The International Policy Fellowship > 2005/2006

Problems of good governance in extractive industries


	Context and background

	▪ Soros network initiatives
	OSI Governance initiatives OSI AZ Transparency of Oil Revenues OSI Revenue watch OSI Central Eurasia project OSI eurasianet.org Covering Oil: A Reporter’s Guide Follow the Money: oil and gas revenues Related IPF research

	▪ Relevant initiatives worldwide
	Extractive Industry Transparency Publish What You Pay World Bank on resource curse

	▪ Annotated papers
	Follow the money Caspian oil windfalls Covering oil – a reporter’s guide Towards an Improved Governance Agenda for Extractive Industries Extracting Transparency

Project objectives

examine and assess relevant components of good governance in Azerbaijan in general and in extractive industries in particular;

analyze the risks of ineffective use of oil revenues, budget resources and the loans received by the government;

prepare recommendations and analyze the potential and capabilities of the civil society to monitor the government‘s activity/inactivity; and

to write a research paper and 20-page policy study in coordination with the group advisor.

	Fellow Website
	▪ www.policy.hu/bagirov

	Fellow activities & publications
	▪ expected in April 2006


	The fellow
	▪ Curriculum vitae ▪ Research proposal ▪ e-mail:

	2005 Working Groups
	▪ 2005 Working Group Summary ▪ Democratic Governance ▪ Wider Europe ▪ Public Health and Roma ▪ Policy Making ▪ Combatting Organized Crime ▪ Higher Education Reform ▪ Open Society in Former SU ▪ Open Society and Muslims

	2006 Working Groups
	▪ 2006 Working Group Summary ▪ Wider Europe ▪ Open Muslim Societies ▪ Open Society Threats ▪ Resource Curse ▪ Roma Exclusion ▪ Open Information Policy

January 2006