Background

Business and Security

Who we are

DCAF work with business, governments and communities to improve security, sustainable development and respect for human rights. We play a leading role globally in improving oversight and accountability of the private security industry.

We engage actively to address security and human rights challenges related to the extractives sector when operating in complex environments.

More broadly, DCAF supports initiatives at local, national and international levels that promote responsible business conduct.
US AT A GLANCE
PUBLICATION: Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights

Our Programmes

DCAF’s Business and Security Division develops innovative partnerships with companies, governments and communities to improve security, sustainable development and respect for human rights.

We engage on two levels:
    - Support to international initiatives that promote responsible business conduct
    - Support to national implementation in the field of business and security

Business, Security and Human Rights

Private Security Governance

Security and Human Rights implementation Mechanism (SHRIM)

Resources

Business and Security Sector Reform: The Case of Corporate Security Responsibility

Norms and good practices in private security regulation

How is the private security industry in Latin America responding to COVID19?

The role of CSOs in the good governance of private security in Nigeria

Private security in the Northern Triangle - Guatemala

Montreux Document Forum

Gender and Private Security Regulation

Use of Force by Private Security Providers: What Regulatory Approaches for States?

Private Security Governance Observatory

Security and human rights implementation mechanism annual report 2018

Business and Security Hub

Whose responsibility?

ICOCA

Intelligence Budget Cycles

Private security and human rights - institutional practices and the role of Ombudsman Institutions

Towards an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers: A View from Inside a Multistakeholder Process

Study on the private military and security industry in Madagascar

Managing Security and Protecting Rights

National Human Rights Institutions, Ombudsman and Private Security

Security and Human Rights Knowledge Hub

Private military and security regulation

A new wave? Addressing the contemporary use of private military and security companies in armed conflict and complex environments

THREE INITIATIVES to support business, security and human rights

Understanding private surveillance providers and technologies

Partners

  • The Montreux Document Forum
  • Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  • International Code of Conduct Association (ICoCA)
  • UNLIREC
  • DiploFoundation
  • University of Denver
  • IPIECA (The global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues)
  • Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada)
  • Lumière Synergie pour le Développement (LSD)
  • Socios Perú
  • Geneva Internet Platform
  • Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • German Federal Foreign Office
  • ASSN