed countries. Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance then joined the initiative.
2013: The Monrovia Declaration
(1) an information-sharing and coordination mechanism, possibly taking the form of an online database portal;
(2) a contract negotiation support center;
and
(3) a rapid response advisory unit mobilizing multi-disciplinary expertise to step in when governments need timely advice before and during negotiations.
2015: Establishment of the Negotiation Support Portal
2014: Official launch at the G7 summit in Brussels
2015/16: Reaffirmation during the G7 summits in Elmau and Ise-Shima
At their summit in Ise-Shima during the Japanese G7 Presidency in May 2016, the G7 leaders pledged to intensify the efforts under the CONNEX Initiative, for example by endorsing the CONNEX Guiding Principles towards Sustainable Development to facilitate the mobilization of domestic resources in developing countries, thereby contributing to the attainment of the SDGs.
Parallel to, but entirely independent from, the discussions leading to the establishment of an institutional structure to support contract negotiations, the German Government supported the CONNEX Negotiations Support Forum (NSF) between 2015 and 2017 in the framework of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development. It aimed to improve knowledge-sharing and peer learning on contract negotiation support among partner countries, service providers and investors.
OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
2017: Launch of the CONNEX Support Unit
1999 – 2013: The start of the process
The process then shifted to Columbia University, where the Columbia Program on International Investment (CPII – a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University) hosted an event in May 2006 to obtain feedback from legal experts, which was supplemented by consultations with representatives of the least developed countries. Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance then joined the initiative.
2013: The Monrovia Declaration
(1) an information-sharing and coordination mechanism, possibly taking the form of an online database portal;
(2) a contract negotiation support center;
and
(3) a rapid response advisory unit mobilizing multi-disciplinary expertise to step in when governments need timely advice before and during negotiations.
2015: Establishment of the Negotiation Support Portal
2014: Official launch at the G7 summit in Brussels
2015/16: Reaffirmation during the G7 summits in Elmau and Ise-Shima
At their summit in Ise-Shima during the Japanese G7 Presidency in May 2016, the G7 leaders pledged to intensify the efforts under the CONNEX Initiative, for example by endorsing the CONNEX Guiding Principles towards Sustainable Development to facilitate the mobilization of domestic resources in developing countries, thereby contributing to the attainment of the SDGs.
Parallel to, but entirely independent from, the discussions leading to the establishment of an institutional structure to support contract negotiations, the German Government supported the CONNEX Negotiations Support Forum (NSF) between 2015 and 2017 in the framework of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development. It aimed to improve knowledge-sharing and peer learning on contract negotiation support among partner countries, service providers and investors.
OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
2017: Launch of the CONNEX Support Unit