Welcome to the Development Resource Management Portal

Video Spotlight

The Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Project (PRADD) is a USAID-funded pilot program designed to improve the lives of diamond miners and their communities by developing methods to achieve clear, secure, and publicly acknowledged rights to land and resources. The methodology developed by PRADD helps miners to affirm their customary property rights claims, providing them a measure of protection they never had before. It also offers a way to improve compliance with the Kimberley Process, which was developed to trace a diamond's origin to ensure that it was not used to fund violence. Two videos were made to show government officials, professionals working with the Kimberley Process and others involved in Land Tenure and Property Rights how the process works.

Diamonds, Development, and Property Rights

This video details the problems faced by diamond miners working with alluvial diamonds in the Central African Republic, and the challenges of affirming property rights at the grass roots level. The video briefly summarizes the 8-step process PRADD developed to translate customary rights into statutory rights. The process combines community development techniques to identify, organize, and motivate miners with GPS devices to precisely locate the mining claims.

Click here to access the video transcript

Click here for French version.

More than a piece of paper

This video details the 8-step process PRADD developed to make the customary property rights of tribal communities visible within the structure of national statutory laws. The PRADD process helps the miners document customary property rights claims, eventually moving towards legalizing those claims at the government level and making it easier to trace the diamonds they find with the Kimberley Process.

Click here to access the video transcript

Click here for French version.

For further information, contact Gregory Myers (gmyers@usaid.gov) or Michael Roth at ARD (MRoth@ardinc.com).

Online Learning

The Portal provides a web-based learning management system used for delivering online courses, and managing virtual learning communities. It is designed using sound constructivist pedagogical principles and has the ability to create syllabi, objectives, content modules, assignments, tests, and social course activities like forums, chats, news and calendars.
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Regional and Global Initiatives

• Africa (ENCAP)
• Asia and Near East
• Latin America and Caribbean
• Presidential Initiatives
• Environmental Compliance

Issues and Challenges

• Conflict Management
• Conservation Financing
• Linking Producers to Markets
• Micro Enterprise
• Disaster Response
• Women in Development

How to Participate in the Portal

Much of the Development Resource Management Portal is available to the public. Some materials and functionality are private and membership is required for access. Members are allowed to publically or privately post and share content, and use group collaboration services. This level of access is currently granted to USAID staff and partners. If you are interested in becoming a member please contact your USAID staff representative, or email the Portal Administrator (info@rmportal.net).
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How to find Information on the Portal

Search Portal
Use the Search Portal tool in the upper left column to search for content indexed by keyword, title, description, and the text of entire Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat documents. This tool makes searching more comprehensive and relevant. Click Advanced Search for more detailed searching options.

Browse By
Use the Browse By links in the upper upper left column to search portal content in a way that fits your research style. You may browse the portal content collection by theme, keyword, title, language, date posted, portal content type, library catalog, group, and by geographic region.

The Partner Search tool enables you to search across our partner websites without leaving the Portal. Using external search technology the Partner Search tool brings back actual documents (PDFs, Word, PowerPoint) as well as relevant weblinks and html pages.
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Working Collaboratively Inside the Portal

The Portal provides members a neutral group space to collaboratively work together. Group 'workflow'; tools include: public and private news and calendars, a newsletter service, content sharing, group email notification, group member listing, shared library services, smartfolder content aggregators, and content flagging and indexing.
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Adding Content to the Portal

Different types of content can be added to the portal: webpages, documents, spreadsheets, images, flash videos, audio files, events, and news. Portal members are allowed to flag their content using metadata including self-suggested keywords, copyright, contributors, authors, and relevant time-sensitive information.
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