News and resources
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.
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 […]
Towards social-environmental transparency
The demand for socio-environmental information regarding extractive activities, in order to assess their real costs, inform the debate and strengthen public participation in decision-making on policies and mining, oil and gas projects is felt increasingly strong in Latin America. At the same time, several countries in the region are involved, in different stages and with […]
What I extracted from the PWYP data extraction workshop
In my quest to play a role in improved mineral revenue transparency in Zimbabwe, I applied to become a PWYP Data Extractor, a new project by Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) International. To kick the programme off, I joined the first data extraction workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2015. It gave me an in-depth […]
The Local Resource Curse: The symptoms in the Mining Area of Gafsa
Research on the resource curse has been mostly discussed as a state-level phenomenon; few studied have been conducted on local resource curse. This paper aims to contribute to the local resource curse literature through the identification of its symptoms in the mining area of Gafsa. Results reveal that this region suffers from a local resource […]
Position paper on mining reforms in Zimbabwe
That mining holds an important locus to Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is well known. Both government and the civil society in the country generally agree that if managed well, the abundant natural resources in the country have the ability to turn the economic fortunes of the country. The current government’s economic blue print the Zimbabwe Agenda […]
PWYP Indonesia publishes report on illicit financial flows and tax crime in the mining sector
According to a 2014 report from Global Financial Integrity entitled “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2003- 2012”, Indonesia ranks seventh of countries with the largest illicit financial flows (IFF). In 2014 IFF in Indonesia is estimated at a total of IDR 227.75 trillion ($20 billion), the mining sector contributes IDR 23.89 trillion ($2 billion), […]
The USA’s oil transparency rules: Worth the wait?
2,000 days. That’s longer than the First World War; longer than we have to wait between Olympic Games or between football World Cups; longer than Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush, Gerald Ford or JFK each were President of the USA (and almost exactly the same time as Nixon was in power). It’s even longer than […]
Transparency in mining: Large decline under the transitional government in Burkina Faso
Doubts expressed on the completeness and reliability of data Unjustified differences on export data Burkina Faso has just published its fifth report for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) covering the year 2013. The information in the report, prepared under the country’s transitional government, indicates that overall transparency in the sector has greatly decreased, thus […]
PWYP Zambia demands transparency of ultimate owners
PWYP Zambia Press Release – For immediate release 14th January, 2016 We, members of Civil Society Organizations in Zambia working on issues of extractive industries observed that on 8th – 9th December 2015 in Kiev, the Global Transparency Initiative which promotes good governance of natural resources – the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) – agreed […]