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London Summit marks progress on extractives trading transparency
Leaders and politicians from more than 40 countries, as well as business people and NGOs, joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron in London today for the Anti-Corruption Summit. Leaders included Nigerian President Buhari, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Their goal was to discuss and agree ways to jointly expose and […]
The London Anti-Corruption Summit: a key opportunity for extractives trading transparency
Government leaders gather in London this week to attend UK Prime Minster David Cameron’s Anti-Corruption Summit. Publish What You Pay and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are calling on the UK and other participating governments to ensure that the Summit addresses one of the largest remaining areas of corruption risk in oil, gas and […]
Digging Deeper into the Panama Papers in Indonesia
The Panama Papers, with their revelation of 140 world politicians having offshore companies in 21 tax havens, have caused an uproar in Indonesia as they have exposed a number of influential people from Indonesia. The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million secret document obtained from the leak of Mossack Fonseca’s communication server. The […]
Australian Government commits to implementation of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia welcomes the announcement by the Australian Government to implement the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). “This announcement sees Australia take a positive and long overdue step to addressing transparency in the extractives sector” said PWYP National Coordinator, Jessie Cato. “PWYP Australia believes disclosure of payments made to governments is […]
Azerbaijan: Civic space in focus as country is listed as ‘inactive’ by OGP
Publish What You Pay (PWYP), ARTICLE 19 and CIVICUS welcome yesterday’s unprecedented decision by the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) to list Azerbaijan as ‘inactive’. Through this decision, the OGP – a voluntary initiative promoting government transparency and accountability – reaffirms how vital civil society is for an open government and the […]
Press freedom violations threaten transparency in extractive sector
Today, 3 May, is World Press Freedom Day, a day set by the United Nations to highlight the important role of the press and journalists worldwide. “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through […]
EITI and mining governance in Cameroon: between rhetoric and reality
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standard among other things prescribes reporting of sub national revenue transfers and social expenditures of extractive companies in conciliation reports. This study is based on the findings of research conducted by RELUFA on sub national revenue transfers and social expenditures in Cameroon. The exploitation of some natural resources in […]
PWYP and others urge action on oil, gas and minerals trading at London Anti-Corruption Summit
PWYP, NRGI, Global Witness, Christian Aid, the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), the UNCAC Coalition, SwissAid, Berne Declaration and others have written to UK Prime Minister David Cameron. We are urging him to ensure that the 12 May Anti-Corruption Summit in London addresses one of the major remaining areas of opacity and corruption […]
Making the most out of Papua New Guinea’s first EITI report
An EITI candidate country since 2013, Papua New Guinea launched its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Report last month, on 30 March 2016. With large natural resource reserves, Papua New Guinea’s economy has been dominated by extractive activities since the 1970s, in particular the extraction of gold, oil, and copper. This industry now accounts […]
EITI in Papua New Guinea: pros and cons
Background Papua New Guinea was admitted as an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Candidate country on 19 March 2014. This came about as part of a condition for an ADB loan the Papua New Guinea Government wanted to take out as a partial credit guarantee to participate in the Papua New Guinea to Queensland Gas […]
Martyn’s rice field diary
Manila is a five hour flight on a Boeing 737 tracking north-west into South East Asia from the western Pacific coast of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Both the Philippines and Papua New Guinea have names starting with the letter “p” and are classed as Middle Income Countries by the World Bank but that is […]
The UK publishes its first EITI report
On 15 April the United Kingdom published its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) report, after being an EITI candidate country since 2014. The report provides, for the first time, and for calendar year 2014, a detailed public breakdown of taxes, licence fees and other payments made to the UK government by 71 named oil, […]