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Explore our publications on a wide range of topics, to find the powerful facts, stories and approaches that underpin our work to make the extractive industry more open, accountable and participatory.
Financing the Military in Myanmar: Analysis of Gas Revenues
Since seizing power in February 2021, the Myanmar military has faced widespread allegations of human rights violations. Companies operating in Myanmar must make challenging decisions about how to responsibly navigate the crisis. International oil companies, including energy majors Total and Chevron, are under particular scrutiny as the military regime continues to sustain itself with revenues […]
Open Government Week: Shining a Light on Contract Transparency
This week open government champions are taking part in hundreds of events around the world driven by a simple, core aim: that citizens should have greater participation in their governments. Open Gov Week is a critical moment for government leaders, civil society advocates and citizens to promote the accountable, responsive and inclusive governments that the […]
Positioning Publish What You Pay on the energy transition
A managed decline of fossil fuel production is necessary to tackle the climate crisis and to create long-term prosperity. The transition to low carbon energy can contribute towards a resilient post-pandemic recovery, secure sustainable development, improve air quality and biodiversity, and benefit citizens. However, without a concerted and organized effort by civil society, the energy transition risks being both inadequate and unfair, undermining economic benefits and livelihoods, […]
How our global movement can fight a global crisis
Economies which rely heavily on fossil fuels for their revenues could collapse in the shift to a low carbon future. This can only be averted by an energy transition which puts people first – and PWYP can help make this happen. This week, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) adopted global positions on the energy transition. […]
“What’s in It for Us?” An action-research case study of Nigeria’s extractive industries
AN ACTION-RESEARCH CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA’S EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES Nigeria’s 65 years of oil and gas production have made it Africa’s largest producer. With almost 40 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, its economy is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon exports. Operating extractive companies including subsidiaries of Chevron, CNOOC (China), Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell Plc […]
Billions in company payments failing to improve lives in Niger Delta, new study shows
The hundreds of millions of dollars multinational energy companies pay every year towards development in the Niger Delta are having negligible impact on people’s lives or environmental protection, a new study co-authored by civil society organisations Policy Alert (Nigeria), Publish What You Pay (PWYP) UK, has found. The report, “What’s in It for Us?” […]
Registration to PWYP Africa Conference 2021
This event took place in March 2021. You can find here the links to the conference’s sessions recordings and the report presenting highlights of the three-day meeting. Download the report Adapting for resilience and collaborating for impact on natural resource governance 24 and 25 March The 2021 PWYP Africa Conference will consider how the […]
Urgent statement on civic space in Iraq, Kazakhstan, Honduras and other countries
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) believes that civic participation and unrestricted civil society are a prerequisite for a world where the extractive industries benefit, and do not harm, people. As we enter a new year of continuing health, economic and climate crises, a strong civil society remains a bedrock of recovering and moving forward. As […]
Radically Different: Gender justice in natural resource governance
Join our webinar series! On 25 January 2021, the Gender Justice and Extractive Industries Working Group is launching a webinar series over two weeks, exploring different policy areas related to women’s rights, the extractive industries, and gender issues. Topics include the gendered impact of oil pipelines in Peru and East Africa, how to use extractives […]
What Might Our Movement’s Future Look Like Given the COVID-19 Pandemic?
In late October 2020, as a second wave of COVID-19 swept across the Northern Hemisphere – and it became clear that the disruption from the pandemic would be long lived – the PWYP Secretariat hosted a global conversation to stress-test our movement’s global Vision 2025 strategy. Vision 2025 was adopted by PWYP members in 2019. […]
Transparency, Participation and Accountability in Kazakhstan
An action-research case study of the extractive industry Two giant oil and gas fields in Kazakhstan that major European oil companies have invested in are high cost projects with few public benefits, a comprehensive new report from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) members and coalitions in three countries has found. Local communities say their health […]
From laws to implementation – civil society advocacy helps secure US$20 million for communities affected by mining
Story of Change In 2015, following an intensive campaign by civil society, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted a new mining code requiring mining companies to pay 1 per cent of their gross revenues to a community development fund. By July 2019, more than 12 billion Central African Francs (CFA), around US$20 million, had been […]