2022 Africa and Middle East Regional Meeting

In this session SARW and ONG 3D will lead the key conversation by showcasing the corruption and transparency vulnerabilities within Southern and West African Development countries’ fiscal and decarbonisation policy agenda, which will ultimately impact the region’s just and equitable energy transition ambitions and its ability to deliver current and future public services. The current focus and conversations on decarbonisation and just transition have not been done from the context of securing public service delivery. This session will contribute to the open government community by exchanging ideas and research conducted in Senegal of community and municipality accountability measures of fair share of mining revenues. The session will also create dialogue around the multilateral initiatives which would enable a just and equitable energy transition through enhancement and advocacy of fiscal transparency policy such as beneficial ownership. This will be achieved through a discussion of Zambia, DRC and South Africa energy transition commitments including communities lived experiences of climate change, the political considerations towards just transition within Africa more broadly, the use case of beneficial ownership transparency in the energy transition policies and avenues for the OGP to contribute to sustainable imperatives in climate change and good governance in the extractives sector across the region.