L'exploitation minière et pétrolière représente un enjeu stratégique, mais elle est trop souvent source de désastres sociaux et environnementaux. Mieux encadrée, mieux contrôlée, elle peut au contraire devenir une source de prospérité pour les populations d’un pays. A condition de mettre en place une bonne méthodologie de suivi des engagements pris par l’Etat et les entreprises extractives : c’est l’objet de la présente vidéo.

This is the second in a series of posts on the future of natural resource governance originally published by the Brookings Institution that builds upon a dialogue co-hosted by the Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption project, the Transparency and Accountability Initiative and NRGI. 

Our most-read blog posts of 2020 focused on the impatcs of the coronavirus pandemic on natural resource governance - from how governments in mineral-dependent countries can respond to the pandemic, to the link between fallig oil prices and increased corruption. Read them all here.

The oil and mining transparency rule adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will fail to achieve the level of payment disclosure necessary to deter corruption in the natural resource sector.

En medio de la agitación política en el Perú, las leyes sobre la gobernanza de los recursos naturales han sido puestas en peligro con el fin de atraer inversiones para la reactivación económica. El crecimiento en la inversión no debería producirse a costa del debilitamiento de la gobernanza.

 

On International Anti-Corruption Day, the EITI, NRGI and TI Accountable Mining are partnering to present new tools and guidance to combat extractive sector corruption.

The first in a series of posts on the future of natural resource governance (NRG) originally published by the Brookings Institution that builds upon a dialogue co-hosted by the Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption project, the Transparency and Accountability Initiative and NRGI. 

Since 2019, significant progress has been made on making extractive sector contracts public. But it's too early to declare “mission accomplished.”

Amid political turmoil in Peru, laws around natural resource governance are being put in jeopardy in the name of attracting investment. However, growth in investment should come at the cost of weakened governance in the sector.