Striking Oil: Blessing or Curse?
The first round of PWYP Norway’s capacity strengthening programme was concluded in December 2009. UK based INTRAC and PWYP Norway have developed a paper in the Praxis Note-series, seeking to capture the lessons learnt from the first round of the programme; a practical experience of capacity development with CSOs in seven African countries to promote greater transparency over oil revenues.
After giving the background to the issue and the programme, the paper examines the lessons learnt about advocacy under four headings:
- Accessing information
- Raising public awareness
- Building community capacity
- Influencing governments.
Finally, the paper looks at what has been learnt about the capacity building of CSOs in the process.
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