Promoting development through transparency and access to information

OSISA has established a platform of advocacy and action around resource watching, with emphasis on the extractive industry to tackle the bigger challenge of resource abuse and war economies in Southern Africa.

The region straddles a significantly resource-rich geoformation that includes currently exploited and as-yet unexploited deposits of gold, diamonds, oil, uranium and cobalt.

This CD-ROM resource pack includes a collection of documents related to this issue.

The resources are available online, but please note that some files exceed 2MB in size, and may take a long time to dowload.

To order a copy of the CD-ROM from OSISA, email publications@osisa.org or contact us.

Contents

1. OSISA related information

OSISA strategy on transparency and accountability (slides)

OSISA strategy on transparency and accountability

Justice Initiative: access to information

DIHR: openness and access to information

OPENSPACE articles: resource extraction and transparency

2. Laws, policies and protocols

Declaration of principles on freedom of expression in Africa

The Johannesburg principles on natural security, freedom of expression and access to information

SADC protocol against corruption

3. Publish What You Pay

Measuring revenue transparency: company performance in the oil and gas industries

Follow the money: a guide to monitoring budgets and oil gas revenues (Jim Schultz)

The Rough guide to transparency and natural resource revenues

Revenue transparency in the extractive industries (Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs)

Unearth justice: counting the cost of gold (CAFOD)

Transparency begins at home: an assessment of United States revenue transparency and extractive industries transparency initiative requirements (OXFAM America)

The Equator principles: a financial industry benchmark for determining, assessing and managing social and environmental risk in project financing

Campaign activity brief toolkit

4. Global Witness

The Devastating story of oil and banking in Angola's privatised war: all the president's men

Global Witness to the extractive industries transparency initiative

Making it work: why the Kimberly process must do more to stop conflict diamonds

Time for transparency: coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues

Same old story: a background study on natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Riddle of the sphinx: where has Congo's oil money gone?

It's a gas: funny business in the Turkmen-Ukraine gas trade

5. NIZA: Fatal Attractions

Unearth justice: counting the cost of gold

The State vs the people: governance, mining and the transitional regime in the Democratic republic of Congo

The Effect of the Kimberly process on governance, corruption and internal conflict

6. Bretton Woods Project

The IMF and capital flight: redesigning the international financial architecture (David Spencer)

The Development gateway: biased, unaccountable and overpriced

The World Bank policy scorecard: the new conditionality (Jeff Powell)

Kept in the dark: a briefing on parliamentary scrutiny of the IMF and World Bank

How much trust should we put in the funds (Jeff Powell)

Secretive World Bank tribunal confronts call to open up

Civil society and Wolfowitz's World Bank: reform or rejection revisited (Patrick Bond)

The European Investment Bank in the South: in whose interest?

7. Transparency International

Corruption perceptions index 2005

First TI global corruption barometer survey, developed with Gallup International

Corruption and humanitarian aid

Political finance regulations: bridging the enforcement gap

Standards on political funding and favours