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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.
Making extractive sector governance work for development
PWYP has launched a three-year project to strengthen oversight of the extractive sector by civil society and communities in Iraq, Kenya and Lebanon In resource-rich countries, extractive sector revenues can change people’s lives. Spent well, they can fund huge improvements to infrastructure and services such as health care and education. But unless they are carefully […]
Tax and Transparency – How the Global Reporting Initiative Tax Disclosure Standard compares with global extractives transparency standards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) develops and supports implementation of global best practice through voluntary reporting by businesses and other organisations on their economic, environmental and social impacts though its Sustainability Reporting Standards. By doing this, it helps companies and others better assess, and address, their socio-environmental impact and promotes sustainable business practices. In December […]
EITI necessary for transparency and accountability reforms in Zimbabwe mineral resource governance
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Zimbabwe has noted with regret that the government of Zimbabwe is not keen to join the Extractive Transparency Industries Initiative (EITI). This is based on the newspaper article that was published in the Independent on the 31st of January 2020. The Minister of Finance in the 2019 Budget Statement mentioned […]
PWYP Secretariat Operational Plan 2020-2022
This Operational Plan lays out what the PWYP Secretariat is planning to prioritise in the period 2020 to 2022 to implement PWYP’s ambitious global strategy, Vision 2025: A People-centred Agenda for the Extractive Sector. The Plan also identifies what PWYP members and partners can expect of the Secretariat over that period. PWYP is in a […]
Transparency and the challenging path to accountability, lessons from Gwanda mining community
This is an extract from a blog, cross-posted from Mukasiri Sibanda’s website, which showcase the collaborative work of two PWYP coalitions – PWYP Zimbabwe and PWYP Canada. Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Gwanda Residents Association (GRA) and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Canada are currently working on a joint study, assessing the impact of Caledonia’s […]
Transparency dosage critical to help the fight against violence in artisanal and small-scale mining
As the government of Zimbabwe takes action to contain machete gangs who have wreaked havoc in almost every key gold producing areas in Zimbabwe, mining sector transparency reforms must not go under the policy radar. To a large extent, Publish What You Pay-Zimbabwe believes that opacity, the secretive way in which the mining sector operates […]
Resource Guide: 2020 SEC Rulemaking for Section 1504, U.S. Oil and Mining Anti-Corruption Rule
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a draft implementing rule for Section 1504, a key oil and mining anti-corruption law in the United States enacted with bipartisan support in 2010. The provision mandates regulations requiring all oil, gas, and mining companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose the […]
PWYP UK welcomes fifth UK EITI report, but has the UK fiscal regime been too generous to industry?
In December 2019, the United Kingdom’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) oversaw publication of the UK’s Kingdom’s fifth EITI report, covering calendar year 2018. Former Prime Minister Theresa May had written in 2018 in her foreword to the UK Government’s A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment (pages […]
SEC must strengthen draft anti-corruption rule
This was originally published by PWYP-US here. Download this statement as a press release For Immediate Release: December 18, 2019 Contact: Kathleen Brophy – [email protected] Mobile: 443-285-1563 SEC must strengthen draft anti-corruption rule Publish What You Pay — United States Director, Kathleen Brophy’s statement in response to today’s vote by the SEC to issue a proposed rule implementing […]
Time to act: Protect defenders who speak up against business impact on people and planet
On Human Rights Day, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights together with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and a group of civil society organizationsi are highlighting a key message from the recent UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (Geneva, 25-27 November 2019): that the international community must take concrete actions […]
Shining a Light on Extractive Sector Tax
PWYP is launching a new project in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda to promote transparency in tax flows from extraction and help people influence decisions on how revenues are spent The extraction of oil, gas and minerals has huge potential to improve people’s lives. In resource-rich countries, the extractive sector can be an important source of […]
IMF: Delay Vote on Equatorial Guinea Loan
Risk of Subsidizing Systemic Abuses, Corruption (Washington, DC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board should delay a planned December 2019 vote on a US$280 million loan agreement with Equatorial Guinea, eight human rights and good governance organizations and eight prominent experts said today in a letter to the IMF Executive Board. The program preceding the loan […]