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Equatorial Guinea: Leading human rights organisation forced to shut down, despite government pledge to improve civil society participation and join global oil and gas accountability initiative
A group of civil society organisations* condemn the move and call for the immediate reinstatement of the organisation Today, Publish What You Pay, Oxfam America, Natural Resource Governance Institute, Global Witness, EG Justice and LOGI Lebanon* firmly condemned the unwarranted dissolution of the Center for Studies and Initiatives for the Development (CEID), a prominent and […]
Harnessing the Media: Exploring the Extent that Municipal Newspapers are Covering Stories on Mining, Oil, and Gas Tax Payments in Alberta, Canada
In light of PWYP’s efforts to promote training, learning, and access to information by citizens, the question arises: To what extent are insights from disclosure reports being shared and understood by communities who host mining, oil, and gas projects in Canada? This project set out to contact journalists at Canadian municipal newspapers with the aim […]
New EITI Civil Society Board members join the EITI International Board
New EITI Civil Society Board members were selected to join the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for the three-year term June 2019-2022 at the EITI Conference in Paris on 17 June 2019. The new composition of the CSO representation on the EITI Board is: Jean Aimé Brice Georges Mackosso Commission Diocesaine Justice […]
Equatorial Guinea: A Move to Rejoin Anti-Corruption Group
Repression at Odds with Extractive Industry Watchdog’s Requirements (Paris) – Equatorial Guinea is seeking to rejoin a group that works to curb corruption in resource-rich countries, Human Rights Watch, EG Justice, and Publish What You Pay said today. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) requires transparency around oil, gas, and mining revenue and activities and respect for civil society. […]
Democratic Republic of Congo: Jean Claude Katende, leader of the fight for human rights and transparency, facing death threats
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) calls on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo to make every effort to ensure the safety of Jean-Claude Katende after he received highly concerning death threats. On Monday, 24 June 2019, Jean Claude Katendé filed a complaint against unknown to the Provincial Police Commissioner of the city of […]
Reflecting on the latest EITI global conference: to build trust, the EITI must keep evolving
The 2019 EITI Global Conference took place last week in Paris under the slogan: “Open Data, Build Trust”. As always, it was a pleasure and an inspiration to come together with hundreds of fellow participants from across the PWYP coalition. On behalf of all the individuals and organisations who power our movement, we called on […]
Protecting Civic Participation ?
Unless the EITI does more to combat growing constraints on civic space, the fight for transparency will never be won The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was created in 2002 to strengthen governance of the oil, gas, and mining sectors by increasing transparency over revenues. The initiative aims to identify, collect and publish key data about […]
What are our key priorities at the EITI Conference in Paris?
Next week thousands of civil society members, and companies’ and governments’ representatives, will gather in Paris for the EITI Conference 2019. Citizen participation and civic space will be high on the agenda for PWYP. PWYP will call for greater women’s participation and inclusion, strong implementation of the new EITI requirement on contract transparency and a […]
Turning aspiration into action: Openly committing to gender equal natural resource governance
Fighting for women’s economic empowerment, political participation and combating gender-based violence – all which are aggravated by a gender blind natural resource sector.
In it together: advancing women’s rights through the extractive industries transparency movement
It is well documented that extractive projects can have dire gender consequences given that women usually have the most to lose (in terms of loss of land or livelihoods, increase in gender-based violence etc.) and the least to gain from the process of extraction in the communities where they occur and in the country as […]
PWYP at the OGP Summit
The OGP Summit 2019 is taking place this week in Ottawa, Canada, and many PWYP members will be there to highlight key PWYP messages and priorities! You can find the agenda for the OGP Summit here and below you can find some the relevant PWYP and extractives sessions. Relevant PWYP events Tuesday 28 May – Civil Society […]
PWYP Data Extractors Programme Evaluation Report
This is a report of the findings from a learning focused evaluation of Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) innovative Data Extractors’ (DE) programme. The programme, supported by the Omidyar Network, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Oxfam Denmark, was a direct response to the publication of the first mandatory disclosure (‘payments to governments’) reports […]