PWYP-Africa Regional Coordinator Support
In 2006 and 2007, RWI began providing funding to Catholic Relief Services Cameroon to support the establishment and daily functioning of a PWYP Africa Regional Coordinator. Funding has contributed to the salary, benefits, travel and operational costs of the position; the purpose of the position is to service and coordinate the PWYP campaign in Africa in collaboration with national coalitions and PWYP NGO partners in order to bring about greater transparency in the management of revenues from the extractive industries. The Africa Regional Coordinator reports to a small management team on a weekly basis comprised of several representatives of donor NGOs and local African PWYP coalitions, including: Emmanuel Kuyole, ISODEC (Ghana), Julie McCarthy, Revenue Watch Institute (USA), Jennifer Nazaire, CRS-Cameroon (Cameroon), Patrick Lafon, PWYP Cameroon (Cameroon), Radhika Sarin, International PWYP Coordinator (United Kingdom), and Sarah Wykes, Global Witness (United Kingdom).
Several organizations are already providing support to PWYP coalitions in the form of financial assistance, capacity building programs, information resources and advocacy advice. This support has been critical to the development of PWYP in Africa thus far to ensure more efficient communication between PWYP partners in the region and more effective advocacy actions at a regional level, particularly with regards to the policies and activities of the international financial institutions.
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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.