Focus AreasThe Central Eurasia Project (CEP) supports initiatives focusing on transparency and public accountability in regards to natural resource revenues. Transparency in this context is defined as public knowledge of national revenues and their allocation from purchasers, suppliers, and governments involved in natural resource markets. The goal of such efforts is to reduce institutionalized corruption and allow open public debate on government funding priorities—developments that could ensure that such revenues benefit the public as a whole rather than entrenched elites.
For the CEP’s general grantmaking purposes, Central Eurasia encompasses the former Soviet republics of Central Asia (except Turkmenistan) and the Caucasus as well as Turkey and Mongolia. Proposals related to projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa should be directed to OSI's Middle East and North Africa Initiatives. Proposals on Turkmenistan should be submitted directly to the CEP’s Turkmenistan Project.
The CEP’s Revenue Watch policy programs work on transparency in the Caspian Basin, Iraq and is expanding into other regions.
