Revenue Watch Institute in Iraq

The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) has been active in Iraq since shortly after the 2003 war. In April 2006, RWI held a seminar in Beirut gathering over 50 specialists and experts in the oil industry

=Projects=

In 2011, RWI supported three projects in Iraq; two to strengthen parliamentary oversight of Iraq's oil and gas sector and one to raise awareness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) among civil society organisations (CSOs) in Iraq's Kurdish north.

RWI sponsored a $115,958 grant in 2011 for the Arab Region Parliamentarians Against Corruption (ARPAC) to build the capacity of Iraqi parliamentarians, key ministry staff and civil society representatives to improve oil and gas revenue management. The grant involved ARPAC holding a series of three-day workshops to train participants to obtain, analyze and act on oil and gas sector-related information, including public policy issues, standard industry oversight practices, revenue management and transparency, contracting basics, analyzing oil and gas contracts and the EITI.

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