Resource Center

A tool for knowledge-sharing and transparency advocacy, the Resource Center gives activists, civil society members, government officials, legislators, journalists and students access to hundreds of documents on the management of natural resource wealth.

Use the search box to access this interactive database of research, training and policy documents from resource-rich countries around the world.

Ghana

This guide provides some basic information for parliamentarians exercising oversight of the emerging oil and gas sector in Ghana to ensure that good governance prevails in the sector.

Guinea

To guide a historic planned review of its mining contracts, the government of Guinea set out Terms of Reference desigend to foster good governance, fair treatment of mining companies and increased investor confidence.

Open Government Partnership

A PowerPoint document giving an overview of the multilateral Open Government Partnership and highlighting governments' opportunities related to oil, gas and mining.

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is rich in minerals which could contribute significantly to the development of the country. This report clearly illustrates that this is not sufficiently the case due to limited tax and royalty contributions from mining companies.

Resource Center

Until a legal framework is in place, signing up for exploration licences in Iraq and Kurdistan remains a huge political risk.