Recent Articles

Tensions were high at RWI's Beirut workshop as Iraqi lawmakers debated the role oil will play in their country's future.

Blog ~ 9:50, 18 November 2011
Meet both classes from the 2011 pilot program training journalists from Ghana and Uganda, two nations facing an array of challenges after recent major oil discoveries.
News Article ~ 17 November 2011

Iraqi parliamentarians gathered in Beirut for a three-day workshop on lawmakers' roles and responsibilities in oil and gas oversight.

Blog ~ 9:33, 17 November 2011

This September, amid heated debate, RWI and AFIEGO held two workshops on Uganda's new oil bill.

Blog ~ 7:57, 15 November 2011

Nearly 70 legislators and civil society members gather for RWI's parliamentary forum in Ghana.

Blog ~ 8:54, 9 November 2011

Revenue Watch welcomed its first francophone Africa "summer school" class in Yaounde, Cameroon, this September.

Blog ~ 8:27, 2 November 2011
Revenue Watch convenes 70 members of parliament, activists and journalists to share knowledge on oil and mineral management.
News Article ~ 28 October 2011

Government officials and advocates from Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan met in October to discuss mining revenue management.

Blog ~ 8:23, 20 October 2011

In September, RWI held a workshop on oil revenue management in Beirut, Lebanon.

Blog ~ 8:14, 20 September 2011
Working with a local partner, Siti Nur Chanifah campaigns for better uses of oil revenues.
News Article ~ 4 August 2011
RWI’s Juan Carlos Quiroz offers lessons from the Revenue Watch Index.
News Article ~ 8 July 2011
Iraqi civil society members concluded an RWI capacity building workshop with the decision to form a coalition of NGOs working for oil, gas and mining transparency.
News Article ~ 10 February 2011
Over the past three years, Revenue Watch has carried out parliamentary capacity building pilot projects in Ghana, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Uganda. These projects sought to help national parliaments improve their oversight of the oil, gas and mining sectors and to form more effective alliances with civil society and the media. Keith Myers acted as lead trainer in a number of Revenue Watch oil governance and contracts workshops. In this article, he offers his own reflections on the opportunities and challenges associated with parliamentary capacity building in Africa.
News Article ~ 4 February 2011
The Revenue Watch Institute seeks legal and economic consultants for a variety of short- and medium-term assignments.
News Article ~ 3 February 2011
This December, Revenue Watch co-hosted a training session on mining sector governance for parliamentarians and leading civil society representatives in Harare, Zimbabwe. After years of internal strife, humanitarian crises and hyperinflation, Zimbabwe's economy is fragile and optimistic forecasts about mineral revenues are tempered by a need for reform in the mining sector. RWI invited Catherine Anderson, a public sector governance specialist and a facilitator for this training, to share her impressions of Zimbabwe and the country's challenges as it seeks to revive and reform its mining sector.
News Article ~ 26 January 2011

Applications are now open for a two-week summer course, "Developing Local Economies through Inclusive Policies and Planning," to be held at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Led by Revenue Watch partner the Local Government Initiative, the course will equip policy-makers and practitioners with strategies for improving sub-national economies. Learn more and apply ... (CEU)

News Article ~ 1 December 2010
In late October, Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative coalitions from the Caucasus and Central Asia held their sixth annual meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Though plans for strong regional collaboration have fallen through in the past, this year, RWI and local partners introduced a new framework for inter-country cooperation and future shared campaigns.
News Article ~ 22 November 2010
Since the country's first oil discovery was made last year, Sierra Leonians have been caught between their hopes—for fortune-changing oil discoveries—and their fears—of a replay of the country's unhappy experiences in the mining sector, when immense mineral wealth fueled civil war. Energy analyst and RWI advisor Keith Myers, who helped lead an RWI capacity building workshop this October, reflects on the country's oil prospects.
News Article ~ 16 November 2010
On November 5, international energy experts, civil society activists and members of the Ukrainian government met in Kiev for a conference on oil and gas transparency co-hosted by Revenue Watch, and for discussions on Ukraine's plans to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
News Article ~ 5 November 2010
A U.S. audit that found the U.S. Department of Defense unable to account properly for 96 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi funds from the sale of Iraq's oil underscores the need for Iraq's new government to adopt strong, transparent controls on oil revenues and spending if the country's oil industry is to fuel economic development rather than conflict.
Press Release ~ 5 August 2010

The second Summer School on the Governance of Oil, Gas and Mining Revenues got underway July 14 in Accra and continued through July 23. The training was hosted at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and was co-sponsored by the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) and the German Technical Corporation (GTZ).

News Article ~ 20 July 2010
During an intensive "summer school" training session of the Revenue Watch-supported Africa Regional Extractive Industry Knowledge Hub (REIKH), a traditional leader in Ghana's Brong Ahafo region called on the country's government to cancel its mining agreement with Newmont Ghana Limited and take the contract under a second review.
News Article ~ 20 July 2010
It has been more than a year since Ghanaian President John Atta Mills committed his government to disclosing all existing and future contracts with oil, gas and mining companies. To date, his promise remains unfulfilled. Firm decisions on transparency are increasingly urgent in Ghana, as lawmakers have released proposals for a new petroleum law and there is an increasing national frenzy over oil. In response, this week RWI convened a public conversation in Accra focused exclusively on transparency in oil and mining contracts.
News Article ~ 24 June 2010