What has been the contribution of natural resources to the development of our countries? Very often we express that in figures and percentages and then begin to fashion out the relationship between the owner, the user, and essentially the beneficiary. [...] The income share of the bottom 40% rose by 42.55% and that of the top 10.0% fell by 25.06% between 1994 and 2014, giving a Palma ratio (income of the bottom 40% as a share of that of the top 10% of the population). [...] The purpose of our mobilisation and organisation is to alter the essence of the political settlement because the structure of the economy that was left for us, the nature of the policies we inherited, and the corruption issue are all a result of the political settlement we let to develop. [...] While the government is focused on the 50-million-dollar tax, the question we need to be asking ourselves is, what measures are in place to ensure that the 150 million dollars spent on services and procurement activities remain in the country? The challenge is that we don't have local enterprises with the capacity to absorb this money and so it leaves the country most of the time. [...] The current political settlement around natural resources is that the central government takes its share of the rent, and gives some to the chiefs and the district assemblies while the local people are left out of the equation.
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- Acronyms 6
- 1.0 BACKGROUND 8
- 2.0 OPENING STATEMENTS 8
- 2.1 National Development Planning Commission 8
- 2.2 Ford Foundation 9
- 2.3 African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) 9
- 2.4 Publish What You Pay (PWYP) 10
- 2.5 Statement By Director General, National Development Planning Commission, Ghana 10
- 3.0 CONFERENCE PAPERS 11
- 3.1 PAPER 1: INEQUALITIES AND NATURAL RESOURCES GOVERNANCE: A BROAD WEST AFRICAN PICTURE 11
- 3.2 QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ON PAPER 1 14
- 3.2.1 CONTRIBUTIONS ON PAPER 1: 16
- 3.3 PAPER 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EXTRACTIVISM: 16
- 3.3.1 The Political Economy of Natural Resource Governance and Inequalities in West Africa 16
- 3.3.1.1 REFLECTIONS BY DISCUSSANT 19
- 3.3.1.2 Questions and Contributions 19
- 3.3.2 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM DAY ONE: 21
- 3.4 PAPER 3: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND INEQUALITIES 22
- 3.4.1 NATURAL RESOURCES AND INEQUALITY IN WEST AFRICA 22
- 3.4.1.1 DISCUSSANTS ON PRESENTATION II 24
- 3.4.1.2 1ST DISCUSSANT: MR. EMMANUEL KUYOLE – PROGRAM OFFICER, FORD FOUNDATION 24
- 3.4.1.3 2ND DISCUSSANT: MR. BISHOP AKOLGO – FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ISODEC 25
- 3.4.1.4 QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS 26
- 3.5 PAPER 4: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON EXTRACTIVISM IN WEST AFRICA 27
- 3.5.1 GENDER JUSTICE & EXTRACTIVISM IN WEST AFRICA: WHAT ARE FEMINIST GROUPS SAYING & DOING ABOUT IT? 27
- 3.5.1.1 DISCUSSANT I: - Senior Regional Coordinator for Francophone West Africa – PWYP 28
- 3.5.1.2 2nd DISCUSSANT - Regional Director, Ford Foundation, West Africa 29
- 3.5.1.3 CONTRIBUTIONS 30
- 3.6 ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND RESOURCE GOVERNANCE 33
- 3.6.1 PAPER 1: LINKAGES BETWEEN EXTRACTIVES, ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, & INEQUALITIES IN THE ECOWAS REGION 33
- 3.7 PAPER 2: PROSPECTS FOR ACHIEVING EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN WEST AFRICA 37
- 3.8 PAPER 3: NATURAL RESOURCES AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITION IN WEST AFRICA: INSIGHTS FROM GHANA, NIGERIA, SIERRA LEONE, BURKINA FASO, AND SENEGAL 38
- 3.8.1 1ST DISCUSSANT– Policy Lead for Petroleum and Conversational Energy - African Centre for Energy Policy 40
- 3.8.2 2ND DISCUSSANT– Policy Analyst and Communication Strategist, ISODEC 41
- 3.8.3 QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS 43
- 4.0 COUNTRY CASE STUDIES: 45
- 4.1 NATURAL RESOURCES AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN THE SAHEL AND ON THE AFRICAN WEST COAST, THE CASE OF BURKINA FASO By Mr. Mamadou Karama 45
- 4.1.1 DISCUSSANT: Hon Emmanuel Bombande – Conflict Resolution and Peace Activist & Founder of WANEP 47
- 4.2 NIGERIA CASE STUDY: FUELING THE WORLD, FAILING THE PEOPLE; ENERGY POLICIES, ENERGY POVERTY AND ENERGY TRANSITION IN NIGERIA 50
- 4.3 GHANA CASE STUDY: IN WHAT WAY IS GHANA’S MANAGEMENT OF ITS NATURAL RESOURCES EXACERBATING OR HELPING TO REDUCE INEQUALITIES? 51
- 4.4 A CASE STUDY OF SIERRA LEONE: NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND INEQUALITY 53
- 4.4.1 QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS 54
- 4.4.2 CONTRIBUTIONS 56
- 4.5 NORTHERN GAHNA EXPERINCE: DEALING WITH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN MINING COMMUNITIES. THE CASE OF NORTHERN GHANA 57
- 4.5.1 A CASE OF THE SONGOR LAGOON – A SALT RICH COMMUNITY 59
- 5.0 HOW DO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES MANIFEST THEMSELVES IN MINING COMMUNITIES AND HOW HAVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CONFRONTED THESE IN WEST AFRICA AND BEYOND? 60
- 5.1.1 QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS 61
- 5.1.2 CONTRIBUTIONS: 63
- 5.2 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks – Pauline? 65
- 6.0 THE MEDIA, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY IN GHANA. 65
- 6.1.1 Contributions and Questions 71
- 7.0 CONFERENCE TAKEAWAYS 73
- 7.1 Professor Aliyu Jauro - Director General, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, Nigeria 73
- 7.2 Lumun Amanda Feese – Technical Advisor, Strategy & Governance, MinDiver 74
- 7.3 Dr. Winfred Nelson – National Development Planning Commission, Ghana 76
- 8.0 APPENDICES 78
- 8.1 Appendix I – Program for the Conference 78
- 8.2 Appendix II - List of Participants 80
- 8.2.1 IN-Country Participants 80
- 8.2.2 Out-Country Participants 82
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