Peru: Network of NGOs Releases Report on Extractives Data, Sub-National Capacity

In its newest Extractive Industries Monitoring Report (Vigilancia de las Industrias Extractivas), Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana compiles and analyzes all 2007 data from Peru relating to mineral, oil and gas production, taxes, royalties and other rent payments.

The report also examines rent distribution between central and sub-national governments, and the ways that states are using these resources.

This is the seventh extractive industries report from Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana (GPC), a network of Peruvian NGOs focused on decentralization, with an emphasis on civil society participation, technical assistance and sub-national capacity development. The latest report addreses the most current policy issues and debates in the extractives sector, including the capacity of sub-national governments to effectively use resource revenues and the benefits and liabilities of windfall profit taxes, voluntary donations and related fiscal tools.

GPC's Sistema Vigila Peru monitors the performance of 10 Regional Governments on expenditures, policies, participation, transparency, health and education. It also monitors the generation, distribution and use of the fiscal resources created by the extractive industries.

Revenue Watch helps to fund GPC's project to monitor the generation and distribution of extractives revenues, and provides related direct and indirect technical assistance to governments and citizens in Peru.

Download and read the full report: Vigilancia de las Industrias Extractivas, No. 7 (2MB, en Español) | Surveillance of Extractive Industries, No. 7 (2MB, English)

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