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Political Parties and Natural Resource Governance (PDF 4 MB)
Ghana Case Study (PDF 3.2 MB)
Israel Case Study (PDF 1.97 MB)
Malaysia Case Study (PDF 2.93 MB)
Norway Case Study (PDF 4.25 MB)
Peru Case Study (PDF 4.22 MB)
South Africa Case Study (PDF 2.09 MB)
Worksheet G. I. Strategy, Legal Framework and Institutions (PDF 174.76 KB)
Worksheet G. II. Transparency and Accountability (PDF 187.19 KB)
Worksheet G. III. Exploration, Licencing and Monitoring Operations (PDF 191.9 KB)
Worksheet G. IV. Taxation and Other Company Payments (PDF 199.94 KB)
Worksheet G. V. Local Impacts (PDF 191.73 KB)
Worksheet G. VI. State-owned Enterprises (PDF 193.47 KB)
Worksheet G. VII. Revenue Management (PDF 191.32 KB)
Worksheet G. VIII. Public Spending (PDF 189.81 KB)
Worksheet G. IX. Private Sector Development (PDF 186.12 KB)
Topics
Beneficial ownership, Civic space, Contract transparency and monitoring, Corruption, Economic diversification, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Non-fiscal costs and benefits, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises, Tax policy and revenue collection
Countries
Chile, Ghana, Malaysia, Norway, Peru, South Africa
Stakeholders
Parliaments and political parties
Precepts
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 What are Natural Resource Charter precepts?
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Resource wealth brings a unique set of challenges often known as the “resource curse”—challenges political parties with informed and comprehensive policy positions are well positioned to help address.

Political parties have an important role to play in ensuring that these resources are managed transparently, accountably and in the long-term best interest of their countries.

According to research by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Natural Resource Governance Institute, where there is free and equal access to political power, there are stronger laws, institutions and practices in place to help realize the full value of resource extraction and to manage resulting revenues.

The purposes of this guide are to examine the role that parties have and can play in resource governance, and to assist political parties looking to develop strong policy positions across a wide range of political and technical topics. The report builds on the lessons from a 2015-2016 project in Ghana on the development of resource policy positions for political parties, and is informed by six country case studies as well as a broad body of good practice in party engagement and resource governance.

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