23 Apr 2012In a revealing paper Derek Matyszak of the Research and Advocacy Unity of Zimbabwe analyses the legal and political realities of what he calls the ZIMPLATS saga. Matyszak addresses what he calls ...

28 Feb 2011Idasa’s submission to February’s National Climate Change Response Green Paper, on behalf of the Electricity Governance Initiative of South Africa (EGI-SA) which it co-ordinates, points out that the challenges of ...

16 Jan 2009By: Shun Govender and Beatrice Mutale Skagestad Ways to enhance Strategic Cooperation among Non-state Actors in Angola One of the important challenges in Angola has been the good governance of ...

04 Mar 2008Karin Alexander and Stefan Gilbert (Additional writing and background research: Christine Betzing & Justin Steyn) “All people have the right to their country’s natural resources...” – so says the African Charter ...

14 Dec 2007Etienne Yemek Oil-producing countries in the Gulf of Guinea are in the midst of an oil boom as multinational oil companies invest in the region for exploration and production from ...

29 Nov 2007Idasa has undertaken a project to measure the impact of oil on good governance. The research has focused on four countries that are at various stages in the oil extraction ...

17 Aug 2005This article appeared in the Business Day on the 17th August 2005. The dust has almost managed to settle after the report by the Public Protector into the “oil-gate” saga. ...

29 Jul 2005By Christian Mounzéo & Brice Mackosso, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Coalition, Congo-Brazzaville For the past three decades, the Congolese economy has been heavily dependent on the country’s principal natural ...

28 Jun 2005Idasa attended two events dealing with transparency in extractive industries in the region of the Gulf of Guinea. Both events were organised by the Congolese Coalition, ‘Publish What You Pay’ ...

25 Feb 2005The Congolese Coalition “Publish What You Pay” (PWYP) hosted two events dealing with transparency in extractive industries in the region of the Gulf of Guinea. The first was a round ...

07 Feb 2005The application of the economic and financial criteria of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) in Burkina Faso By Kaphale Silwe Introduction Burkina Faso forms part of a ...

13 Nov 2004Budget Learning Initiative between Intermon Oxfam and Idasa November 2004 N'Djamena, Chad With the construction of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project and associated petroleum developments, a number of Chadian civil ...