The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) and the Oil for Development Program (OfD) of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2013 RWI Petrad Fellowship.
The third edition of the Francophone Africa Summer School on Governance of Extractive Industries (EI) will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from August 12-23, 2013.
The third edition of the Francophone Africa Summer School on Governance of Extractive Industries (EI) will be held at UCAC’s campus of Ekounou-Ayene from August 12-23, 2013.
Some feedback from participants of the highly technical, fast-paced Advanced Course thus far.
Day three of the Advanced Course was about different fiscal instruments available to resource-rich states.
On Day Two of the Advanced Course, students had lots of questions, and were challenged with lessons on practical modelling and fiscal regimes.
Thirty-two students from five continents gathered in Budapest for a two-week course to develop their expertise on oil, gas and mining issues.
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.
Veteran lawmakers met with brand-new parliamentarians at an RWI workshop on oversight of the oil, gas and mineral sectors.
How two districts in Indonesian are turning substantial resource revenues into sustainable development.
Crude oil sales make up 70 percent of the government’s annual revenue, so it's imperative for journalists to know how oil revenue is managed.
RWI cohosted a technical briefing for Ugandan MPs on the Public Finance Bill, which is lawmakers' best hope for establishing a strong legal framework to manage oil revenues.
This week, lawmakers from the MENA region will gather in Beirut for a three-day training on the management of oil, gas and mining revenues.
Revenue Watch and its partners are now accepting applications for this forthcoming course in approaches to policy and management for oil, gas and mining resources.
Nearly 50 members of African civil society and media toured AngloGold Ashanti’s Iduapriem gold mine in the western region of Ghana.
Management of mineral and oil wealth by local authorities in Indonesia was the subject of a two-day seminar in Jakarta.
Journalists and advocates from the DRC, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon and Burkina Faso attended a workshop to learn how to make best use of their countries' EITI reports.
Experts joined advocates and journalists in Cameroon for an exhaustive RWI training session on understanding oil and mining contracts.
Revenue Watch's media training program enables journalists to hold government and companies more accountable.
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.
RWI is pleased to announced the release of its standardized training modules on the essential components of the EITI process.
Susan al-Saad of the Iraqi parliament recounts how an RWI workshop taught her to tackle problems from a different angle.