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CORPORATE & SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH & TRAININGS
An in-house research service for corporate research and supply chain research provided on request to CSOs. SOMO also gives trainings in areas such as corporate research, supply chain research, tax avoidance, and using corporate conduct standards in advocacy strategies.
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•The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), Netherlands, somo.nl
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FINDING THE MISSING MILLIONS
Trainings and presentations principally for CSOs and journalists, to understand and use data on extractive sector payments to governments made available by transparency laws. A training package includes a guide available in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish & Portuguese) with online video tutorials in English. Main tool website: finding-missing-millions
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•Global Witness, UK, globalwitness.org
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FOLLOW THE MONEY
A research service housed at IDI that undertakes investment and supply chain mapping on request from grassroots advocates and communities or from larger CSOs that have grassroots relationships. IDI and Equitable Cambodia also provide trainings for CSOs and have developed an English-language website that describes the Follow the Money process.
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•Inclusive Development International (IDI), USA, inclusivedevelopment.net
•Equitable Cambodia, Cambodia, equitablecambodia.org
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INFORMACCIÓN
A Spanish-language facilitator's guide for coordinating strategic corporate research and strategy development using a participatory research action process involving community-based groups and their allies at the local, national and international levels. Trainings have been provided and a Spanish-language online tool is in development.
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•Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina (OCMAL), Chile, ocmal.org
•Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales (OLCA), Chile, olca.cl
•Above Ground, Canada, aboveground.ngo
•Mining Watch Canada (MWC), Canada, miningwatch.ca
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STRATEGIC CORPORATE RESEARCH
An online guide to strategic corporate research and methodology that enables greater participation of community and union activists in the process. Guiding questions and sources of publicly available information are provided for publicly held companies in Canada, USA and the UK, as well as for privately held firms, non-governmental organizations and public sector entities in Canada and USA.
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•Tom Juravich, Professor of Labor Studies and Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and graduate students in the University’s Labor Center, umass.edu/tomjuravich
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Investigative Research and Data Skills Training
Scheduled and custom trainings in investigative research skills and new tools such as data reporting to foster investigative journalism. CIJ also has related resources, including a manual to understand company accounts.
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•The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), UK, tcij.org
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The Money Trail
A collaborative three-year project to conduct trainings and support stories on illicit and exploitative finance with the aim of fostering journalist collaborations in Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as campaign spikes to ensure stories have impact and raise awareness. money-trail.org
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•Finance Uncovered, UK, financeuncovered.org. / Tips from founder Nick Mathiason
•FreePress Unlimited, Netherlands, freepressunlimited.org/en
•Journalismfund.eu, Belgium, journalismfund.eu
•OxfamNovib, Netherlands, oxfamnovib.nl
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The Corporate Research Project
An online guide for US-based corporate research for community, environmental and labor organizations.
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•Good Jobs First, USA, goodjobsfirst.org
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Database on corporate misconduct: goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker
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Trainings & Resources for Corporate Research, Data & Related Skills
Manuals, trainings, papers and other materials available in several languages for investigating companies, specific economic sectors, etc. in order to support investigative and data journalists around the world.
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•Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), US-based/Global, gijn.org
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•Help Desk
•Resources for Investigating Corporations
•Resources for Researching the Extractive Industry
•Data Journalism Resources
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Who’s Running the Company? A Guide to Reporting on Corporate Governance
A research guide on company governance and identifying legal/regulatory red flags with resources and trainings on investigative and data journalism. Produced in collaboration with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.
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•International Center for Journalists, US-based/Global, icfj.org
additional materials
•Who’s Running the Company? guide description
•Follow the Money guide for investigating corruption
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Data Extractors Programme
Year-long training to uncover and use mandatory disclosure and other extractives data, and to build a network of trained activists among PWYP members.
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•Publish What You Pay (PWYP), UK-based/Global, pwyp.org
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Training in Investigative Journalism, including Data Skills
A public interest digital newsroom that provides trainings and resources on investigative and data journalism, for CSOs and others, to strengthen research on political and corporate power across Peru (in Spanish).
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•Convoca.pe, Peru, convoca.pe
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Corporate Research Guide & Trainings (Forthcoming)
A network of 18 European organizations that undertake corporate research and advocacy with plans to share and systematize their expertise and research tools.
Partners include: Observatoire des multinationales (France), Corporate Europe Observatory (EU), Corporate Watch (UK), SpinWatch (UK), Transnational Institute, Gresea (Belgium), SOMO (Netherlands), LobbyControl (Germany), Goliathwatch (Germany), ODG (Spain), OMAL (Spain), Novact (Spain), Centre Delàs (Spain), CETIM (Switzerland), MultiWatch (Swtizerland), Re:Common (Italy), Denik Referendum (Czech Republic) and Atlatszó (Hungary), Xnet (Spain).
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•European Network of Corporate Observatories (ENCO), corpwatchers.eu
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Investigative Dashboard
A research service and compilation of publicly-accessible databases to help journalists trace people, companies and assets.
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•Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), US-based with member groups in 34 countries, occrp.org/en
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Investigating Corporations in Latin America
An online guide (in Spanish) to learn how to find information about companies registered in different countries of Latin America. Includes information about whether it is possible to do online searches or whether it is necessary to obtain documents in person.
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•Connectas, Latin America coverage, connectas.org