RWI's Oil and Gas Transparency Mechanism ensured all groups had access to the same information about Blora and Bojonegoro's oil projects.
RWI gathered oil company representatives, government officials and local civil society organizations for a workshop to foster communication between the groups.
Due largely to oil, Piura’s annual budget nearly tripled over the last decade, to $415 million. RWI assisted regional government officials make realistic medium-term plans for education, health and other programs with this revenue windfall.
RWI sought to help the regional government of Piura in Peru improve its ability to track revenue and improve its planning.
Development in Peru is determined by the “magic number”—an annual budget regional governments are given by the Ministry of Finance every year. Because regional governments must spend the money before the end of the year, little thought goes into planning objectives, goals, projects or budgets.
This video explains how RWI's new approach to forecasting and budgeting helped the regional government in Piura better manage its oil and mining revenues after a recession caused oil prices to drop.
Revenue Watch developed a new approach to forecasting and budgeting to help regional governments in Peru better manage the windfall of oil and mining revenues after the decentralization of the federal government.
This video explains how RWI and local groups helped the governments and communities of Blora and Bojonegoro the ability to wisely spend and manage newly earned oil revenue.
Veteran lawmakers met with brand-new parliamentarians at an RWI workshop on oversight of the oil, gas and mineral sectors.
Nigeria's proposed Petroleum Industry Bill, before parliament now, could actually make the country's oil industry worse.
RWI recently submitted comments on the draft revision of the Equator Principles, a risk framework used by financial institutions for managing social risks behind big projects.
RWI developed a new approach to forecasting and budgeting to help regional governments in Peru deal with the windfall of oil and mining revenues after the decentralization of the federal government.
How two districts in Indonesian are turning substantial resource revenues into sustainable development.
The draft Petroleum Industry Bill currently before parliament is unlikely to significantly boost performance of the country’s troubled national oil company.
At a 14 October press conference, Afghanistan's Mining Minister Wahidullah Shahrani said: "No contract will be kept secret."
What will the government do next to fulfill and sustain its stated goal of transparency in Afghanistan’s extractives sector?
API's attempt to gut Dodd-Frank disclosures puts oil companies at the back of the pack and behind the times on transparency.
RWI's written comments on the draft of the updated Equator Principles (EP III) released for public comment on 13 August 2012.
Parliamentarians from six Middle East/North Africa countries recently gathered for a workshop on lawmaking and oil and mining industry oversight.
RWI found there to be little or no publicly available data on transit tariffs and state transit revenues in Bulgaria, Georgia, Ukraine and Turkey.
A current effort to reform EITI will determine how the initiative will remain relevant in this new era of transparency requirements by governments.
The American Petroleum Institute today filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn U.S. law requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publish what they pay governments.
RWI President Daniel Kaufmann explains how systematic corruption contributed the downfall of the Greek economy.
Crude oil sales make up 70 percent of the government’s annual revenue, so it's imperative for journalists to know how oil revenue is managed.
RWI cohosted a technical briefing for Ugandan MPs on the Public Finance Bill, which is lawmakers' best hope for establishing a strong legal framework to manage oil revenues.