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DRC journalist determined to spread the word on natural resources
The PWYP coalition in DRC has been campaigning for years to increase understanding of EITI so that citizens can make better use of the initiative to improve the management of their natural resources. To this end, in a country the size of Western Europe with low internet and television penetration, the coalition has been training […]
Women of the East – a name that turned into a lifelong mission
The role of women in Central Asia has never been an easy one as they have had to take care of husbands, raise children and manage a household; many of them have had to do this while also living in poverty and being subject to society’s strict gender rules. Today, on top of this, women […]
Just model it! How PWYP members can develop a presentation of any oil project in 30 minutes
How much money will Chad see from its oil production and when? How sensitive is that to the wild fluctuations of market prices? And how does the money the government gets compare to what the oil companies get? These are some of the questions PWYP member GRAMPTC and the Berlin-based publisher OpenOil will address in […]
Mauritania to include the fishing sector in its implementation of EITI
The fishing sector will now be included in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The official announcement was made by the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mr Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, on 19 January 2015 in his opening speech at the high-level conference on “Transparency and Sustainable Development in Africa”. According to statistics […]
Tunisian civil society unites for a better tomorrow
The revolution of 2011 in Tunisia overthrew the government, coined the term ‘Arab Spring’ and spread revolutionary sentiment across borders. Another, perhaps less obviously dramatic, consequence of the Tunisian revolution has been the increase and strengthening of civil society organisations in the country. Prior to January 2011, CSOs were namely composed of organisations that acted […]
Sidibe Epouse Touré
We are not a poor country. With our natural resources we are a rich country. But where does the money go? There are gaps between what the companies pay and what the government receives. Civil society has to get involved to find this information, otherwise everything happens only between the companies and the governments and […]
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 […]