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“What we are currently thinking about is how to avoid the resource curse through two things, first, how to make oil and gas revenues transparent, and second, how to increase citizen’s participation in sustainable development planning” says Kunarto Marzuki. Best practices from Indonesia.

A film on the Ogoni people in the Niger delta in Nigeria who protested against environmental destruction and exclusion from the oil funds at the beginning of the 1990s. The Nigerian military bloodily oppressed the protests. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands displaced.

Interesting blog by Christiane Badgley writing about Oil Stories in Africa. read more

The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev) is a funding mechanism for practical capacity building, training, technical assistance, implementation support, awareness-raising, and tool development. read more

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is a global network of civil society organisations that are united in their call for oil, gas and mining revenues to form the basis for development and improve the lives of ordinary citizens in resource-rich countries. read more