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Ba Aliou Coulibali
There isn’t a moment where I am not affected by what is happening in the extractive sector. Especially as my country, Mauritania, is a mining country. We have been exploiting iron and copper for over a half century. Two foreign companies are currently exploiting gold and produce about 15 tonnes of gold a year. With […]
Tuya Choijil
When Mongolia became a capitalist society extraction increased tremendously, especially with the government’s ‘gold program’. But this increase was too widespread and the benefits not clear. I saw the negative impact on the environment but decided to get involved so that local communities who were hurt by extraction could be heard – especially in order […]
Maryati Abdullah
I’m interested in transparency and accountability issues because it is very important to endorse good governance. There are lots of anti-corruption initiatives, but we also need more groundwork on the sectoral issue. I became interested in extractive transparency when I learned (for the first time) how the revenues of petroleum and mining were flowing from […]
Cielo Magno
Before joining Bantay Kita-PWYP Philippines, I worked on issues of taxation and corruption. I have been working on strengthening governance to improve transparency and accountability. I studied conflict situations in the Philippines and I knew that resource extraction is one area that breeds conflict with communities. I grabbed the opportunity I was given to join […]
Napoleon Sangawan jr.
I like to help communities. The communities don’t have a bridge to the government, but they can talk to us and tell us their needs and sentiments and we can help them have a dialogue or make petitions to be given to the government. It’s hard work, but when you are with the community and […]
ARTICLE 19, CIVICUS and Publish What You Pay submit letter to OGP on Azerbaijan
ARTICLE 19, CIVICUS and Publish What You Pay have submitted a joint letter to the steering committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) calling on them to ensure that civil society organisations can participate in and influence Azerbaijan’s OGP action plan. Azerbaijan is a member of the OGP – a multilateral initiative that promotes open […]
Chisomo Phiri
I think that my choice to work on this campaign relates to part of the culture with which I grew up. In African culture you grow up as an extended family and I think this is in part what motivated me to do the course I did – development studies. When I started working after […]
UK – Faulty industry disclosure guidance puts responsible companies at risk
Publish What You Pay condemns faulty industry disclosure guidance, which puts responsible companies at risk. Industry guidance for the UK Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations is currently being prepared by and on behalf of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). Key elements […]
Preparing to surf the data wave!
‘Avalanche’, ‘deluge’, ‘tidal wave’ – there’s been a range of monikers for the amount of extractive data that is to come out over the next few years. By 2016, the EU Transparency and Accounting Directives will have yielded all the payments by project-level for all the extractive companies listed (and large companies non-listed) in the […]
Are you for Big Oil or Big Data?
CSOs Put Limited Data to Good Use, Call for Project-Level Reporting What most profoundly distinguishes American Petroleum Institute (API) from civil society organizations in resource-rich countries working to make a more transparent and accountable extractives sector? (Hint: the answer we’re looking for is not “the ability to pay for an army of high-priced lawyers” – […]