This report provides practical guidance to state and regional officials and oversight actors in Myanmar to avoid potential pitfalls and ensure that decentralization delivers real benefits to local communities and miners. 

Mainstreaming—or the move toward meeting EITI requirements through routine and publicly available company and government reporting, rather than standalone EITI reports—has the potential to significantly improve the timeliness, contextualization and quality of disclosed data.

Social media have become important channels for Nigerians to simply and quickly exchange information about the governance of the country’s critically important oil sector.

The authors of this briefing present the challenges the Myanmar government has faced and set out considerations for designing an effective tax regime for the mining sector. 

Keterbukaan kontrak dan izin industri ekstraktif merupakan norma global yang sedang berkembang pesat.

This brief explains why Indonesia should proactively publish critical mining contracts and licenses, and suggests a path for making publication a reality.

NRGI experts provided support to Congolese civil society groups to revise the country’s mining code which has resulted in a fresh flow of revenues to provinces and local communities. 

NRGI's work impacts stakeholders in many different places at and many levels, ranging from communities to international institutions. Learn more about these impacts.

The authors of this paper examine Tunisia’s upstream petroleum fiscal regime, considering the government’s policy priority of reversing a decade-long decline in reserves and production. They make recommendations for creating a vibrant petroleum industry to support the local economy, reducing the country’s increasing dependence on imports, attracting investment and boosting exploration activity.