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Moussa Iboun Conté
I am from a country deemed very resource rich – when we went to Burkina Faso for work, and we introduced ourselves as Guineans, everyone was saying “You come from a rich country – there are mineral resources, gold and diamonds”. I was really intrigued to see that there is so much attention paid to […]
Hannah Owusu Koranteng
I was trained as an agriculturist and have worked with farmers all my life. I started to see how mining competes with agriculture for land and how it devours community land. I also witnessed the differences in development and education – so many rural communities do not have a voice and do not understand what […]
Georges Mpaga
I’ve been strongly influenced by my experience working for social projects. For a decade I worked on issues related to youth health and the fight against AIDS. I saw the disease spread and the leaders mismanage the health services and there was a massive misappropriation of funds. I’ve seen people – directors, managers, powerful people […]
Cyrille Tipane
For me transparency isn’t just a job or a value, it is a way a of life. One of the things that motivates me in my work, is that in my environment, transparency isn’t an issue people talk about much. They ask themselves, ‘What’s transparency in the extractive industry? What’s the extractive industry?’ This makes […]
Assessing the Governance of EITI Multi-Stakeholder Groups
In 2014, MSI Integrity conducted the most comprehensive assessment of national-level MSG governance practices in the EITI that, to our knowledge, has ever been completed. The assessment included a review of all publicly available governance materials released by 41 EITI implementing countries.3 Beyond reviewing governance documentation, MSI Integrity also examined the actual governance practices of […]
CSOs on EITI Board call for Myanmar to lift restrictions on civil society space
Statement from civil society EITI International Board representatives calling for restrictions on civil society space in Myanmar to be lifted On 2 July 2014, the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) admitted Myanmar as a candidate country following initial progress towards reform. However, we, the civil society members of the EITI International […]
PWYP Indonesia on using project-level data
How has extractive project-level data been used at the subnational level? Publish What You Pay Indonesia has led a project to increase the capacity of local CSOs to use project-level EITI data for identifying governance issues on the revenue chain, as well as for raising public awareness on the importance of extractive industries transparency. Working […]
Equatorial Guinea and EITI candidacy, slow but steady progress?
Far from the buoyant football stadiums hosting the Africa Cup of Nations, civil society groups gathered in Equatorial Guinea’s main cities, Malabo and Bata, to elect their representatives to the local EITI decision making body. PWYP was present during those unprecedented elections and reports back. The morning was long – and sweaty. The civil society […]
Equatorial Guinea – Behind the facade
The paradox of plenty is nowhere more obvious than in the small oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea. With a population of less than one million on which to spend its vast oil wealth, Equatorial Guinea should be a prosperous country with well looked after citizens. Instead, it is estimated that three quarters of Equatoguineans live […]
EITI and Azerbaijan: headed for divorce?
Just over a year ago at the tenth anniversary of the EITI I delivered an expose: Civil society and the EITI in Azerbaijan: blissfully married or on the rocks?. Pretending to be an Azeri marriage counsellor I presented a thorny state of marital affairs where the space for civil society to operate and play their […]
Ukraine to publish beneficial owners & other news (PWYP Update)
Read this issue of the PWYP newsletter! Articles include: In Brief How can EITI in DRC be made to effect lasting change? EITI and Azerbaijan : heading for divorce? Spotlight: PWYP Indonesia – a coalition that uses the data Who really owns a company? Ukraine to publish beneficial owners
Video – All that glitters
Communities across the Philippines are not being given their say over whether extraction should take place. A lack of transparency and a lack of information mean they are not told of the negative consequences of mining, nor can they easily seek compensation once mining has started. BK-PWYP Philippines, PWYP’s affiliated coalition in the Philippines, wants […]