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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.
Making DATA work for communities project
Citizens and communities in extractive areas have the right to know how their finite natural resources are governed. As more and more extractives data is opened to the public, the more challenging it becomes to make these disclosures relevant to local communities. On December 2014, the Philippines released its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) […]
Using UK company data as an accountability tool
After well over a decade-and-a-half of campaigning by the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) anti-corruption movement, oil, gas and mining companies are starting to report payments to governments under long-awaited mandatory disclosure rules. By 2019 an estimated 84% or more of the world’s 100 largest oil and gas companies, and at least 58% of the […]
Cameroon is losing millions a year due to tax exemptions
Cameroon is heavily dependent on its extractive industries, and places a particular emphasis on its oil sector. From 2007 to 2009, oil revenues represented more than 25% of its national budget. Even during the 2008 financial crisis, Cameroon kept its national oil revenue average going strong. Over the last five years, Cameroon has exported around […]
Organizations unite to call for Canada to take swift action to end secret companies
Canada must take this opportunity to demonstrate global leadership and implement a public, central registry of the beneficial owners of companies and trusts Ottawa, Canada – December 9th, 2016 Anonymous companies are the getaway vehicles of corruption. Today, over twenty diverse organizations from within and outside of Canada, unite to call on the Government of […]
Open Letter to the French Minister for the Economy and Finance on Open Data
Read the signed pdf version here Mr Michel Sapin, French Minister for the Economy and Finance, 139, Rue de Bercy 75012 Paris Dear Minister, As Publish What You Pay ‘Data Extractors’, we are writing as a group of civil society activists from around the world, united in our desire to use data from the oil, […]
Open Data: the extractive industries case study
Greater transparency is a first and necessary step in the fight against corruption. However, behind this concept of transparency, real issues of accessibility and data quality are at stake. Publishing data in itself is not enough if access is restricted and the format inoperable. To take the process of transparency all the way, this information […]
Extractives data: how the world has changed, and what lies ahead
We’re at the OGP summit in Paris demonstrating how the flurry of extractives data we have seen in the last few years can empower people. It remains difficult to get a full picture of company activities, due to a lack of comparable, openly available data; and an absence of certain data such as contracts. Through […]
Against All Odds – The perils of fighting for natural resource justice
All over the world there is an evident growing backlash against activists and campaigners who ask for a fair use of their countries’ natural resources. In 2015 alone 185 activists fighting to protect the environment and for transparency in oil, gas and mining, have been killed, including the high profile death of Berta Cáceres in […]
Natural Resources Justice Network pens UNESCO World Heritage Committee on oil exploration in Lake Malawi National Park
Lilongwe, Malawi, 17 November 2016: The Natural Resources Justice Network (NRJN) and its affiliated chapter of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Malawi have sent a letter to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee over concerns about the integrity of Lake Malawi National Park asking the Committee to take immediate action to protect the park and to […]
Read our interactive story: The Deadly Mines of Indonesia
Read the interactive version here It was a hot and humid July day in Sambutan, Indonesia. Junaidi, his brother Ramadhani and their neighbour Miftahul were running and shouting as they raced each other down dirt paths of the spiraling mining pit. Each child was trying to be the first to reach the enticing turquoise pool […]
5+ tools every Data Extractor needs to know
Asking why we need to use data is like asking why we fall in love or breathe. We need to use data for the simple reason that it’s available left, right and centre. As advocates, data scientists, government officials, campaigners, and ordinary citizens, we have the key to making meaningful change happen in our own […]