Announcing the New Revenue Watch Resource Center!
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The Revenue Watch Institute is excited to announce the formal launch of its online Resource Center, a tool for knowledge-sharing and transparency advocacy.
The Resource Center, available at http://resources.revenuewatch.org, gives activists, civil society members, government officials, legislators, journalists and students access to hundreds of documents on the management of natural resource wealth. It provides an interactive database of research, training and policy documents, based on a wide range of international expertise, analysis and recommended practices.
RWI Deputy Director Suneeta Kaimal described how the Resource Center compiles and organizes existing and emerging knowledge. "Revenue Watch sits at the center of a diverse network of scholars, experts and practitioners," said Kaimal, "and a core part of our mission is to help that network share knowledge and collaborate to advance the transparency and accountability agenda."
For civil society members, researchers and policy-makers who do not want to "reinvent the wheel," the Resource Center provides a centralized location for lessons and wisdom on responsible revenue management, maximization of natural resource wealth, and transparent and accountable governance.
The growing array of Resource Center materials includes:
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RESEARCH: country-specific publications, regional and global studies from academics, international financial institutions and civil society groups | |
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TRAINING: videos, slideshows presentation materials from leading academics, and a range of downloadable training tools | |
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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS: government laws, policies, statements, EITI documents and other official publications from sub-national, federal and international authorities | |
| BACKGROUNDERS: overviews and brief introductions from RWI on many of the key issues facing citizens, investors, policy-makers and advocates |
The Resource Center is a growing repository of material from Revenue Watch, its partners and all the institutions, organizations and individuals who contribute daily to our body of knowledge. We need your help to make this new site the most effective tool it can be.
Please look through the Resource Center, share materials with your colleagues, share your feedback with us and send us your own suggestions for materials and topic areas that should be added or developed further.
Contact us any time at resourcecenter@revenuewatch.org.
To get started, please visit http://resources.revenuewatch.org, or click on Resource Center under "Our Work" at the top of the Revenue Watch web site.
U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits - The New York Times
Australia Gas Deal Renews Tension - Financial Times
Charged With Fraud, Nigeria's Ruling Party Leader Resigns - Reuters
Western Senators Propose Ban on Pacific Drilling - The New York Times
To Limit Corruption around Mining in Africa, Follow the Money - The Globe and Mail
Court Backs Oil Project - The New York Times
Transparency Increases, But There Is Still a Long Way to Go - The Phnom Penh Post
IMF Develops Project to Help Africa Deal with Illicit Trade - African Manager
Three-day Conference on Africa's Natural Resources Starts in Tanzania - Standard Times Press
After Oil Rig Blast, BP Refused to Share Underwater Spill Footage - ABC News
Finger-Pointing, but Few Answers at Hearings on Drilling - The New York Times
Complaints Over U.N. Prize Sponsored by Equatorial Guinea's Obiang - Reuters
Guide: Community-Company Grievance Resolution for Australian Mining Industry - Oxfam Australia (pdf)
Cote D'Ivoire: President for Life, and Then Some - The New York Times
In Midst of Massive Spill, Oil Industry Fighting Transparency and Accountability - Oxfam America
Leaked Oil Contracts in DRC Threaten Resource Wars and $10 Billion Rip-Off by British Company - Carbon Web
Contracts Confidential: Ending Secret Deals in the Extractive Industries
Contract 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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NEW TRANSLATION: Revenue Redistribution at the Local Level
Many resource-rich countries are attempting to compensate their producing regions through shares of resource revenues to be spent at the local level. In "Extractive Industries Revenues Distribution at the Sub-National Level," development economics consultant Matteo Morgandi presents a comparative analysis of international legislation for distribution of extractive revenues from across all levels of government. Prepared at the request of the Peruvian National Congress, the report studies the legislative practices of seven resource-rich countries to identify potential and address challenges. Please note that this report is now also available in Vietnamese.
Learn more ...