June 2009, Oil Gas and Mining Policy and Operations Unit (COCPO)
This paper relates the experience of the civil society organizations (CSOs) that used the DGF funds and outlines the various activities conducted within the program. The main finding of the Paper is that the direct support to CSOs through the DGF mechanism (July 2005 to June 2008) was well-received and met key program objectives. In particular, DGF funding helped to catalyze the EITI in countries by helping to strengthen CSOs to play their role in the EITI. Also, working closely with Revenue Watch Institute, (COCPO’s partner during the later part of the DGF grant cycle) has helped COCPO to build partnerships with CSOs generally. CSOs also found the strategic nature of the DGF interventions to be positive given the DGF grants allowed a broad range of CSO activities (advocacy, research, capacity-building, and communications) to be carried out around the sensitive topic of extractive industries/EITI.
