EXHIBITION: Fifty Years of Oil and Struggle in the Niger Delta
Revenue Watch Institute is pleased to sponsor an exhibition by photographer Ed Kashi at London's HOST Gallery. On display from March 8 through April 3, the exhibit Curse of the Black Gold vividly documents the human and political consequences of a half-century of oil exploration in a region that holds Africa's largest oil reserves. Ed Kashi and RWI Nigeria coordinator Dauda Garuba also joined other experts on March 11 for a panel discussion at the London School of Economics. Read more ...Transparency Initiative Faces Crucial Test at Deadline
As 22 countries in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative faced a March 9 deadline for completing their national validation processes—the EITI's "quality assurance" mechanism—RWI called for clear and consistent standards in the Initiative's response to the 20 countries whose validation work remains incomplete. "This is the first such deadline in the EITI's history," said RWI Chairman Anthony Richter. "Country performance and the EITI's forthcoming response will set precedents for the enforcement of transparency standards both within and beyond the Initiative." Read more ...RWI NEWSLETTER: February 2010
Find out about RWI's new Resource Center, the Publish What You Pay francophone meeting in Cote d'Ivoire, recent workshops on Tanzania's mining laws, EITI's expansion to include Iraq and Afghanistan, RWI's exploratory mission to China and Mongolia, a new era of tax transparency foretold at the OECD Global Forum meeting, the campaign to foster transparency in international financial systems, progress on a new Knowledge Hub in Latin America, and more. Read more ...| Français | EspañolReforming the Mining Sector in Tanzania
Tanzania's once-promising mineral policy reforms are no longer new, and many of their objectives remain unattained. Unfortunately, the goal of increasing the sector's contribution to national growth and poverty reduction has proven to be far-fetched. New reforms are underway, but the question remains, what went wrong? This October, Revenue Watch hosted a training workshop in Dar-Es-Salaam to help Tanzanian legislators consider these questions and learn more about the complex challenges of managing the nation's mineral wealth. Read more ...Announcing the New Revenue Watch Resource Center!
RWI is excited to announce the launch of its online Resource Center, an interactive database of hundreds of research, training and policy documents on the management of natural resource wealth. Now civil society members, researchers and policy-makers who do not want to "reinvent the wheel" can access the lessons and wisdom from across the global transparency movement in one location. Read more and visit the Resource Center ...
JOBS
Economic Analyst
Revenue Watch Institute seeks an Economic Analyst. Candidates encouraged to apply immediately.
Revenue Watch Institute seeks an Economic Analyst. Candidates encouraged to apply immediately.
Administrative Associate
Revenue Watch Institute seeks an Administrative Associate. Candidates encouraged to apply immediately.
Revenue Watch Institute seeks an Administrative Associate. Candidates encouraged to apply immediately.
Middle East/North Africa Regional Coordinator
Revenue Watch Institute seeks a Middle East/North Africa Regional Coordinator.
Revenue Watch Institute seeks a Middle East/North Africa Regional Coordinator.
Senior Analyst—IBP
Cross-posted listing: The International Budget Partnership seeks a Senior Analyst for its Open Budget Initiative.
Cross-posted listing: The International Budget Partnership seeks a Senior Analyst for its Open Budget Initiative.
COUNTRIES
Angola
With large deposits of oil and diamonds, as well as natural gas reserves, Angola is among Africa's most resource-rich countries. It produced 1.7 million barrels of oil per day in 2007, and also generates roughly 10 million carats of diamonds and 26.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas each year. Angola's proven reserves include eight billion barrels of oil and 440 million carats of diamonds.
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With large deposits of oil and diamonds, as well as natural gas reserves, Angola is among Africa's most resource-rich countries. It produced 1.7 million barrels of oil per day in 2007, and also generates roughly 10 million carats of diamonds and 26.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas each year. Angola's proven reserves include eight billion barrels of oil and 440 million carats of diamonds.
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Iraq
Iraq, a nation of 25 million people, holds the second largest oil reserves in the world, estimated to exceed 300 billion barrels. While Iraq enjoyed a period of relative prosperity and modernization in the 1950s and 1960s, its more recent history of pervasive violence, mismanagement and abuse has denied the people of Iraq any lasting benefits from this wealth.
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PUBLICATIONS
Contracts Confidential: Ending Secret Deals in the Extractive IndustriesContract transparency is sorely needed to improve the management of natural resource wealth. In a new report from RWI, authors Peter Rosenblum and Susan Maples delve into government and private sector objections to contract disclosure and make conclusions about what information may legitimately and reasonably be kept confidential, and how civil society institutions can better confront the challenge of secret deals.
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Drilling Down: The Civil Society Guide to Extractive Industry Revenues and the EITIThis milestone guide provides step-by-step explanations of each phase of EITI implementation and a comprehensive review of extractive industries accounting. Using real-world examples from multiple countries, it illustrates the fundamental issues behind the EITI for readers new to the challenges of extractive revenue management. Drilling Down is now available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
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