Since 2009, Revenue Watch and the Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru have held an annual workshop on oil, gas and mining issues in Latin American.
What role should the government have when a company needs to relocate an entire community to make way for a mining project?
In 2008, the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI)—in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSF-LGI)—designed a project to address the enormous governance challenges facing local governments in Peru.
Due largely to oil, Piura’s annual budget nearly tripled over the last decade, to $415 million. RWI assisted regional government officials make realistic medium-term plans for education, health and other programs with this revenue windfall.
RWI sought to help the regional government of Piura in Peru improve its ability to track revenue and improve its planning.
Development in Peru is determined by the “magic number”—an annual budget regional governments are given by the Ministry of Finance every year. Because regional governments must spend the money before the end of the year, little thought goes into planning objectives, goals, projects or budgets.
This video explains how RWI's new approach to forecasting and budgeting helped the regional government in Piura better manage its oil and mining revenues after a recession caused oil prices to drop.
Revenue Watch developed a new approach to forecasting and budgeting to help regional governments in Peru better manage the windfall of oil and mining revenues after the decentralization of the federal government.
RWI developed a new approach to forecasting and budgeting to help regional governments in Peru deal with the windfall of oil and mining revenues after the decentralization of the federal government.
Kaufmann, a renowned expert on governance, brings to his new role deep practical experience helping countries plan and deliver reforms.
The report provides a comprehensive overview of the mining and hydrocarbons industries in the Latin American region.
Advocacy leaders convened in Peru in June to seek ways of broadening the regional agenda for transparency and good governance of oil and minerals.
Petroperú, the biggest player in the Peruvian oil and gas market, has agreed to participate in EITI reporting.
Updates from RWI's regional office on local foreign investment, Petrobras and expanded mining operations in Colombia.
RWI partner GPC has launched a new online map that allows users to compare resource concessions across Peru.
Executives of oil trading firms expressed little enthusiasm for greater transparency in the sector.
The paper speculates that RWI's findings "could have significant implications for the publicity-shy commodities trading industry."
RWI releases new research revealing the importance of disclosures by national oil companies, a largely-hidden area of the global market.
RWI's research on the double-edged effects of mining revenue is featured in an article in the latest issue of Quehacer.
RWI's Latin America office has published a new Spanish-language report on trends in oil, gas and mining issues in Latin America.
With RWI support, our partner Ibase has published a new report, giving an overview of Brazil's oil, gas and mining revenues.
RWI partner Foro's new report, El Sector Extractivo en Colombia, gives an overview of the local oil, gas and mining sector.
A recent report evalutates the performance, promise and limitations of the Nigerian EITI as an anti-corruption tool.
In countries rich in oil, gas and minerals, the new opportunities that resource wealth brings too often benefit men rather than women.
Author Michael Ross joined RWI to discuss his comprehensive study of the economic and political consequences of oil wealth.