For more than a decade, despite arrests and intimidations, PWYP activists in Congo-Brazzaville have been campaigning to find out how much the country receives from its oil. Despite being in the top five oil producers of Sub-Saharan Africa, almost three quarters of the population are thought to live on less than $2 a day - for PWYP Congo B, this just doesn’t add up...In a report launched on 3rd December, PWYP Congo-Brazzaville examined the health budgets of 2011, 2012 and 2013 and followed the money to see how proposed projects were being realised. Between December 2013 and October 2014, PWYP Congo B realised eight field visits covering 192 projects.The key findings made for sober reading…Overall, only a small percentage of projects were complete (16%) and only 9% were functioning - the other buildings had been constructed but either had not yet been equipped or did not meet required standards; more than half (56%) of projects listed in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 budgets had not been started; 16% of projects had been abandoned and were not salvageable. T he report also highlights several important findings about the way in which the projects were decided and executed, including: The need for an open and participatory budget process...a lack of transparency leads to manipulation...So this is where some of Congo B’s finite oil revenues have been going - to projects that have been unfinished, delayed or misconceived. PWYP Congo Brazzaville has elaborated a series of recommendations so that the elaboration and execution of these projects can be improved.