UNDP Oslo Governance Centre

Democratic Governance of Non Renewable Natural Resources NRNR

There is increasing recognition that achieving the MDGs and long term sustainable development require the harnessing of domestic resources, including the expansion of domestic fiscal space.  Windfall from non renewable natural resources (NRNR) presents a window of opportunity to do just that. Enhancing democratic governance of expenditure of NRNR revenue is critical in this regard. This project addresses the need for policy and technical assistance in order to better ensure that revenue from NRNR contributes equitably to improvements in people’s lives as reflected in the achievement of the MDGs, balancing rising demand for energy with environmental sustainability and sensitivity to social and economic inclusion of women, indigenous peoples and vulnerable groups.  A number of countries have been found to have UNDP programmatic presence that would benefit from better documentation of global experience and better management of knowledge.  This project intends to address this need -in cooperation with regional bureaux and regional centres, other UNDP bureaux and multilateral organizations and research/think tanks, both in the North and the South.

Objectives

• Global documentation and critical assessment of existing policy guidelines and technical tools to support spending of NRNR revenue on equitable social service delivery, local development and environmental management.
• Global documentation and critical assessment of field experiences fostering civic engagement and enhancing accountability of non renewable natural resource revenue expenditure for equitable social service delivery, esp. at the local level.
• Knowledge management through development of portal, communities of practice and global/regional partnerships with private sector and national / international CSOs.

 

For further information please contact:

• Noha El-Mikawy, Ph.D.
  Governance and Poverty Advisor
  Email: noha.el-mikawy@undp.org
  Tel: +47 2306 0823
  Skype: elmikawy
• Lucie Slengesol Senftova
  Research Associate
  Tel: +47 2324 4761
  Email: lucie.slengesol@undp.org