Wardhani, I. S. and Devy Dhian Cahyati (2020) This article explores how the materiality of natural resources influences social movements. Applying a relational paradigm and new materialism approach, this article explores the materiality of gold as a vital element of actor-network linkages, organisation, framing mechanisms, and recruitment. The transformation of gold from an ore into [...]

Diprose, R., Nanang Kurniawan, Kate Macdonald, & Poppy Winanti. (2020) Voluntary supply chain regulation has proliferated in recent decades in response to concerns about the social and environmental impacts of global production and trade. Yet the capacity of supply chain regulation to influence production practices on the ground has been persistently questioned. Through empirical analysis [...]

Edjekumhene, I., Voors, M., Lujala, P., Brunnschweiler, C., Owusu, C.K., and Nyamekye, A. (2019). In 2007, Ghana discovered oil and gas in commercial quantities and subsequently enacted the Petroleum Revenue Management Act (PRMA) 2011 (Act 815) to govern the management of the revenues to accrue from the new-found resource in a transparent and accountable manner. Two provisions of [...]

Christa Brunnschweiler, Ishmael Edjekumhene, Päivi Lujala, and Marten Voors (2019). This policy brief reports the findings from an evaluation of measures by Ghana’s Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) to provide transparency and accountability in petroleum revenue management. Can transparency change people’s attitudes and behavior regarding petroleum revenue management? We sought to answer this question in a field [...]

Päivi Lujala, Christa Brunnschweiler, and Ishmael Edjekumhene (2019). This policy brief reports the findings from a large-scale survey of Ghanaians’ level and sources of information on resource revenue management. The Government of Ghana puts strong emphasis on making natural resource revenue-related information public, particularly when it comes to petroleum revenues. Have the policies been successful? An analysis of [...]