Govt expenditure

La coalition ROTAB/PCQVP a écrit au ministre des finances demandant le payement des 15% des revenus miniers et pétroliers aux communes d’exploitation. En effet la distribution de ces 15% sont prévus dans la loi minière de 2006, mais à ce jour les communes concernées n’ont pas encore reçues les revenus de 2009 ou 2010.

Today the International Budget Partnership releases “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?”— a new documentary film on the work one of its partners, MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights), is doing to involve communities directly in monitoring the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Mombasa, Kenya. The CDF allocates approximately one million dollars annually to each member of parliament to spend on development projects in his or her constituency but provides for no meaningful independent oversight. This is the story of ordinary Kenyans stepping in to do something about it.

In Nigeria, as elsewhere, corrupt practices impair oil sector performance. This U4 Brief looks at five approaches to advancing anti-corruption reform in Nigeria’s oil sector: the legal and regulatory framework; open and competitive award procedures; process and revenue transparency; investigation and prosecution of corruption; and oversight and accountability measures.

This U4 Brief attempts to shed light on how public sector institutions governing the Nigerian oil sector permit the existence of corruption. Six areas of corruption risk are addressed: the awarding of licenses; the awarding of contracts; bottlenecks and inefficiencies; the role of bunkering; the exportation of crude; and importing refined products.

This report focuses on the paradoxical links between natural resource wealth and child poverty in developing countries, including Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Sudan and Venezuela. It includes recommendations for governments, companies, shareholders, donors and civil society on how to enhance transparency over company payments and government revenues, which Save the Children UK believes to be integral to a more accountable system for the management of such revenues that is in the best interests of children.

Concern over the destiny of the country compelled the formation of a civil society coalition, “Oil Revenues – Under Public Oversight!”. We believe that Kazakhstan needs to demonstrate its adherence to the principles of transparency, democracy and responsible management of natural wealth in order to create favorable conditions for the development of other sectors of the economy and to enhance healthcare, education and the social welfare system….

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The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) international coalition of NGOs warmly welcomes the launch of the “Oil Revenues – Under the Public Oversight” coalition in Kazakhstan. It marks an important step forward in civil society’s efforts to hold the Kazakh government accountable for the management of revenues from the country’s valuable natural resource industries.

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“Last week, the first oil tanker left the waters off Kribi, Cameroon, its belly filled with 950,000 barrels of crude and the hopes of millions of Chadians to whom the oil belongs. But fragile are the hopes that the $2 to 6 billion in oil revenues estimated to flow into Chad over the next 30 years will lift people out of poverty.