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Women stake their claim for a share of Guinea’s ‘red gold’ boom
Instead of reaping the benefits of Guinea’s growing bauxite market, women have paid a heavy price for it. Now they’re trying to change this, writes Hadja Aicha Barry from Publish What You Pay Guinea. When Guinea’s President, Alpha Condé, was overthrown after 11 years in power on September 5 2021, international commentators were quick to […]
PWYP expresses unwavering support to people and its members in Ukraine
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) condemns the invasion of Ukraine and stands in solidarity with its people and our members. The harrowing scenes of Ukrainians forced to flee their homes or to stand and fight, of their lives being upended or destroyed, and of their country being shattered, show extreme courage and personal sacrifice. The […]
Statement by the Civil Society Constituency of the EITI Board regarding the validation of the Philippines
As civil society representatives on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Board, we are deeply concerned that the EITI Board refuses to enforce rules in the EITI Standard that were developed specifically to safeguard civic space. The Philippines was validated in April 2021. A report submitted by local civil society involved in EITI outlined […]
2022: A year of celebration, connecting and looking ahead
In 2022, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) members and partners will celebrate, come together, reflect on the movement’s past and look to the future. 2022 is a significant year in the life of the global PWYP movement: it marks the 20th anniversary of the Publish What You Pay campaign and will be the year that […]
Civil society advocacy strengthens public oversight of oil and gas deals
In 2017, the Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative (LOGI), a civil society organisation member of PWYP, conducted an analysis of laws governing the recently developed oil and gas sector in Lebanon. This identified gaps in the legal framework that could enable corruption – in particular, risks arising from the secrecy of oil contracts and obscurity […]
Monitoring Energy Transitions in Eurasia: Analysis and Policy Implications
Post-Soviet countries have embraced the energy transition discourse, but how well did they perform so far? And what policy lessons can be learnt from their experiences? This report provides an overview of the status of non-conventional renewable energy sources (such as geothermal, wind, solar, biomass and small hydroelectric plants (IEA/IRENA 2019)), renewable energy targets and […]
Reversing the resource curse through legislative community development
Can we “reverse the resource curse” through legislative community development? This analyse, written by Brendan Schwartz, Kristi Disney Bruckner and Ahamadou Maiga for PWYP, gives crucial keys to answer this question. Download the analysis Despite decades of research and action to “reverse the resource curse”, progress has generally been mooted. Natural resource extraction continues to […]
Contract disclosure is key to tackling the corruption marring the extractive industries
It is clear that no country or sector is immune to corruption. However, according to the OECD, one in five cases of transnational bribery occur in the extractive sector. This is particularly concerning as we move to a low carbon world, requiring an equitable phase out of fossil fuels and accelerating the rush for minerals […]
Women’s rights in natural resource governance in West Africa: Encouraging efforts, timid progress
In 2019, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard incorporated a number of requirements making the process more gender sensitive. Three years on, how well have these new requirements been implemented in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Senegal? Have they encouraged more consideration of women’s rights in the natural resource extractive industry? What has changed for […]
Registering fossil fuels, a key ingredient for a fair energy transition
The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels will enable country governments to track and report information on fossil fuel reserves, along with historic and planned future fossil fuel production, and expressed in terms of the carbon dioxide embedded within each project and extraction site.
Transparency’s next frontier – Why extractive industry procurement should be a focus of civil society
It is remarkable how far the global movement for transparency in extractive industries has come. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is now at fifty-five member countries, and civil society has successfully pressured governments in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada to adopt laws requiring their headquartered mining and oil and gas companies report revenue […]
Women and Natural Resource Governance in West Africa
The Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie, an association of the parliaments of Francophone countries, recently revealed in a study entitled ‘The role of women in the French-speaking world’s extractive sector’ that a third of the world’s mineral reserves comes from Africa, including more than half of all rare minerals. For example, Guinea is home to […]