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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.
Factsheet: About Publish What You Pay – 2018
Setting out who Publish What You Pay is, the issues we face, what we want to achieve, what we do and where we work.
PWYP Annual Report 2016
2016 was a critical year for PWYP members to advance transparency and accountability in the extractive sector. The so-called “data revolution”, which is increasingly bringing financial information from extractive companies into the public domain, is enabling unprecedented scrutiny on revenues generated by oil, gas and mining operations. Our signature Data Extractors project trained members from […]
Why South Africa’s Extractive Sector Needs Greater Transparency
Case study of Sedibeng Iron Ore mine, by Tafadzwa L. Kuvheya South Africa is a major minerals producer and host to leading international mining companies. Mining accounts for approximately 18% of the national GDP. The costs and benefits of mining for South African communities, and the impacts of South African mining companies operating elsewhere in […]
Answering the How? Ploughing back 10% of revenues from mining companies: The case of Solwezi Municipal Council
On the 14 December 2015, Solwezi Municipal Council passed a resolution to “enhance service provision to communities affected by mining activities”. This resolution followed a proposal to invest property rates collected by the council from mining companies within mining host communities. It is against this backdrop that YAD working with Publish What You Pay Zambia […]
Publish What You Pay Eurasia Communique 26 – 28 September 2017
26 – 28 September 2017, twenty-five representatives of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP)coalitions in Eurasia met in Aktau, Kazakhstan to attend the 13th PWYP Eurasia Regional Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was: to receive a progress report from the PWYP Secretariat on the work undertaken since the previous Eurasia meeting in September 2016; […]
Putting extractives data to use: unpacking payments to governments’ reports
This post was originally posted by PWYP Canada on their website. In May/June of 2017 the first Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA) reports were publicly filed in Canada, which for the first time gave the public access to data on project level royalty, tax, and other payments made by oil, gas, and mining companies […]
Tunisians secure transparency gains, but economic development comes slower
In the cradle of the Arab Spring, continued discontent gives a PWYP member a reason to keep fighting History books will say the Arab Spring began in 2011, but the residents of Tunisia’s impoverished Gafsa region know better. In 2008, their revolt against opaque mining sector practices and government indifference prompted a violent backlash from […]
Beyond Transparency Investigating The New Extractive Industry Disclosures
Originally posted on Oxfam’s website In 2016, French companies extracting natural resources in developing countries made their payments to the governments of these countries public for the first time, detailing the payments for each of their projects. This is a significant step forward in terms of transparency in a notoriously opaque sector. Nevertheless, while the […]
Result of selection for alternate EITI CSO Board member
In August 2017, one of the five alternate civil society representatives on the International Board of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), Wendy Tyrrell from the Australian chapter of Transparency International, stepped down. In line with the civil society guidelines, an independent Nominations Committee, established by the PWYP Global Council at the end of 2015 […]
The Consensus Building Institute to facilitate independent review of civil society constituency guidelines in the EITI
Civil society representatives on the international Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a multi-stakeholder initiative founded in 2002 to foster greater transparency in the extractive sector, are pleased to announce their collaboration with the Consensus Building Institute over the coming six months to undertake an independent review of the EITI civil society constituency […]
Improving transparency in the European Union’s oil, gas and mining sectors
In 2013, the European Union (EU) passed new transparency legislation requiring large oil, gas, mining and logging companies listed and registered in the EU to disclose their revenue payments to governments around the world. The EU Accounting Directive requires reporting of EU-registered companies’ payments to governments on a country-by-country and a project-by-project basis (for each […]
Indigenous peoples lost a powerful advocate in Indonesia
Arif Munandar, a close partner of Publish What You Pay in Indonesia, held powerful corporations accountable through the use of technology. Arif Munandar practiced two kinds of activism: one loud, one quiet. There he was clutching a megaphone and a wad of documents, shouting down Southeast Asian environmental ministers gathered at a 2006 summit. There […]