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Australia to move ahead with implementation of the EITI standard
Since becoming PWYP Australia’s National Coordinator almost a year ago, I have been frequently been asked ‘What on earth is happening in Australia?’ It’s a fair question for many of my overseas colleagues; in fact it’s a question that has been echoed by many Australians. In just five years we’ve had four Prime Ministers, numerous […]
London Summit marks progress on extractives trading transparency
Leaders and politicians from more than 40 countries, as well as business people and NGOs, joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron in London today for the Anti-Corruption Summit. Leaders included Nigerian President Buhari, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Their goal was to discuss and agree ways to jointly expose and […]
The London Anti-Corruption Summit: a key opportunity for extractives trading transparency
Government leaders gather in London this week to attend UK Prime Minster David Cameron’s Anti-Corruption Summit. Publish What You Pay and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are calling on the UK and other participating governments to ensure that the Summit addresses one of the largest remaining areas of corruption risk in oil, gas and […]
Australian Government commits to implementation of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia welcomes the announcement by the Australian Government to implement the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). “This announcement sees Australia take a positive and long overdue step to addressing transparency in the extractives sector” said PWYP National Coordinator, Jessie Cato. “PWYP Australia believes disclosure of payments made to governments is […]
EITI and mining governance in Cameroon: between rhetoric and reality
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standard among other things prescribes reporting of sub national revenue transfers and social expenditures of extractive companies in conciliation reports. This study is based on the findings of research conducted by RELUFA on sub national revenue transfers and social expenditures in Cameroon. The exploitation of some natural resources in […]
PWYP and others urge action on oil, gas and minerals trading at London Anti-Corruption Summit
PWYP, NRGI, Global Witness, Christian Aid, the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), the UNCAC Coalition, SwissAid, Berne Declaration and others have written to UK Prime Minister David Cameron. We are urging him to ensure that the 12 May Anti-Corruption Summit in London addresses one of the major remaining areas of opacity and corruption […]
EITI in Papua New Guinea: pros and cons
Background Papua New Guinea was admitted as an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Candidate country on 19 March 2014. This came about as part of a condition for an ADB loan the Papua New Guinea Government wanted to take out as a partial credit guarantee to participate in the Papua New Guinea to Queensland Gas […]
The UK publishes its first EITI report
On 15 April the United Kingdom published its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) report, after being an EITI candidate country since 2014. The report provides, for the first time, and for calendar year 2014, a detailed public breakdown of taxes, licence fees and other payments made to the UK government by 71 named oil, […]
Statement: Civil society crackdown undermines Equatorial Guinea’s ongoing efforts to re-join EITI
Statement on Equatorial Guinea – Suspension of CEID – Statement PWYP is extremely concerned about the suspension of a leading independent civil society organisation, Centro de Estudios e Iniciativas para el Desarrollo (CEID), in Equatorial Guinea by the Minister of Interior who is also the country’s first Vice Prime Minister. Under an order issued by […]
Lebanese MPs recommend joining the EITI: a step welcomed with cautious optimism by civil society
On March 22, the Lebanese Parliament’s energy committee issued a recommendation to the government to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) with the aim to enhance transparency and accountability in Lebanon’s oil and gas sector. Through this effort Lebanese officials are signalling that Lebanon is serious about adopting transparency measures in its petroleum industry […]
Can EITI make a difference in Angola?
More than a year has passed since the creation of an inter-ministerial working group to evaluate the possibility of Angola joining EITI (‘working group’), and there is still no information on what the outcome of this evaluation is, or whether a decision has been reached. Progress on this front is no doubt being closely monitored […]
Statement: EITI Governance Failures Threaten Independent Civil Society
Yesterday in Lima, on the eve of the 2016 Global EITI conference, more than 100 civil society representatives took a principled stance to boycott the members’ meeting, the highest governing body of the EITI. The impetus for the boycott was the improper and illegitimate interference in civil society’s right to self-selection of their representatives to […]