Publications

Beneath the Surface: The Case for Oversight of Extractive Industry Suppliers

Report

22 September 2020

Sustainable Drive, Sustainable Supply: Priorities to Improve the Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain

Report

23 July 2020

NRGI Impact: Reaching Wider Populations with Global Online Courses

12 November 2018

Both the MOOC and Petronia have become key tools for building a broader and more foundational understanding of issues that are critical to good natural resource governance.

Leveraging Beneficial Ownership Information in the Extractive Sector

Briefing

22 October 2018

Erica Westenberg

Regulatory and public pressure to increase transparency about the real people who own, control, or gain substantial economic benefits from companies—also known as beneficial owners—is growing globally.

Closing the Gap: Strengthening the Development and Implementation of Natural Resource Commitments in the Open Government Partnership

13 November 2017

A new report by the Openness in Natural Resource Working Group indicates that countries make more natural resource commitments compared to other sectors like health or education.

Past the Tipping Point? Contract Disclosure within EITI

2 March 2017

Robert Pitman, Don Hubert

Four years after the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) began encouraging contract disclosure through its standard, this report assesses the extent to which governments of resource-rich countries have taken up the recommendation.

Parliamentary Briefing: Contract Disclosure

11 March 2015

Extractive contracts are principal documents between a government and a company that details the terms and conditions under which a resource is exploited.

State Participation in Oil, Gas and Mining

11 March 2015

State participation in oil, gas and mining is often exercised through state-owned enterprises (SOEs), whereby governments take a direct ownership stake in oil, mineral or gas ventures, either as the sole commercial entity or in partnership with private companies.

Parliamentary Briefing: Revenue Management

11 March 2015

Oil, gas and mineral resources are distinctly different from other sources of government income. Only through good macroeconomic policy and public financial management can a country take full advantage of natural resources.

Parliamentary Resource Governance Briefings

11 March 2015

Parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in reviewing legislation on oil, gas and minerals, and in overseeing the government’s management of these extractive sectors. In support of this unique mandate, NRGI has developed five parliamentary briefings that constitute an approach to parliamentary capacity building on extractives.

Parliamentary Briefing: EITI

11 March 2015

The Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) seeks to improve transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sectors. In countries participating in EITI, oil, gas and mining companies must publish what they pay to governments, and governments must publish what they receive.