NRGI has created a series of short, illustrated overviews of key topics in NRGI's portfolio of work. Together they serve as a robust introduction for the lay reader to fundamental issues and concepts in resource governance. Most contain helpful figures and infographics, and each primer has a standard format: key messages, key concepts and case examples, and a final set of practitioner-orientated questions to ask. Each topic is explicitly linked to the relevant precepts of the Natural Resource Charter.

The primers can be downloaded and read individually, or as one PDF document.

NRGI Primers

1. The Resource Curse
2. The Natural Resource Charter Decision Chain
3. The Oil and Gas Industry
4. The Mining Industry
5. Legal Framework
6. Measurement and Assessment of Natural Resource Governance
7. Transparency Mechanisms and Movements
8. Contract Transparency
9. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
10. Publish What You Pay
11. Granting Rights to Natural Resources
12. Fiscal Regime Design
13. Transfer Pricing
14. State Participation and State-Owned Enterprises
15. Commodity Trading
16. Revenue Management and Distribution
17. Fiscal Rules and Natural Resource Funds
18. Subnational Revenue Distribution
19. Subnational Revenue Management
20. Local Content
21. Extractives-Linked Infrastructure