REVENUE WATCH INSTITUTE GRANTS
Grant-making is Revenue Watch'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 revenue and expenditure transparency, both locally and internationally. In resource-rich countries level, where we devote the bulk of our grantmaking resources, we place special emphasis on support to local partners forming coalitions and conducting analysis and advocacy on revenue transparency, with a special focus on promotion of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). At the international level, RWI organizes and sponsors a limited number of conferences and workshops to help foster broader public engagement in extractive sector budget monitoring and fiscal transparency.
RWI also supports local and international partners work on broader revenue transparency issues work such as oil, gas and mining revenue monitoring; revenue management laws and taxation regulations; licensing and contracts policies; IFI and donor lending policies; participatory budgeting and expenditure tracking; study tours for NGOs; and monitoring and partnerships between civil society and companies. RWI has also introduced two new areas for its 2008 grant support: building civil society's capacity to engage legislatures on improving extractive sector governance and management, and supporting local civil society groups in producing regions, to create better extractive sector governance and management at the sub-national level.
HOW TO APPLY
All requests for funding should generally fall within one of the following focus areas:
- Independent civil society monitoring, research and advocacy on natural resource revenue flows and natural resource revenue management;
- Assistance to broad-based civil society coalitions working to support the adoption/implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), that have come with a joint research, capacity-building and advocacy strategy and action plan
- Support for groups involved in legislative monitoring, advocacy and capacity-building
- Support for groups in producing regions engaged in revenue and expenditure monitoring, advocacy and capacity-building efforts
- Independent civil society monitoring, research and advocacy on public budgets, with a focus on;
- enhancing public/CSO participation in the budget formulation process;
- enhancing the quality, timeliness and transparency of budget-related information;
- enhancing the accountability and quality of public expenditures, particularly related to social services such as health and education;
- enhancing the quality and quantity of public debate in the media and other multi-stakeholder forums
- reducing the institutional opportunities for 'leakage' of public funds through promotion of policy reforms at the local, regional and national level
- Support for civil society, media and/or parliamentary trainings and capacity- building focused on the extractive industries, budget policies and processes, and public finance management
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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.