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Moussa Iboun Conté
I am from a country deemed very resource rich – when we went to Burkina Faso for work, and we introduced ourselves as Guineans, everyone was saying “You come from a rich country – there are mineral resources, gold and diamonds”. I was really intrigued to see that there is so much attention paid to […]
Hannah Owusu Koranteng
I was trained as an agriculturist and have worked with farmers all my life. I started to see how mining competes with agriculture for land and how it devours community land. I also witnessed the differences in development and education – so many rural communities do not have a voice and do not understand what […]
Georges Mpaga
I’ve been strongly influenced by my experience working for social projects. For a decade I worked on issues related to youth health and the fight against AIDS. I saw the disease spread and the leaders mismanage the health services and there was a massive misappropriation of funds. I’ve seen people – directors, managers, powerful people […]
Cyrille Tipane
For me transparency isn’t just a job or a value, it is a way a of life. One of the things that motivates me in my work, is that in my environment, transparency isn’t an issue people talk about much. They ask themselves, ‘What’s transparency in the extractive industry? What’s the extractive industry?’ This makes […]
CSOs on EITI Board call for Myanmar to lift restrictions on civil society space
Statement from civil society EITI International Board representatives calling for restrictions on civil society space in Myanmar to be lifted On 2 July 2014, the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) admitted Myanmar as a candidate country following initial progress towards reform. However, we, the civil society members of the EITI International […]
Equatorial Guinea and EITI candidacy, slow but steady progress?
Far from the buoyant football stadiums hosting the Africa Cup of Nations, civil society groups gathered in Equatorial Guinea’s main cities, Malabo and Bata, to elect their representatives to the local EITI decision making body. PWYP was present during those unprecedented elections and reports back. The morning was long – and sweaty. The civil society […]
Equatorial Guinea – Behind the facade
The paradox of plenty is nowhere more obvious than in the small oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea. With a population of less than one million on which to spend its vast oil wealth, Equatorial Guinea should be a prosperous country with well looked after citizens. Instead, it is estimated that three quarters of Equatoguineans live […]
EITI and Azerbaijan: headed for divorce?
Just over a year ago at the tenth anniversary of the EITI I delivered an expose: Civil society and the EITI in Azerbaijan: blissfully married or on the rocks?. Pretending to be an Azeri marriage counsellor I presented a thorny state of marital affairs where the space for civil society to operate and play their […]
Ukraine to publish beneficial owners & other news (PWYP Update)
Read this issue of the PWYP newsletter! Articles include: In Brief How can EITI in DRC be made to effect lasting change? EITI and Azerbaijan : heading for divorce? Spotlight: PWYP Indonesia – a coalition that uses the data Who really owns a company? Ukraine to publish beneficial owners
How effectively is Congo B’s oil money being used? PWYP investigates
For more than a decade, arrests and intimidations notwithstanding, PWYP activists in Congo-Brazzaville have been campaigning to find out how much the country receives from its oil. Despite being in the top five oil producers of Sub-Saharan Africa, almost three quarters of the population are thought to live on less than $2 a day – […]
Good news from Canada and France in the last newsletter of 2014
Read this issue of our newsletter! Articles include: In Brief France adopts publish what you pay law Cautious success in Canada Indonesia – riding the wave of open data “Smart men run for the truth, not for money” Who were the transparency champions of 2014?
Canada passes anti-corruption measure for extractive companies
New anti-corruption measure for oil, gas and mining companies passes into law amidst cautions from civil society 17 December 2014 – Canada’s new law requiring oil, gas, and mining companies to annually report the taxes, royalties and other payments they make to governments passed into law on December 16th after receiving Royal Assent. Civil society […]