1. 2017 Resource Governance Index (RGI)
The 2017 Resource Governance Index
Natural Resource Governance Institute
Dana Wilkins
September 27, 2017

2. Outline The Resource Governance Index
The Charter Benchmarking Framework
Other offerings

3. The RGI’s Purpose Resource governance across the decision chain
Objectives:
greater awareness of challenges
more informed dialogue
better policy choices

4. The RGI’s Coverage 89 assessments, 81 countries Bespoke questionnaire
47 oil and gas
26 mining
Bespoke questionnaire
150 consultants
10,000+ documents
Complex scoring structure

5. The RGI’s General Findings

6. The RGI’s General Findings

7. The RGI’s General Findings

8. The RGI’s Subcomponent Findings
SOE average scores of country groupings
Top 10 SOE ranking
# Assessments
Average
OECD 3 81
Western Europe 1 80
Latin America and the Caribbean 10 68
OGP 23 64
Asia Pacific 12 58
WB High income 9 54
EITI 34 52
WB Middle income 51
IMF Non-resource-rich 21
Eurasia 8
Oil and gas 50
All assessments 74 49
IMF Resource-rich 46 48
IMF Prospective resource-rich 7 45
Mining 22
OPEC 14
Middle East and North Africa 16 44
Africa 40
Sub-Saharan Africa 27 39
WB Low income
North America .
Rank / 74
Score 1
Chile 90 2
India 87 3
Argentina 83 4
Norway 80 5
Morocco 79 6
Indonesia (mining) 78 7
Ukraine 76 8
Ghana (oil and gas) 75 9
Trinidad and Tobago 10
Mexico (oil and gas) 74

9. The RGI’s Subcomponent Findings
SWF average scores of country groupings
Top 10 SWF ranking
# Assessments
Average
Western Europe 1 90
North America 88
IMF Non-resource-rich 6 75
OECD 5
IMF Prospective resource-rich 3 73
Latin America and the Caribbean 7 72
Mining 71
OGP 13 70
EITI 12 66
Asia Pacific 64
WB High income 11 53
Eurasia 4 50
All assessments 34 49
WB Middle income 21 48
Oil and gas 28 44
IMF Resource-rich 25 39
Middle East and North Africa 9
Sub-Saharan Africa 31
Africa 30
WB Low income 2 26
OPEC
Rank / 34
Score =1
Colombia (mining)
100
Colombia (oil and gas) 3
Ghana (oil and gas) 93 4
Chile 92 5
Norway 90 6
Timor-Leste 88 7
Canada (Alberta) 8
Trinidad and Tobago 74 9
Iran 70 10
Peru 69 11
Kazakhstan 67

10. The RGI’s Country Findings

11. The RGI’s Country Findings

12. The Charter Benchmarking Framework
The Natural Resource Charter
Multilevel assessment framework
Informed by actual benchmarking experience

13. Other Offerings Research and analysis Online training
Global and regional courses
Workshops and ad hoc support