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Three-day conference on Africaâ€™s natural resources starts in Tanzania

Author: SEM Contributor

A three-day regional conference on Africaâ€™s Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources for development: the role of legislators, civil society and the media, opened yesterday 11^th May 2010 at the White Sands Hotel in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. (Photo: Participants at the conference)

The main objective of the conference which is jointly organized by the Policy Forum, Revenue Watch Institute, Africa Institute for Energy Governance, Parliamentary Centre and the National Advocacy Coalition on the Extractives (NACE), is to provide delegates with knowledge through technical training as well as sharing and learning experiences about oversight of oil, gas and mining.

The conference also aims at increasing channels and opportunities for collaboration and access to intellectual and training resources and expertise on extractives.

The conference draws together a total of 45 participants, mostly parliamentarians, civil society activists and media practitioners from the host country Tanzania, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Uganda.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, the facilitator of the event, Vanessa Herringshaw, Revenue Watchâ€™s Director of Training and Capacity Building, referred to the conference not only as timely, but crucial, noting that â€œMore than ever before, Africans need to make the most of their natural resourcesâ€.

Among the topics to be deliberated upon are, the extractive industries and their importance to the four targeted countries and Africa in general, the role of oversight bodies and the value chain, reforming extractive industries laws and accessing and reviewing contracts and agreements.

The conference ends on Thursday 13^th May 2010, and the general expectation is that participants will return home to their respective countries re-energised and informed enough to be able to effectively take up the challenge of injecting sanity in the countryâ€™s extractive industries.

Sierra Leone has seven participants at the conference, and they include Honourable Chernor Ramadan Maju Bah, Chairman of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Mining, Honourable Bernadette Nyama Ann Lahai, member of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Mining, Honourable Paramount Chief Sahr Fengai Korgbende Kaimachiande 111 of Gbense Chiefdom, Kono District and also member of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Mining, Cecelia Christiana Mattia, National Co-ordinator of NACE, Joseph Rahall, Executive Director of Green Scenery, Alpha Umaro Sesay of IBIS and Theophilus Sahr Gbenda, freelance journalist and chairman of the Association of Journalists on Mining and Extractives (AJME) and official representative of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) at the conference.

Theophilus S. Gbenda, AJME/SLAJ

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Three-day conference on Africaâ€™s natural resources starts in Tanzania

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