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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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.
RWI and local partners held a workshop to discuss inputs to three proposed petroleum bills.
RWI and partners analyzed Uganda's new petroleum bills to provide international context to the debate in parliament and across Uganda.
This video explores how legislators won greater disclosure of contracts and the chance to get a better deal for their countries.
This video tells the story of how Tanzanian citizen groups and parliamentarians overcame mutual distrust to craft a better mining law.
At a Canadian parliamentary hearing, members of the mining industry, civil society and parliament expressed strong support for mandatory disclosure rules.
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.
