About us

The West Africa Resource Watch (WARW) is a sub regional initiative established by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It is envisioned as a West-African home-grown institute committed to filling the gaps in the research, training, documentation, advocacy and policy advice needs of governments, CSOs and other stakeholders in the sub-region in the management of revenues from natural resources.

WARW envisions an Open Society where citizens can take part in economic policy discussions on the generation and use of resource derived revenues for social justice and mechanisms for extracting and achieving transparency and accountability exists and are functional.

The institute seeks to empower critical stakeholders in West Africa towards popular participation in economic policy making, the equitable generation and distribution of national resources and the transparent and accountable use of public resources.

Vision

WARW envisions an open society where there is citizens’ participation in decision making, transparency and accountability in economic policy making and in the generation and use of public resources towards equity and social justice

Mission

“Empowering critical stakeholders in West Africa towards popular participation in economic policy making, the equitable generation and distribution of national and the transparent and accountable use of public resources”