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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.
Statement: Civil society crackdown undermines Equatorial Guinea’s ongoing efforts to re-join EITI
Statement on Equatorial Guinea – Suspension of CEID – Statement PWYP is extremely concerned about the suspension of a leading independent civil society organisation, Centro de Estudios e Iniciativas para el Desarrollo (CEID), in Equatorial Guinea by the Minister of Interior who is also the country’s first Vice Prime Minister. Under an order issued by […]
Joint Statement: Africa Mining Vision: CSOs and government make progress to develop the African Mineral Governance Framework
Statement prepared by: Tax Justice Network-Africa, Publish What You Pay, Southern Africa Resource Watch, and Oxfam Monday 28th March, 2016 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The ongoing collapse of mineral prices on the international market, growing debt crisis and dwindling revenue to finance socio-economic development in African countries has refocused attention on how to optimally use […]
Lebanese MPs recommend joining the EITI: a step welcomed with cautious optimism by civil society
On March 22, the Lebanese Parliament’s energy committee issued a recommendation to the government to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) with the aim to enhance transparency and accountability in Lebanon’s oil and gas sector. Through this effort Lebanese officials are signalling that Lebanon is serious about adopting transparency measures in its petroleum industry […]
Extractivism in Latin America: the violations of rights
Latin America is at a crossroads. Either measures are put in to transition from the extractive model on which the region has become increasingly dependent in recent decades, or the situation in the region will become completely unsustainable in social, environmental and climatic terms, and even in fiscal and economic terms. The high prices of […]
Proud past, bright future: PWYP activities report 2012-2015
The past four years have been extraordinary for PWYP. We have grown significantly and have become a global family of over 800 civil society organisations. In 41 countries we have PWYP-affiliated coalitions using the PWYP logo as a sign of excellence bound by governance and membership standards. We are united through our Vision 20/20 strategy […]
Our eye on the EITI future
The EITI has the potential to make a great contribution towards better natural resource governance. However, for that to happen, it needs to take a leap and turn from a transparency initiative into an accountability initiative. In this paper, PWYP presents its vision for where the EITI should be heading if it wants to deliver […]
Implementing Vision 20/20
In 2012, Publish What You Pay adopted the Vision 20/20 strategy and expanded its remit from revenue transparency to all steps of the value chain. One of the pillars of PWYP’s strategy is to “Publish What You Learn”. PWYP has therefore, on the occasion of its 2016 Global Assembly, sought to reflect on the work […]
Extractive industries in a resource and climate constrained world
Two weeks ago, a prominent international initiative on transparency in the extractive sector gathered in Lima, Peru. This was the first time that the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has met in Latin America for its global conference since the initiative was founded in 2003. Last week, a high profile environmental and indigenous rights activist, […]
New breed of artisanal diamond data miners is born
The need for skills in gathering diamond data has always been a great necessity for poor, relocated and disinherited communities in Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe, a border province about 400 kilometres from the capital Harare. Manicaland is the country’s wealthiest province in term of diamond revenue. On Friday 26 February 30 community members who have […]
Can EITI make a difference in Angola?
More than a year has passed since the creation of an inter-ministerial working group to evaluate the possibility of Angola joining EITI (‘working group’), and there is still no information on what the outcome of this evaluation is, or whether a decision has been reached. Progress on this front is no doubt being closely monitored […]
Statement: EITI Governance Failures Threaten Independent Civil Society
Yesterday in Lima, on the eve of the 2016 Global EITI conference, more than 100 civil society representatives took a principled stance to boycott the members’ meeting, the highest governing body of the EITI. The impetus for the boycott was the improper and illegitimate interference in civil society’s right to self-selection of their representatives to […]
The call for a responsive EITI
The strength of the EITI lies in its ability to adapt and become relevant to each context, enabling countries to focus on what is most necessary to them for good governance. In Colombia’s case for example, what was essential in order for EITI to realise its potential, generate a debate about the use of natural […]