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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.
Citizens’ groups use revenue disclosures to advocate for local service funding
Story of Change Fees charged to mining companies for land use are a significant source of income for local authorities in Zambia. The Zambian Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition discovered that a legal loophole had been enabling some mining companies to avoid paying land-use fees. These lost revenues affect the authorities’ ability to provide […]
EITI civil society board members express disappointment in decision not to progress complaint against company board member
Read the EITI civil society board member’s latest statement here. In February 2021, PWYP-US submitted a complaint to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board, alleging the involvement of an EITI Board member of the company constituency in lobbying efforts which undermined mandatory oil and mining transparency requirements in the United States. PWYP-US argued that […]
PWYP Annual Report 2020
2020 was highly anticipated at Publish What You Pay (PWYP), as the first year of implementing our new five-year strategy, Vision 2025. The strategy defines our people-centred agenda for the extractive sector through four goals: to make PWYP better informed, more influential, widely heard and well connected across our network. But Covid-19 shifted the ground […]
Fair Share? Shining a light on the extractive industries fiscal regimes in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda
Taxation is seen as one of the most sustainable sources of revenue for governments, with the potential to contribute to investments in basic services and to enhance the social contract between citizens and their government. Our new synthesis research report explores the fiscal regimes in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda and how they can be improved […]
The Publish What You Pay Global Council strongly condemns the arrest of Man Zar Myay Mo, EITI advocate in Myanmar, and calls for his immediate release.
On the morning of June 8th, Man Zar Myay Mo was shot and detained at a roadblock whilst he travelled to a meeting and he is currently being detained at Northwest Division Military Headquarters. There are serious concerns for his safety. Along with the Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA), Man Zar Myay Mo […]
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 […]