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Civil society advocacy strengthens public oversight of oil and gas deals
In 2017, the Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative (LOGI), a civil society organisation member of PWYP, conducted an analysis of laws governing the recently developed oil and gas sector in Lebanon. This identified gaps in the legal framework that could enable corruption – in particular, risks arising from the secrecy of oil contracts and obscurity […]
Towards genuine climate justice : learning from COP26 and shaping PWYP’s role
I attended COP 26 in Glasgow earlier this month. This was the first time PWYP took part in a global climate conference since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was ratified in 1994 – a few years before PWYP was even born. This COP was highly anticipated as a key moment to […]
Burmese activist Kyaw Minn Htut must be released
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is highly concerned by reports of the arrest of Kyaw Minn Htut, a Burmese human rights and environment activist engaged in the promotion of transparency and accountability in the extractive industries in Myanmar, and a member of the Myanmar EITI MSG. It is reported that on September 6 2021, at […]
Ghana must condemn attacks on civil society members
The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Africa Steering Committee calls on the Ghanaian government to urgently, swiftly and categorically condemn recent attacks on civil society members in the national media ; and to ensure that all civil society actors are able to speak freely on issues pertinent to the good governance of natural resource sector, […]
Empowering communities to use data for accountability in mining
Story of change In the Philippines, the Bantay Kita-Publish What You Pay Philippines coalition (BK-PWYP) identified that EITI data could be useful in helping indigenous communities to demand their share of royalty payments from mining on community land. But making data accessible would not in itself create change. BK-PWYP realised that it needed to understand communities’ […]
Africa Conference Report 2021
The 2021 PWYP Africa Conference considered how the resource governance movement can build resilience and collaborate for impact in Africa, in the face of big global challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and energy transition, and threats on civic space. The conference, held every three years, is the principal space for PWYP members, along […]
Citizens’ groups use revenue disclosures to advocate for local service funding
Story of Change Fees charged to mining companies for land use are a significant source of income for local authorities in Zambia. The Zambian Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition discovered that a legal loophole had been enabling some mining companies to avoid paying land-use fees. These lost revenues affect the authorities’ ability to provide […]
Billions in company payments failing to improve lives in Niger Delta, new study shows
The hundreds of millions of dollars multinational energy companies pay every year towards development in the Niger Delta are having negligible impact on people’s lives or environmental protection, a new study co-authored by civil society organisations Policy Alert (Nigeria), Publish What You Pay (PWYP) UK, has found. The report, “What’s in It for Us?” […]
Registration to PWYP Africa Conference 2021
This event took place in March 2021. You can find here the links to the conference’s sessions recordings and the report presenting highlights of the three-day meeting. Download the report Adapting for resilience and collaborating for impact on natural resource governance 24 and 25 March The 2021 PWYP Africa Conference will consider how the […]
Urgent statement on civic space in Iraq, Kazakhstan, Honduras and other countries
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) believes that civic participation and unrestricted civil society are a prerequisite for a world where the extractive industries benefit, and do not harm, people. As we enter a new year of continuing health, economic and climate crises, a strong civil society remains a bedrock of recovering and moving forward. As […]
From laws to implementation – civil society advocacy helps secure US$20 million for communities affected by mining
Story of Change In 2015, following an intensive campaign by civil society, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted a new mining code requiring mining companies to pay 1 per cent of their gross revenues to a community development fund. By July 2019, more than 12 billion Central African Francs (CFA), around US$20 million, had been […]
PWYP Members in Niger finally released. Now their charges must be dropped.
After spending six months in jail on fabricated charges, three members of the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) movement in Niger were released on bail, following a concerted campaign by civil society groups around the world. On 29 September 2020, Maïkoul Zodi was granted bail by a senior judge in Niger’s capital, Niamey. The […]