Expanding EITI in Southern Africa – Southern Africa Resource Watch
In 2007 RWI also began providing considerable support to OSI Southern Africa's new Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) program, a new effort to monitor corporate and state conduct in the extraction and management of natural resources in the Southern Africa region, in particular assessing to what extent these efforts contribute to sustainable development. SARW is conducting a mapping and needs assessment for EITI outreach and implementation in nine SADC countries which are Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
This project is just one component of a larger extractive industry research program that SARW has been developing in collaboration with OSISA and RWI. It serves as a feasibility study for engaging Southern African governments and civil society in the EITI by directly addressing each country's perceptions and concerns as well as setting a positive environment around which RWI and SARW can develop more expansive projects.
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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.