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Publish What You Pay Africa meets for its 6th conference
Over 100 delegates are expected to participate in this year’s Africa Conference of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) network from the 11th to the 13th of July 2017 in Livingstone, Zambia. At the top of the agenda will be how to make oil, gas and mineral wealth work for communities across the African continent. […]
Azerbaijan: Transparency Group Delays Reinstatement
The Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) - a voluntary initiative promoting government transparency and accountability – decided on June 28, 2017 to extend Azerbaijan’s “inactive” status in the initiative for another year.
10 Questions I have after reading Malawi’s first EITI report
Malawi’s first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative report was submitted to the Multi-Stakeholder Group in April by the Independent Administrator Moore Stephens. Last month, I shared the top 10 insights I gleaned from the report and this month I highlight 10 sets of questions that I have after reading the report. I hope to follow up […]
Community data literacy for demand driven change
The need for this pilot stemmed from the realisation that calls by CSOs and CBOs for improved transparency and accountability in the management of mineral wealth tends to generally overshadow the use of available data to demand accountability. There was also the realisation that publicly available data from local sources, such as local government budgets […]
Publish What You Pay Zambia 2015- 2017 Narrative Report
Detailing PWYP Zambia’s activities over the last two years. Including key activities, achievements, challenges and lessons learnt.
10 Things I Learned From Malawi’s First EITI Report
A few days ago, Moore Stephens submitted the final version of Malawi’s first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative report to the Multi-Stakeholder Group. This means I have had a chance to already read through the first report and decided over the next month to share 10 things I learned, 10 recommendations made and 10 questions I […]
Hundreds of mining, oil and gas companies reveal payments to governments for the first time, in Canada and around the world
Ottawa, Canada – June 8th, 2017 Today, Publish What You Pay-Canada welcomes the public disclosure of hundreds of reports detailing payments to governments by Canadian extractive companies. For most companies, this represents the first time these payments have been made public. “With more than 1200 Canadian-listed extractive companies operating in over 100 countries, the disclosure […]
Three years after ‘win-win’ negotiations, Niger still losing out to Areva
In 2014, Niger announced that it had successfully renegotiated uranium extraction contracts with the French multinational group, Areva. While the negotiations were hailed as being a “win-win” for both Areva and the people of Niger, analysis of newly published information from Areva has called into question if indeed the benefits are mutual. Given that it […]
Raising Global Standards of Transparency in the Extractives Sector
A guest blog by Eleni Chatzivgeri, Lynsie Chew, Louise Crawford, Martyn Gordon and Jim Haslam. The new mandatory rules for large and publicly listed extractive companies according to the EU Accounting Directive (transposed as UK SI 3209) represent a significant step forward in terms of mandatory transparency reporting for the extractives sector. Our report into […]
Taking away the tax effect of tax havens
Cross border taxation methods and reverse tax credit This report introduces the reader to a much-neglected area of international taxation, tax credits, and shows how a more active utilization of tax credits and one of its accompanying features, withholding tax, can fix some of the issues we have with multinational companies not paying taxes. In […]
PWYP condemns the arrest of Ali Idrissa
Update 20/05/2017: Ali Idrissa was released on Saturday evening. Publish What You Pay (PWYP) condemns the arrest of Mr. Ali Idrissa, coordinator of PWYP Niger and of the Niamey-based civil society organisation Rotab. Mr. Idrissa was arrested at his home in Niamey by 10 Nigerien armed policemen at 5 pm today. The arrest follows a […]
Opening Australia’s extractive data for development
Tracking Australian mining, oil and gas companies around the world is challenging. Australia has one of the largest global footprints of extractives companies operating abroad. Research by Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia and ESG research house CAER in September 2016 found that the 22 Extractives Industries Companies on the ASX 200 had a presence […]