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EITI necessary for transparency and accountability reforms in Zimbabwe mineral resource governance
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Zimbabwe has noted with regret that the government of Zimbabwe is not keen to join the Extractive Transparency Industries Initiative (EITI). This is based on the newspaper article that was published in the Independent on the 31st of January 2020. The Minister of Finance in the 2019 Budget Statement mentioned […]
Transparency and the challenging path to accountability, lessons from Gwanda mining community
This is an extract from a blog, cross-posted from Mukasiri Sibanda’s website, which showcase the collaborative work of two PWYP coalitions – PWYP Zimbabwe and PWYP Canada. Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Gwanda Residents Association (GRA) and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Canada are currently working on a joint study, assessing the impact of Caledonia’s […]
Resource Guide: 2020 SEC Rulemaking for Section 1504, U.S. Oil and Mining Anti-Corruption Rule
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a draft implementing rule for Section 1504, a key oil and mining anti-corruption law in the United States enacted with bipartisan support in 2010. The provision mandates regulations requiring all oil, gas, and mining companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose the […]
PWYP UK welcomes fifth UK EITI report, but has the UK fiscal regime been too generous to industry?
In December 2019, the United Kingdom’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) oversaw publication of the UK’s Kingdom’s fifth EITI report, covering calendar year 2018. Former Prime Minister Theresa May had written in 2018 in her foreword to the UK Government’s A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment (pages […]
SEC must strengthen draft anti-corruption rule
This was originally published by PWYP-US here. Download this statement as a press release For Immediate Release: December 18, 2019 Contact: Kathleen Brophy – [email protected] Mobile: 443-285-1563 SEC must strengthen draft anti-corruption rule Publish What You Pay — United States Director, Kathleen Brophy’s statement in response to today’s vote by the SEC to issue a proposed rule implementing […]
Civic Space in Equatorial Guinea – Information and Recommendations from civil society
The existence of an enabling environment for civil society – and particularly the ability for civil society to participate freely and actively in the EITI process as well as to contribute to debates about natural resources governance – is central to the EITI process. In line with EITI Requirement 1.3 civil society needs to be […]
Industry allies in the fight for transparency
Extractive companies join PWYP’s call for improved legislation as the EU’s transparency directive is reviewed In 2013, the European Union (EU) passed game-changing new transparency legislation amending its Accounting and Transparency Directives to require extractive companies to disclose their revenue payments to governments around the world. The legislation applies to oil, gas, mining and logging […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]