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So far, the government of Cambodia has remained unreceptive to joining the transparency initiative.

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.

Kaufmann, a renowned expert on governance, brings to his new role deep practical experience helping countries plan and deliver reforms.

Background and analysis on the new SEC reporting rules for oil and mining companies making payments to governments.

Two years after the passage of U.S. financial reforms, regulators will finally issue new rules for transparency of oil, gas and mining payments.

Milestones and debates in the development of new oil and mining disclosure rules, from the U.S. House of Representatives to the widening global movement.

Management of mineral and oil wealth by local authorities in Indonesia was the subject of a two-day seminar in Jakarta.

As the second anniversary of the Dodd-Frank reform act arrives, the SEC has finally set a vote date for oil and mining disclosure requirements.

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.

Nearly 60 U.S. lawmakers joined in a letter calling on the SEC to issue the final oil and mining reporting rules passed in the Dodd-Frank Act.

Suu Kyi praised the EITI secretariat's visit as a promising step towards democratic reform.

The organization is suing regulators over the one year delay issuing oil and mining disclosure rules passed in the Dodd-Frank Act.

Programmers and advocates shared gripes and wishes for better collaboration in a talk led by RWI and Harvard University.

Over 100 civil society members met at the end of the OGP meeting to discuss strengthening the partnership both in-country and internationally.

At the OGP meeting in Brasilia, governments announced National Action Plans, including many concrete resource governance reforms.

In March, RWI held its first IKAT-U.S. workshop, linking Southeast Asian CSOs focused on the oil and mining industries.

Leaders at the OGP meeting, including RWI's President Karin Lissakers, describe the meaning of open government.

Revenue Watch led an OGP summit panel on practical ways to incorporate oil and mining transparency into country commitments.

RWI and local partners held a workshop to discuss inputs to three proposed petroleum bills.

The IMF should withhold a scheduled loan disbursement until Angolan authorities justify a $32 billion discrepancy in public accounts.

With a new report breaking down its tax payments for 2011, Rio Tinto took a commendable step toward fuller disclosure.