Revenue Watch is headquartered in New York, with regional teams in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa and the UK. RWI seeks a Senior Associate for its Asia Pacific office, based in Jakarta. The Senior Associate will work in close collaboration with the Asia Pacific team, which includes a Regional Associate, Project Manager, Project Assistant and Finance Assistant.
The Asia Pacific Regional Coordinator (RC) is responsible for designing and implementing a regional strategy that capitalizes on new openings in countries like Myanmar, builds on momentum for reform in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Timor Leste, and targets strategic players like China. Liaising with heads of state, intellectual leaders, and change makers, the RC ensure Revenue Watch stays on the cutting edge of reform efforts.
On May 16, the Revenue Watch Asia Pacific team launched the 2013 Resource Governance Index: Oil, Gas and Minerals for the Public Good in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The ASPAC Knowledge Hub activities kicked off on May 6-7, 2013, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with the goal of improving the quality of governance in the extractive sector and to promote more equitable benefits for the citizens of the region.
A November workshop in Jakarta aimed to increase civil society participation in ASEAN by giving civil society groups the ability to develop advocacy strategies toward ASEAN in their home countries.
More and more, local, regional and provincial governments are directly dealing with oil, gas and mining issues, and are facing challenges managing and governing those resources for their regions’ well-being.
Under the IKAT-US framework, the role of Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC) is to document and share the Indonesian experience that led up to becoming an EITI candidate country in the hopes that it will contribute to effective national advocacy in other Southeast Asian countries.
So far, the government of Cambodia has remained unreceptive to joining the transparency initiative.
Myanmar’s dynamic civil society is working overtime to educate society and build networks with an eye toward making sure reforms take root and achieve their potential.
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.
RWI's Oil and Gas Transparency Mechanism ensured all groups had access to the same information about Blora and Bojonegoro's oil projects.
RWI gathered oil company representatives, government officials and local civil society organizations for a workshop to foster communication between the groups.
This video explains how RWI and local groups helped the governments and communities of Blora and Bojonegoro the ability to wisely spend and manage newly earned oil revenue.
How two districts in Indonesian are turning substantial resource revenues into sustainable development.
Management of mineral and oil wealth by local authorities in Indonesia was the subject of a two-day seminar in Jakarta.
More than 70 representatives from local and national government, civil society and media gathered to discuss the challenges of district-level oil, mining and gas governance.
Over 100 civil society members met at the end of the OGP meeting to discuss strengthening the partnership both in-country and internationally.
RWI and local partners held a workshop to discuss inputs to three proposed petroleum bills.
Community environmental concerns in the U.S. and Peru have slowed or stopped large-scale projects this year.
The EITI has just released an amended version of its new 2011 rules, now available for download.
This September, amid heated debate, RWI and AFIEGO held two workshops on Uganda's new oil bill.
Revenue Watch cordially invites you to the release of Enforcing the Rules, a new study of monitoring in the mining industries, on 9 November.
This month, RWI welcomed an important new actor in Ghanaian oil governance: the Public Interest and Accountability Committee.
RWI demonstrates how collecting and sharing natural resource information can increase revenues and improve management.