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Lebanese MPs recommend joining the EITI: a step welcomed with cautious optimism by civil society
On March 22, the Lebanese Parliament’s energy committee issued a recommendation to the government to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) with the aim to enhance transparency and accountability in Lebanon’s oil and gas sector. Through this effort Lebanese officials are signalling that Lebanon is serious about adopting transparency measures in its petroleum industry […]
Statement: EITI Governance Failures Threaten Independent Civil Society
Yesterday in Lima, on the eve of the 2016 Global EITI conference, more than 100 civil society representatives took a principled stance to boycott the members’ meeting, the highest governing body of the EITI. The impetus for the boycott was the improper and illegitimate interference in civil society’s right to self-selection of their representatives to […]
The call for a responsive EITI
The strength of the EITI lies in its ability to adapt and become relevant to each context, enabling countries to focus on what is most necessary to them for good governance. In Colombia’s case for example, what was essential in order for EITI to realise its potential, generate a debate about the use of natural […]
What I extracted from the PWYP data extraction workshop
In my quest to play a role in improved mineral revenue transparency in Zimbabwe, I applied to become a PWYP Data Extractor, a new project by Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) International. To kick the programme off, I joined the first data extraction workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2015. It gave me an in-depth […]
PWYP Indonesia publishes report on illicit financial flows and tax crime in the mining sector
According to a 2014 report from Global Financial Integrity entitled “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2003- 2012”, Indonesia ranks seventh of countries with the largest illicit financial flows (IFF). In 2014 IFF in Indonesia is estimated at a total of IDR 227.75 trillion ($20 billion), the mining sector contributes IDR 23.89 trillion ($2 billion), […]
The USA’s oil transparency rules: Worth the wait?
2,000 days. That’s longer than the First World War; longer than we have to wait between Olympic Games or between football World Cups; longer than Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush, Gerald Ford or JFK each were President of the USA (and almost exactly the same time as Nixon was in power). It’s even longer than […]
Transparency in mining: Large decline under the transitional government in Burkina Faso
Doubts expressed on the completeness and reliability of data Unjustified differences on export data Burkina Faso has just published its fifth report for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) covering the year 2013. The information in the report, prepared under the country’s transitional government, indicates that overall transparency in the sector has greatly decreased, thus […]
PWYP Zambia demands transparency of ultimate owners
PWYP Zambia Press Release – For immediate release 14th January, 2016 We, members of Civil Society Organizations in Zambia working on issues of extractive industries observed that on 8th – 9th December 2015 in Kiev, the Global Transparency Initiative which promotes good governance of natural resources – the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) – agreed […]
Call for greater transparency in Papua New Guinea
7 January 2016 The Papua New Guinea Resource Governance Coalition (PNGRGC) is calling for greater transparency from the government and the extractive industries through the disclosure of information related to the value chain of PNG’s natural resource extraction. “Informing communities about the importance of knowing their rights to resource projects and benefit sharing is especially […]
First EITI report in Ukraine – a golden opportunity
The launch of the first ever published EITI report in Ukraine in December 2015 offered a golden opportunity to look back at the progress accomplished so far and to look ahead at the actions still needed to generate genuine openness and accountability in the Ukrainian oil, gas and mining sectors. In recent times, Ukraine has […]
Climate change and the extractive industries – a campaign by PWYP Cameroon
The PWYP coalition in Cameroon is calling for EITI standards to include climate change By publishing an encyclical on the protection of nature protection, Pope Francis wanted to offer the world a contribution of the Church to solve the ecological crisis that humanity is currently facing. He has invited national Civil Society Organisations involved in […]
Mining and climate change: what is the impact of mining activity on climate change?
On the margins of COP21, as part of the “Climate Generations” space, civil society from Burkina Faso organised a session to address the impact of mining on climate change. The coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) in Burkina Faso, Jonas Hien, had made the trip with several coalition members to highlight this problem. Consistent […]