PDCI is involved in climate change thematics through the Initiative for Peacebuilding, Early Warning Project. Indeed, it partners with the centers in Mexico and Argentina to provide analysis of existing responses to consequences of climate change and to build capacity for civil society to develop early warning system and prevent conflicts. For more information on that, please click here.

Partners Centers, mostly in Latin America, work at the interface between businesses, communities, environmental groups and the government to advance both economic growth and environmental sustainability.

We recognize that the success of democratic governance has much to do with a viable, growing, and regulated market economy; at the same time, a viable market sector owes much to a democratic, transparent governance system.  We actively engage the private sector in our programs, from local business owners setting up an anti-corruption coalition, to international corporations working with the government to ensure that royalty income is spent wisely on projects that benefit communities. Our economic development and environmental sustainability programs focus predominantly on issues of equality, which are often neglected in favor of basic economic advancement; however, this oversight might prove harmful to countries' long-term strategies and economic sustainability.

When economic development is seen as being in competition with preserving biodiversity and environmental health, neither interest is fully served.  Partners has developed consensus-building processes to change the paradigm of confrontation between the private and public sectors to one that provides “wins” to all stakeholders in these multi-level, complex issues. 

Partners main areas of expertise include: