SARW is a project of Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.

OBJECTIVES
> To monitor corporate and state conduct in the extraction and beneficiation of natural resources in Southern Africa region, in particular assessing to what extent these efforts contribute to sustainable development”
> To consolidate research and advocacy on natural resources extraction issues in Southern Africa
> To put a spotlight on the specific dynamics of natural resources in Southern Africa region, building a distinctive understanding of the regional geo-political dynamics of resource economics.
> To provide-for researchers, policy makers and social justice activists especially in academic and civic spaces- a platform of action, coordination and organization, in the watching and strengthening of corporate and state accountability in natural resources extraction.
> To highlight the relationship between resource extraction activities and human rights as they obtain on the ground, and develop advocacy efforts that engage this reality

ADVOCACY
Strategies include:
> Promote revenue transparency by supporting the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Publish What You Pay (PWYP), and encourage countries in the region to join the EITI;
> promote the implmentation of regional and continetal initiatives--The SADC Mining Harminization policy and the African Mining Vision (AMV);
> advocate together with mining communities and civil society for a comprehensive Corporte Social Responsibility aganda;
> Promote and support the renegotiation of unfair mining contracts and the review of mining policies.

SARW will consolidate partnerships with, among others, economic justice networks that OSISA works with in the region, the EITI national secretariats, country PWYP chapters, the African Mining Development Centre in the pursuite of these objectives.

CAPACITY BUILDING
SARW works closely with key stakehoders to increase their capacity to monitor the extractive industries in an effort to hold both the private sector and government to account.  These stakeholders include:

> Civil society
> Media
> Parliaments
> Labour
> Mining Communities

Capacity building helps to remove the barriers to these actors effectiveness to facilitate a transparent, accountable, participative and equitable management of natural resources.