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Fresh perspectives and insights from NRGI
Contract Transparency is an Extractive Industries Success Story—But It’s Not Over Yet
8 December 2020
Risk and Reward in Ghana’s Agyapa Gold Royalties Deal: Eight Points for Consideration
1 October 2020
Enabling Resilience in Unprecedented Times
10 August 2020

The 2021 Resource Governance Index Research Process is Underway

13 July 2020
Liz McGrath, Anna Fleming
Research for the 2021 edition of NRGI's Resource Governance Index has begun. The index measures the governance of oil, gas and mining sectors in resource-producing countries and provides freely available public data to help inform evidence-based decision-making.

The Proof is in the Politics: Fossil Fuel Interests and Domestic Energy Transitions

21 May 2020
Aaron Sayne
Extractive sector policies and governance choices are holding back solar and wind projects in many countries. Part of the trouble lies in the shortsighted habits of political decision-making that oil, gas or coal exploitation can foster. Debates about domestic energy use are highly political and can fall prey to narrow agendas.
 

Revisit the Most-Read NRGI Blog Posts of 2018

19 December 2018
The resource governance dimensions of Hollywood blockbuster Black Panther, a groundbreaking online oil sector simulation and extractive contracts transparency were all hot topics this year.

NRGI Continues Media Support Through Unique Fellowships in 2018

7 August 2018
Toyin Akinniyi, Ryan Powell
Across the world, journalists have been key to uncovering malfeasance in the natural resources sector. Media have exposed illicit activities by international oil companies like Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria. They have shed light on Cameroon petroleum contracts that bring few benefits to locals and to national accounts.

What Makes an Accountable State-Owned Enterprise?

26 March 2018
Alexandra Gillies, Patrick Heller, Daniel Kaufmann
NRGI president and CEO Daniel Kaufmann and NRGI advisors Alexandra Gillies and Patrick Heller share some ideas for keeping state companies accountable.

From Governance Structures to Gender Inclusion: A Young Mozambican Lawyer Experiences an Accra Extractives Course

9 January 2018
Deisy Inssa Ribeiro, Nicola Woodroffe
Each year, the Anglophone Africa Regional Extractive Industries Knowledge Hub intensive two-week September course in Accra focuses on the most pressing regional issues in resource governance.

A 2017 Year-End Message from NRGI President and CEO Daniel Kaufmann

14 December 2017
Daniel Kaufmann
It was a turbulent year for extractives governance, bringing both setbacks and achievements. That said, there also is much cause for optimism.

Countries Struggling with Governance Manage $1.2 Trillion in Resource Wealth

8 September 2017
David Mihalyi, Anna Fleming
NRGI set out to collect total oil, gas and mining revenue data for the countries included in the Resource Governance Index to find out how many dollars flow to governments that mismanage the handling of their natural resources. 

Nigeria Media Fellowship Aims to Sharpen Oil, Gas Coverage

17 July 2017
NRGI's Media for Oil Reform Fellowship is a development program designed to promote reporting that deepens knowledge of the Nigeria oil sector and that drives positive change in the sector. 

Nigeria Watchdog Journalism Plays Essential Role in Malabu Oil Scandal Probe

6 April 2017
Toyin Akinniyi
When Premium Times began investigating the Malabu oil scandal—which involves Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, as well as former Nigeria petroleum minister Dan Etete and other politically exposed persons—there was little sense of where the Nigerian newspaper’s reporting would lead.

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