Women are still highly underrepresented in politics worldwide. However, over the last decades, many African countries have adopted different legal measures aimed to ensure a better gender balance in legislatures. Rwanda, for example, has the highest percentage of women in parliament in the world.
Equipped with the new data, a growing community of civil society activists has studied various techniques to monitor and hold companies and governments accountable for payments received. Our colleagues at NRGI have used payments data to identify Nigeria oil management issues or gold mines’ state dividends receipts in Ghana.
La Guinée célèbre aujourd’hui soixante années d’indépendance, depuis le fameux « non » du leader indépendantiste Ahmed Sékou Touré au referendum parrainé par le gouvernement du Général De Gaulle sur l’union avec la France.
NRGI hosted a discussion on the subject of enforcing fiscal discipline in Mongolia. A consultant for NRGI presented the findings of her research, entitled “Can the proposed fiscal council help improve fiscal discipline in Mongolia?” to a diverse audience of government officials, researchers, private sector executives and citizens.
Last year, Tunisian journalist and filmmaker Adel Zarrouk produced an Arabic-language documentary with NRGI funding addressing the April 2017 al Kamour movement, a wave of protests and sit-ins in the Tataouine region demanding employment and subnational development. That film and an interview with Zarrouk is now available online.
Les révélations des « Panama Papers » en 2016 et les enquêtes qui ont suivi ont suscité un intérêt grandissant du public à propos des personnes physiques qui se trouvent en dernier ressort derrière les entreprises, autrement
I WATCH, a youth-led nonprofit founded following the Tunisian revolution in 2011, gathers transparency and accountability activists who fight corruption.
In 2017, after a decade of working with journalists, NRGI crafted a new strategy for media programming, leveraging lessons from its development programs and considering broader learning and trends in the field.