RWI is offering journalists in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda a chance to learn more about the extractive industries in a six-month program on covering oil, gas and mineral sectors.
Last week, Khazar University’s Eurasia Knowledge Hub held its routine training session entitled “Hydrocarbon and minerals: From extraction to sustainable development” for about 20 members of civil society, media representatives, representatives of government agencies, and universities.
RWI expresses concern over the detention of Ilgar Mammadov, a member of its advisory board.
Tanzania is the latest country to benefit from RWI's media training program.
On 5 December, 16 Guinean journalists took a field trip to the country’s largest bauxite mine.
Five of the winners of ACME/RWI's prizes for best reporting on oil, gas and mining are alumni of our media training program.
Fifteen Guinean journalists embarked upon a 10-day training program on understanding and reporting on the oil and mining industries.
Revenue Watch and the Open Society Institute of West Africa announce a training program for Guinean journalists who wish to build their knowledge and skills on the extractives sector.
Caspian countries have some of the most authoritarian and least diversified economies.
RWI found there to be little or no publicly available data on transit tariffs and state transit revenues in Bulgaria, Georgia, Ukraine and Turkey.
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.
The EITI Coalition in Azerbaijan released a statement expressing worry over "stagnation" of EITI implementation in the country.
Revenue Watch's media training program enables journalists to hold government and companies more accountable.
Some companies in oil-rich Azerbaijan are resisting the call for more openness in EITI reporting.
Eighteen trainees from across Eurasia attended RWI's regional knowledge hub course about the extractive industry value chain.
The U.S. Secretary of State met with a group of civil society leaders during her one-day trip to Azerbaijan.
Ghanaian and Ugandan journalists explored issues from petroleum science to oil legislation and traveled onsite to Uganda's oil development region.
The story of a village near a gold mine in Azerbaijan shows how secrecy can undermine the public trust and the public good.
Participants from 11 countries learned about managing oil windfalls and shielding economies from price volatility.
When Norwegian People's Aid looked for a media organization to support its South Sudan program, RWI's Ugandan partner ACME was a natural choice.
RWI's Galib Efendiev talks about RWI's work to promote transit revenue transparency as an integral part of EITI.
Groups from Cameroon and Ghana observed industry activities firsthand and traded experiences with policy and public dialogue.
Two alumni of RWI's media training program received top awards in a Ugandan contest for best reporting on oil and mining issues.
