RWI Contract Transparency Fellowship
To expand the research on contract transparency, RWI is sponsoring a fellowship at the Human Rights Institute of Columbia University Law School. The focus of the fellowship is a systematic examination of the extractive industry's confidentiality practices and limits on disclosure of natural resource contracts.
The project entails a comparative study of existing contracts, library and desk research, field research and extensive interviews of those closely involved in contracting processes. It will also generate case studies of selected contract and agreements with varying degrees of transparency.
The resulting knowledge will promote an informed and nuanced conversation on extractive industry contracts, among home and host governments, investors, banks, and civil society. The inquiry extends beyond the text of contracts themselves to assess conditions that limit access and transparency, variations in business practices, effects of local laws, the role of banks and international financial institutions, and the relationship to anti-bribery legislation.
Progress and findings will be disseminated through workshops, trainings and an advocacy-oriented publication during the fellowship's first year.
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Revenue Watch and our partners engage in increasingly diverse forms of public finance monitoring, including service delivery, participatory budgeting, and aid and expenditure tracking. Our partners are coalescing into an indigenous-led network of non-governmental organizations at the forefront of the battle against corruption and abuse of the public interest.
Grant-making is RWI's primary tool for engaging civil society in resource-rich countries and is an important means to motivate, support and build grassroots movements that create sustained local and international demand for revenue and expenditure transparency.
RWI takes a comprehensive approach to improving governance and development across the entire value chain, from the organization of extractive production, revenue generation, and revenue management, and through to the expenditure processes and national development outcomes.