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When Tanzania released its mining bill, transparency advocates worked around the clock to analyze it and engage MPs.

Gaps in knowledge often prevent civil society and MPs from managing the mining sector for the greatest public benefit.

Parliamentarians in Tanzania learned to collaborate with civil society to improve mining governance.

Lawmakers from Uganda, Sierra Leone and Tanzania face the serious responsibility of ensuring that resource wealth can translate into public benefit.

After four years of work with legislators on managing oil and minerals, RWI is pleased to announce our new toolkit to help strengthen parliaments.

After years of operating under a decades-old oil law, Uganda's government formally presented its petroleum governance bill.

RWI's Emmanuel Kuyole explains the importance of natural resource transparency at a Brussels meeting on EU-Africa partnership.

RWI congratulated the government of Guinea for creating a contract review plan that can help enhance the rule of law and accelerate economic development.

In a chapter in the newly-published Fuelling the World – Failing the Region?, Dauda Garuba discusses EITI in Africa's Gulf of Guinea.

RWI seeks a Parliamentary Capacity Development Program Officer to be based in London.

Keith Myers digs deep into the politics that have hindered the passage of Iraq's oil and gas law for more than four years.

A new paper contends that the "China Deal" reflects changes and continuity in the global economy.

Tensions were high at RWI's Beirut workshop as Iraqi lawmakers debated the role oil will play in their country's future.

Iraqi parliamentarians gathered in Beirut for a three-day workshop on lawmakers' roles and responsibilities in oil and gas oversight.

This September, amid heated debate, RWI and AFIEGO held two workshops on Uganda's new oil bill.

Nearly 70 legislators and civil society members gather for RWI's parliamentary forum in Ghana.

Revenue Watch welcomed its first francophone Africa "summer school" class in Yaounde, Cameroon, this September.

Revenue Watch convenes 70 members of parliament, activists and journalists to share knowledge on oil and mineral management.

Revenue Watch cordially invites you to the release of Enforcing the Rules, a new study of monitoring in the mining industries, on 9 November.


President Sirleaf's advocacy for natural resource transparency has been an essential element of Liberia's progress.
Citizens' groups in resource-rich countries have been pushing for years for the publication of contracts in which their governments award companies the right to explore for and exploit public petroleum and mineral resources.

In July, 45 African members of the media, government, trade unions and civil society came to RWI's third "summer school" in Ghana.

RWI’s Juan Carlos Quiroz offers lessons from the Revenue Watch Index.
Africa's economic ascent was the focus of the eighth annual African Economic Forum at Columbia University this March. Panelists argued that oil, gas and mining are the most important industries contributing to Africa's economic growth, and that they must improve transparency and management in order to spur development across the continent.
Earlier this month, Revenue Watch and our partners gathered parliamentary leaders and other experts from four resource rich African countries for a candid and in-depth regional dialogue on the role of legislators, civil society and media in resource development in Africa. The event took place from May 11 to May 13 at the White Sands Hotel, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where historic changes are underway as Tanzania prepares to implement a series of important changes to its mining law.