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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.
PWYP Annual Report 2019
2019 was a landmark year for the PWYP movement. It with the adoption of our Vision 2025 strategy at the PWYP Global Assembly in Senegal, where 250 members and partners joined together to share experiences, generate ideas and strengthen our network. And we ended it – after seven regional consultations, involving over 200 members – […]
Adapting to COVID-19 in Africa’s Extractives Sector
PWYP members in East and Southern Africa are calling on resource-rich countries to give direct support to extractive communities and adopt progressive tax regimes in response to the pandemic As COVID-19 infection rates climb across Africa, the continent is taking decisive measures to minimise the pandemic’s impact on its people. Many African countries already have […]
Imagining PWYP climate action
Consultation with PWYP members Webinar series and consultation paper Initial discussions have started amongst a number of PWYP members to imagine what coordinated PWYP climate action could look like. So far, a small group of coalitions have outlined and discussed initial ideas for a PWYP global statement on these issues and potential areas of work […]
Niger: 100-day detention of three activists highlights deterioration of freedom of expression
This article was prepared by Amnesty International (here), which allowed us to publish it on the PWYP site. We invite you to take action using this letter, which we have prepared with Amnesty, as a template for reaching out to relevant local and regional contacts. Authorities in Niger should drop trumped-up charges and immediately release […]
Beyond revenue transparency
PWYP members call for better reporting under EU law of the impact of extractive companies on people and the planet Large oil, gas and mining companies listed on stock exchanges in the European Union are required by law to disclose information about their environmental and social policies and practices, how they ensure respect for human […]
Black Lives Matter: a watershed moment in the fight against racism
As a global movement, PWYP stands against any forms of racism and intolerance. We also acknowledge that there is always more we can do to combat it and be more inclusive. The abhorrent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is a watershed in the history of institutionalised racism in the United States: a history stretching […]
Finding New Ways to Drive Change
The coronavirus pandemic means adapting PWYP’s ways of working, while continuing to focus on our long-term goals, says Chenai Mukumba, Chair of PWYP’s Global Council The COVID-19 pandemic means we must all do things differently. For Publish What You Pay (PWYP), it means we need to adapt our ways of working, so we can continue […]
Oxfam’s top three recommendations for mining companies during the COVID-19 crisis
This is a guest blog from Oxfam US and an excerpt from an Oxfam policy brief. The current crisis has taken a major economic toll on the mining sector, with mineral prices falling precipitously. At the same time, for workers and community members living near mine sites the COVID-19 crisis presents extraordinary health and safety […]
PWYP members’ experiences of closing civic space
Consultation report for 2019 To understand members’ experiences more fully and identify their challenges and needs around civic freedoms, the PWYP Secretariat carried out in-depth profiling of the situation in two countries: Niger and the Republic of the Congo. We then carried out an online survey to find out more about members’ experiences facing increasingly […]
Civic space: Strategic Framework 2020-2022
Civic space: a ground-breaking road map for addressing threats to civic space in the extractive sector PWYP’s Strategic Framework on civic space for 2020-2022 provides a road map for addressing threats to civic space in the extractive sector, in particular those faced by PWYP members. Natural resource activists campaigning against the harmful impact of extraction, […]
Rebels with a cause – a lesson in courage
In 2019, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) recognised the need to develop a long-term strategic approach on civic space, to support the work of our 700 members. Many of them work in increasingly difficult conditions and face growing threats in response to their commitment to transparency and justice in the extractive industries. In 2020, the […]
Senegal: Ndeye Marie Diedhiou – The “female warlord” of resources in Casamance
Impact Story Senegal is increasingly positioning itself as a country with rich natural resources, in light of the significant deposits already being mined – phosphates, gold, zircon and iron – or quarried, alongside recent discoveries of oil and gas. As a result, the government is aiming to make the sector one of the pillars of […]