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Working Paper

28 January 2019

Sound of One Hand Clapping: Information Disclosure for Social and Political Action for Accountability in Extractive Governance in Mozambique

Published by: IDS

Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but under what conditions does it work to promote accountability in the extractive sector that for a long time has seen its revenue management as being a major cause of conflict in Africa?

Nicholas Awortwi
Adriano Nuvunga
Pathways to Accountability Bargains (part of the A4EA research programme) The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Holding Economics Actors to Account Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Mozambique Sub Saharan Africa
Brief

28 January 2019

Beyond Information Disclosure to Achieve Accountability in the Extractive Sector

Published by: IDS

Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of revenue loss annually. Initiatives around the world have consequently concentrated on information disclosure (ID) as a means to address this problem. But under what conditions does ID work to promote accountability in the extractive sector, where revenue management has long been a major cause of conflict?

Nicholas Awortwi
Adriano Nuvunga
Pathways to Accountability Bargains (part of the A4EA research programme) The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Holding Economics Actors to Account Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Mozambique