Mauritania: Strengthening Civil Society Capacity in the EITI Process
In 2006 with support of the World Bank's Development Grant Facility and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RWI provided funding to the Association des Femmes Chefs de Famille (AFCF) in Mauritania.
The project objectives were to educate Mauritanian civil society organizations on the principles of the PWYP campaign and encourage their active involvement in the EITI process through trainings, increased public awareness about the benefits of revenue transparency, and capacity building for local groups in analyses of national oil revenue information.
Mauritania is the youngest oil producer in Africa. Now is a crucial time in the development of its extractive industries sector, and an important opportunity to support civil society as it develops new models that help the nation avoid the mistakes of its less transparent neighbors.
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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.