With support from RWI, the Agency for Cooperation in Research and Development (ACORD) strengthened stakeholder collaboration in Tanzania around the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and developed strategies for disseminating EITI-related information in order to facilitate greater public awareness on the importance of good governance.

In 2007 RWI began working with ACORD to build multi-stakeholder collaboration for promoting transparency in the mining industry. The project's main goals included establishing a multi-stakeholder network to spread awareness about transparency of local revenue receipts and expenditures after Tanazania experienced a mining boom in recent years. ACORD worked to map partners, meet with sub-national and local government, develop an EITI information communication strategy, and established relationships with regional and international transparency networks. The ACORD team conducted a baseline study to initiate understanding of resource revenue transparency and facilitated capacity building for partners on norms of good governance in the extractive industries, corporate social responsibility and citizen rights.

Building on those efforts, ACORD hosted a regional workshop where local government authorities, the media, academic institutions and companies identified strategic linkages among themselves, as well as with the EITI multi-stakeholder group. ACORD also launched a print and radio campaign to raise public awareness. Tanzania signed up to EITI in February 2009. In February 2011, Tanzania released its first EITI report and began the EITI validation process.