About the Project

Project OMG (Open Mining Governance) is an initiative of Bantay Kita with the support from Hivos and Article 19. The project plans to increase access, understanding, and use of mining contracts data. Since the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) a lot of contracts and data has been made available to the public. Capacity among civil society organizations and communities, however, remain a challenge in translating transparency to accountability.

Project OMG will partner with grassroots/peoples organizations, legal action groups, and academic institutions based in the provinces of Cebu and Palawan to conduct workshops and analyses of available relevant data. This is in the hope that through Project OMG communities be better informed and to use the data in the management of their natural resources

Call for Proposals

Bantay Kita through the Project Open Mining Governance calls for proposals aiming to increase access, understanding, and use of mining data in the provinces of Palawan and Cebu. Approved proposals from partners will need to come up with a knowledge material in a span of 3 months in collaboration with the Bantay Kita Secretariat. A list of possible knowledge materials is found below.

Details:

• Duration of the Partnership: 3 months
• Benefits of the Partners: Maximum Grant of   Php 40,000, Mentorship Package or Capacity-Building, Platforms to share experience
• Eligible Organizations: Civil society organizations (i.e., research institutions, NGOs, POs) with work related to governance of the mining sector based in the provinces of Palawan and Cebu
• Requirements:
  
  • Delivery of Knowledge and Visual Material in the local language of the community;
    
  • Biweekly Updates;
    
  • Conduct of creative workshop/outreach activity with impacted communities; and
    
  • Proof of access, understanding, and use of mining data
• Menu of Knowledge and Visual Materials: Primer, Infographic, Research Paper, Advocacy Plan, Policy Paper/Brief, Comics, Posters

​For questions, please email secretariat@bantaykita.ph for further discussions.

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