Resource rich areas in developing countries are often the poorest and most unstable. Yet subnational governments are receiving increasing resource revenues, are regulating and managing many different aspects of the extractive sector and are responsible for providing money for the most important social services to their citizens. Building capacity of subnational actors is key to improving governance of extractive industries.
RWI’s capacity building program works with local and national governments, civil society, journalists and companies to promote transparent, accountable and effective management of nonrenewable natural resources.
Resource rich areas in developing countries are often the poorest and most unstable. Yet subnational governments are receiving increasing resource revenues, are regulating and managing many different aspects of the extractive sector and are responsible for providing money for the most important social services to their citizens. Building capacity of subnational actors is key to improving governance of extractive industries.
RWI’s capacity building program works with local and national governments, civil society, journalists and companies to promote transparent, accountable and effective management of nonrenewable natural resources.
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In 2008, the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI)—in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSF-LGI)—designed a project to address the enormous governance challenges facing local governments in Peru. |
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From 2008 to late 2010, RWI and the Open Society Foundations Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSF-LGI) joined forces with local partners to help implement an oil revenue transparency and sustainable development planning project in Blora and Bojonegoro. |
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Revenue Watch has prepared six draft papers on key topics related to subnational governance of the extractive sector. |
The second day of RWI's subnational workshop featured discussions on local content and transparency in expenditures.
Participants at RWI’s international subnational workshop shared strategies that organizations haved implemented to create interregional learning opportunities.
RWI's subnational workshop this week proves that regardless of where people come from, they all grapple with largely similar resource management issues.
This week, RWI will host a workshop for 60 representatives from civil society organizations, government and global funding and research institutions to discuss and share insights into subnational management of oil, gas and mining revenues.
Revenue Watch has prepared six draft papers on key topics related to subnational governance of the extractive sector.
In 2008, the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI)—in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSF-LGI)—designed a project to address the enormous governance challenges facing local governments in Peru.
From 2008 to late 2010, RWI and the Open Society Foundations Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSF-LGI) joined forces with local partners to help implement an oil revenue transparency and sustainable development planning project in Blora and Bojonegoro.
Briefings
To advance local economic and social development, RWI works with governments, civil society, journalists and companies.
A case study of the two-year Asutifi subnational project, which aimed to improve the governance of mining revenues in a tiny district in central Ghana.
This RWI study explores how Indonesia's Blora and Bojonegoro districts are turning local resource revenues into sustainable development.
This subnational study explores RWI's work in Nigeria's Bayelsa State to increase local transparency and accountability of oil revenues.
In 2008, RWI designed a project to address the enormous governance challenges facing regional and local governments in Peru.