Publish What You Pay

The is the first of three planned publications produced by the Promoting Revenue Transparency Project and builds on the work of the Save the Children UK ‘Beyond the Rhetoric’ report from 2005.

It is available in English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Follow the Money: A Guide to Monitoring Budgets and Oil and Gas revenues

Follow the Money provides practical information on how citizens of resource-rich countries can become effective monitors of government earnings and expenditures. It summarizes the experiences of some of the most successful budget groups in the world. Representatives of these groups came together at Central European University in April 2004 to discuss what it takes to succeed in monitoring government management of public money. The workshop was organized by the Open Society Institute's Revenue Watch programme (a PWYP partner) in collaboration with the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University and the International Budget Project.

Follow the Money is the first in a series of guides to be published by Revenue Watch targeting different audiences—nongovernmental organizations, journalists, investors, and policymakers—in an effort to help these stakeholders promote government transparency and accountability.

The guidebook is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Bahasa Indonesia (all PDF format)

A Rough Guide to Transparency and Natural Resource Revenues

Published by PWYP member CAFOD, this is a short and accessible guide on why natural resource revenues have not contributed to poverty reduction in many of the world's oil, gas and mineral rich developing countries, and why transparency over revenue flows between companies and governments is fundamental to lift the "resource curse".

Also available in French (PDF format)

International Financial Institutions and Revenue Transparency

This briefing published by PWYP member Bank Information Center highlights the current approach of International Financial Institutions (World Bank Group, IMF, EBRD) to revenue and contract transparency in the extractive industries and suggests ways to improve.

Full report in PDF. Also available in Russian.

Covering Oil: A Reporter's Guide to Energy and Development

This guidebook, a collaborative work of the Open Society Institute's Revenue Watch program and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, aims to encourage rigorous reporting on the legal, economic, and environmental implications of resource extraction by providing practical information about the petroleum industry and the impact of resource wealth on a producing country. Covering Oil outlines the fundamentals of petroleum contracts, provides a glossary of relevant economic theory, and presents case studies of major public policy issues.

Full guidebook in English (PDF). Also available in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese and Bahasa Indonesia (all PDF).