Parliamentary Oversight of Mineral Revenues

As part of our continuing work to strengthen the capacity of parliaments in sub-Saharan Africa to oversee natural resource management, Revenue Watch has created a short guide with some basic information for parliamentarians regarding mineral resources and the revenues they generate.

The guide is still in development, but is available here for download in draft form only. The guide offers a set of questions that members of parliaments might need to ask in order to ensure that the country receives maximum revenues for the minerals extracted and that these are used in ways that will most benefit the country and its people.

The guide is divided into two parts:

Part A: Setting the strategic framework
This involves setting the development vision for the country, clarifying the role of the minerals sector within this and establishing the legal framework to enact it.

Part B: Overseeing each key stage in the minerals "value chain."
Turning mineral resources in the ground into improved well-being for citizens takes a series of steps that together can be termed the "value chain." Maximizing benefit requires that different questions are raised at each stage in chain.

Please use the links to the right to download the draft guide as a PDF document in standard letter format or as a booklet suitable for folding.

LEARN MORE AND CONTACT RWI

For any further information on issues relating to this guide and the management of revenues from the extraction of minerals, please explore our web site or contact:

Matteo Pellegrini, Programme Officer, Training and Capacity Building mpellegrini@revenuewatch.org

Emmanuel Kuyole, Regional Coordinator, Africa
ekuyole@yahoo.com

Vanessa Herringshaw, Director, Training and Capacity Building
vherringshaw@revenuewatch.org

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