• AFGHANISTAN, Hazrat Ali Mosque, Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh, 2003. A man stands in the middle of a crowd of doves at the Hazrat Ali Mosque.
  • Village elder and daughter at Òjirgao over canal construction with US military Black Knight Troop in Kunar Valley, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2010, Larry Towell
  • AFGHANISTAN, Hazrat Ali Mosque, Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh, 2003. A man stands in the middle of a crowd of doves at the Hazrat Ali Mosque.
  • Village elder and daughter at Òjirgao over canal construction with US military Black Knight Troop in Kunar Valley, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2010, Larry Towell

Mandate

TrustWorks enables public and private actors – including companies, investors, governments and global institutions – to operate in fragile and conflict-affected settings in a manner that is responsible, collaborative and innovative.

TrustWorks’ purpose is to prevent conflict, promote stability and foster peace-positive development with a view to improving the lives and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

TrustWorks’ leading experts have extensive practical experience in fragile and conflict-affected settings; our inter-disciplinary team provides tailored, results-oriented and holistic support to our clients – leveraging our global networks to ensure our efforts are informed by and supportive of local knowledge and expertise.

Companies

We work with companies (MNCs and SMEs) in fragile and conflict-affected settings to provide them with the necessary knowledge, tools and skills on how to operate in a manner that minimises the negative and maximises the positive impacts on peace and stability - through the development of heightened human rights due diligence/conflict-sensitivity analyses and road maps, and relevant operational support, training, facilitation and mediation.

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Investors

We work with investors with portfolios, investments and/or funds in fragile and conflict-affected settings – including Development Financial Institutions (DFIs), impact and commercial/institutional investors - to provide them with the necessary knowledge, tools and skills to put in place the HQ-level policy processes and country-level level investment frameworks and practices to ensure, a minimum, conflict-sensitive and, ideally, peace-promoting investments; we also assist investors with risk/crisis management and monitoring frameworks.

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Governments, IOs, NGOs

We work with multilateral organisations, governments and non-governmental organisations – including the United Nations and partners - to provide them with the necessary knowledge, tools and skills to undertake effective and efficient peacemaking and peacebuilding endeavours, including on issues such as local approaches to peace, HDP nexus and strategic planning; we have a particularly strong focus on natural resources, climate change and conflict (environmental peacebuilding) and supporting peace actors to more effectively engage licit and illicit business actors.

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