Parliaments can significantly increase natural resource revenues and help use them wisely, if lawmakers understand the issues and their own budget oversight responsibilities. RWI’s training program gives parliaments the knowledge they need to foster national growth and reduce poverty.
Our toolkit includes briefings on managing oil, gas and minerals, videos offering lessons from lawmakers in their own words, and a study of our impact to date: The Capacity to Change.
Parliaments can significantly increase natural resource revenues and help use them wisely, if lawmakers understand the issues and their own budget oversight responsibilities. RWI’s training program gives parliaments the knowledge they need to foster national growth and reduce poverty.
Our toolkit includes briefings on managing oil, gas and minerals, videos offering lessons from lawmakers in their own words, and a study of our impact to date: The Capacity to Change.
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Lawmakers from Uganda, Sierra Leone and Tanzania face the serious responsibility of ensuring that resource wealth can translate into public benefit. |
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By working directly with civil society, Tanzanian MPs were able to improve their draft mining bill dramatically. |
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Semkae Kilonzo of Policy Forum in Tanzania shares five tips for creating an effective advocacy guide.
Susan al-Saad of the Iraqi parliament recounts how an RWI workshop taught her to tackle problems from a different angle.
The chair of Ghana’s citizen oversight committee joined experts from RWI and Oxfam to discuss the prospects for accountable oil revenue management.
On 1 June in Washington, D.C., distinguished guests joined RWI and Oxfam for a discussion on Ghana's new oil oversight committee.
As the public and the media react to an in-depth report on oil revenues, the government has responded with new disclosures.
The report by Ghana's Public Interest and Accountability Committee heralds a new approach in stronger oversight for the nation's burgeoning oil industry.
RWI consultant Keith Myers reflects on the challenges facing Iraq's parliament in creating a post-dictator oil power structure.
Briefings
A review of the macroeconomic and structural challenges in managing large-scale oil, gas and mining projects, and a policy guide for lawmakers whose countries face these challenges.
Parliaments can use the EITI process to hold government and companies accountable for their management of oil and mining wealth and the social impacts of these industries.
Through the design and oversight of fiscal rules for natural resources, parliaments can help maximize the size, fairness and sustainability of national revenues.
Parliaments can play a critical role in establishing and overseeing state-owned oil and mining programs that operate accountability and effectively.
Disclosure of oil and mining contracts is crucial to ensuring legal compliance and maximum gains, and parliaments are well-placed to advance transparency through legislation and oversight.
