Scholarships for “Improving the Governance of Extractive Industries” training are available!
As part of the Asia Pacific Knowledge Hub program, the Department of Politics and Government in collaboration with the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) will conduct a training course on “Improving the Governance of Extractive Industries”. The training will be held from October 19 – 31, 2015 at the Faculty of Social and Political Science. Expert facilitators and resource persons will lead discussions on five topics in extractive industry governance: (1) socio-environmental impacts, (2) revenue management, (3) tax, royalty, and contract terms, (4) coalition for reforms and (5) expanding disclosure requirements of EITI. The course, delivered in English, is open to civil society organizations, policymakers, members of EITI multi-stakeholder groups and EITI secretariat. Employees of the oil, gas and mining companies, government officials, state-owned enterprise staff, and professionals involved in oil, gas and mining sectors in the Asia Pacific region are invited as observers in this training. We offer competitive scholarships for participants coming from CSOs, journalists, non-profit think tanks and academia from the following countries: Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Timor Leste and Indonesia. Attendance cost, inclusive of accommodation, food and tuition is US$2,000. For more information, please contact Ms. Dian Lestariningsih, Asia Pacific Hub Manager at aspachub.polgov@gmail.com
Important Dates :
- Application deadline : July 31, 2015
- Announcement of shortlisted candidates : Aug 5, 2015
- Interview via Skype (only for scholarship candidates) : Aug 6-8, 2015
- Pre-Course assignment : Aug 15- Sept 5, 2015
- Final announcement of participants and scholarship recipients : Sept 7, 2015
- Registration : Sept 7-11, 2015
- ASPACHUB Training : Oct 19-31, 2015