Africa - part of its corporate citizenship activities

Name of thecandidateMaurice OumaOdhiamboName of theOrganization orNetworkJamaa ReourceInitiativesTitle Address/Country Telephone/Fax/e-mail Website Language(s)SpokenExecutive Salman Centre Tel: +254-773545642 www.EnglishDirector (2nd Floor, Room Email:jamaaresourceinitiatives.org Swahili11) - Kijabe Row info@jamaaresourceinitiatives.orgAddress: P.O. Box1554-20100,NakuruQuestion #1 Question #2 Question #3 Question #4Jamaa is a Swahili word meaning community.Jamaa Resource Initiatives is thus a civilsociety organization advocating for communalparticipation and management of resourcesfrom resource rich communities.We work to explore the idea of self-reliance andcommunity-led and resourced development.Jamaa Resource Initiatives has come intoexistence by understanding the need to reducedependence on foreign aid.The work involves research, focuseddiscussion, and debate on sustainability ofdevelopment efforts by stakeholders throughoutAfrica. Jamaa Resource Initiative’s distinctiveniche is based on one of the greatestchallenges that confront the civil society sector.That of raising adequate resources to supportdevelopment work.Jamaa Resource Initiative promotes andfacilitates collaborative links within and amongcommunities, individuals, and local businessesto increase efforts in pooling resources togetherfrom various local sources.We DemandThat Multi-national, IFIs, FDIs, private andstate-owned extractive companies todisclose a netfigure for all types of payments (royalties,taxes, bonuses etc) made to governments intheir annual financial accounts, and todisclose to which level of governmentpayments are made;That The Government of Kenya disclosurepayments by all extractive companiesoperating inKenya on a company-by-company basis andby payment type; disclose full revenues fromresource extraction; Independently audit andverify this information in line with bestinternational practice and establish open,participatory and transparent budgetprocesses at national, regional and locallevels in order to consult with civil society onthe effective allocation and management ofrevenues from resource extraction and publicfinances in order to promote broad-basedeconomic and social development;.That Bilateral and multi-lateral financialinstitutions, including the World Bank Group,IMF, Regional Development banks, exportcredit agencies and private sector banks, torequire extractive companies to comply withthe Publish What You Pay requirements ontransparency of payments as a pre-conditionof all project support, and governments tohave in place a functioning system to ccountfor and independently audit revenues fromextractive industries in return for nonhumanitarian/non-emergencydevelopment,technical and financial assistance;That Extractive companies and localauthorities should disclose information aboutsocial investments and payments to localbudgets made by extractive companies.These payments and investments areimportant factors of sustainable social andeconomic development and thus the publicshould be involved in the process ofmanaging these revenues;That for the public disclosure of extractiveindustry contracts and for licensingprocedures to becarried out transparently in line with bestinternational practice. As contracts typicallyinclude schedules, formulas and otherdeterminants of the government’s potentialrevenue streams (such as revenue sharingarrangements, taxes, royalties, bonuses,social benefits, etc., and exemptions fromany of these) fulfilling the public’s right toaccess these contracts (with exemptions forprovisions that are genuinely commercialconfidential information) will help informcitizens about how much their government issupposed to receive from resourceextraction, which can then be compared withhow much the government actually receives.Contract transparency can thus help civilsociety understand whether governmentshave struck deals with extractive sectorprojects that are in the public interest, andthen whether promised revenues actuallymaterialize.We envisage promoting full accountability ofIFIs, FDIs, companies and governments inthemanagement of resource revenues,Promoting transparency of revenues and ofextractive industry contracts is a vital firststep towards alleviating the crushing povertyof ordinary citizens in many resource-richThe Mission statementJamaa Resource Initiative exists to promotesocial responsibility of governments,InternationalFinance Institutions, CorporateOrganizations and individuals in East Africathrough capacitybuilding, advocacy, networking, researchand technical support for a just andequitable society.Main ObjectiveTo promote through research, studies,workshops and seminars the formulationand enforcementof environmental policies and laws thatenhances participatory governance anddemocracy, entrench corporate socialresponsibility within the corporate sector inKenya and harness community resourcesmore effectively for sustainable developmentSpecific ObjectivesJamaa Resource Initiatives subscribes to thefollowing Specific objectives:1. To raise the competence of communityinstitutions and their representatives at alllevels in Kenya on alternative systems andto demand transparency and accountabilityfrom the governments and other publicinstitutions.2. To develop an informational supportservice in order to catalyze change in Kenyaand popularize knowledge on, social capitaland effect cutting edge strategies towardstheir realization.3. To encourage and promote fullaccountability of international financeinstitutions, foreign direct investors,companies and governments in themanagement of resource revenues, promotetransparency of revenues and extractiveindustries contracts4. To engage and use legal systems andprocesses to address conflicts over accessto and control of environment and naturalresources by resource dependentcommunities in Kenya5. To establish a permanent structure inKenya which shall devote its efforts to thedevelopment and growth of alternativesystems and building social capital and to doall such other things as are incidental andconducive to the attainment of any of theabove objectives.6. To establish facilities such as libraries,databases, data banks and informationnetworks necessary for the gathering,analysis, storage, exchange anddissemination of information.7. To enter into any arrangement with anygovernment or inter-governmental agency,provincial or regional authority, corporation,academic or research institution,nongovernmental organization or individualwhere such arrangement may seemconducive to any or all of the Organisation’sobjectives and to obtain from them anyrights privileges or concessions which theOrganisation may think desirable.8. To apply to any institution or individual forand accept grants of money, aid, donations,gifts and other assistance with a view torealizing the objectives of the Institute.No