SDGAcademyX: Natural Resources for Sustainable Development

• How countries translate natural resource wealth into sustainable development outcomes
• How governance of extractive industries impact long term economic development
• The policies necessary for the sustainable management of natural resource wealth
• Why communication between government, industry, and citizensis critical to sustainable natural resource management

Module 1: Challenges and opportunities

• History of oil, gas, and mining
• Challenges& opportunities: oil, gas, and mining
• The decision chain of natural resource management (I)
• The decision chain of natural resource management (II)

Module 2: Political economy of natural resources

• How natural resources shape and are shaped by political context
• Corruption trends in the extractive sector
• International governance
• Natural resources& the broader governance framework
• Transparency& accountability

Module 3: Fundamentals of oil, gas, and mining: industry considerations and policy

• From oil well to car - market, players, and extraction process
• From mine to mobile phone - market, players, and extraction process
• How a company decides to invest
• Project development
• Evolving technology

Module 4: Legal overview

• Legal& regulatory frameworks for extractive industries
• Allocation of rights
• Implementation& monitoring of legal frameworks
• International law& the extractive industries
• State-owned enterprises: Role and governance

Module 5: Fiscal regime design and revenue collection

• Resource economics& fiscal regime principles
• Fiscal instruments I: Royalty/tax systems
• Fiscal instruments II: Contract-based systems
• Fiscal regime implementation

Module 6: Anticipating and managing environmental issues

• Environmental challenges and trends: oil and gas
• Environmental challenges and trends: mining
• Managing environmental challenges
• Extractives and climate change
• Environmental impact assessments

Module 7: Community rights

• Social impact and engagement
• Human rights and the mining industry
• Mining and vulnerable populations
• Company-community agreements

Module 8: Artisanal mining

• Introduction to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)
• Challenges of ASM
• ASM and gender
• Tensions betweenASM and large-scale mining
• Theway forward

Module 9: Revenue management

• Challenges of revenue management
• Policy responses: savings, spending, public debt, and earmarking
• Natural resource funds
• Revenue sharing and decentralization

Module 10: Investing in sustainable development: Economic linkages to the extractives sector

• Introduction to economic linkages
• Local employment
• Local procurement
• Enabling tech transfer
• Downstream linkages

Module 11: Investing in sustainable development: Looking beyond extractives

• Investing in investing
• Leveraging extractive industries for infrastructure
• Resource-for-infrastructure deals

Module 12: Cross-cutting considerations and looking ahead

• Political tripod and authorizing environment
• Engaging citizens
• Aligning extractive industries with theSDGs