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A network of organizations from seven countries will use the site as a hub for regional news and online learning.
After four years of work with legislators on managing oil and minerals, RWI is pleased to announce our new parliamentary strengthening toolkit.
Activists and international organizations are pushing back against the oil lobby's attempts to weaken rules for company transparency.
As Senegal faces protests over its upcoming elections, the government announced plans to implement the transparency initiative.
In December RWI helped organize a Bridging Session linking natural resource transparency experts with tech experts.
Multinational companies are lobbying fiercely to stop a proposed EU company payment disclosure law. Sign the ONE Campaign petition to support strong transparency regulations.
RWI's Emmanuel Kuyole explains the importance of natural resource transparency at a a Brussels meeting on EU-Africa partnership.
The World Bank's Kai Kaiser discusses a new report that considers resource rich nations through a "political economy" lens.
A new investigative article considers the environmental risks of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Guinea.
To gain the benefits promised in President Obama’s energy plan, the public needs more information from oil and mining companies.
Nigeria's removal of longstanding fuel subsidies sparked the largest protest in Nigeria’s history and new debates over managing oil wealth.
Blogger Elisabeth Rosenthal asks why information disclosure sometimes yields no action, but becomes an end in itself.
RWI's Alex Gillies appears on African television to discuss the Petroleum Industry Bill in Nigeria and prospects for oil sector reform amid the fuel subsidy controversy.
As citizens, unions and leaders clash over the removal of fuel subsidies, RWI says the crisis is a pivotal opportunity for oil sector reforms.
In a chapter in the newly-published Fuelling the World – Failing the Region?, Dauda Garuba discusses EITI in Africa's Gulf of Guinea.
In Sierra Leone, mining companies are using low tax rates and off-shore intermediaries to shift profits out of the country.
Keith Myers digs deep into the politics that have hindered the passage of Iraq's oil and gas law for more than four years.
On the anniversary of the UN Convention against Corruption, advocates call for oil, gas and mining transparency.
Discussions on how technology can further transparency goals raise "non-tech" questions about political power.
In its new 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, Transparency International makes a direct link between global corruption and increasing public unrest.