EITI has made so much progress that it is time to focus on a new and critical element.
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.
Iraq is rich with oil, but public debate around the oil and gas sector in Iraq is limited, and corruption has reached endemic proportions.
Hydraulic fracturing could lead the U.S. to energy independence. But there are other social and economic factors to consider.
The global transparency initiative will soon require project-by-project reporting of companies' payments to governments.
The international EITI board approved changes to the status of seven countries while meeting in Oslo, Norway, on February 26 and 27.
RWI President Daniel Kaufmann spoke about four “powers” that will strengthen efforts to establish transparency as an international standard.
During a Ted Talk, the U2 frontman called out corruption as one of the primary forces hindering faster progress towards zero poverty.
The U.S. took a big step towards greater revenue transparency with the first meeting of the U.S. EITI Advisory Committee.
Tanzania is the latest country to benefit from RWI's media training program.
The U.S. government announced the membership of the U.S. EITI advisory committee.
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.
The U.S. has the opportunity to become a global leader not just in energy production, but in transparency in the service of sustainable economic growth and public benefit as well.
So far, the government of Cambodia has remained unreceptive to joining the transparency initiative.
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.
The International Board of the EITI made uneven progress in its discussions on how to strengthen the EITI at its meeting in Lusaka, Zambia.
Ukraine's energy minister announced the formation of a multi-stakehold group, the fourth of five steps the country must take to be considered an EITI candidate country.
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.