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Making extractive sector governance work for development
PWYP has launched a three-year project to strengthen oversight of the extractive sector by civil society and communities in Iraq, Kenya and Lebanon In resource-rich countries, extractive sector revenues can change people’s lives. Spent well, they can fund huge improvements to infrastructure and services such as health care and education. But unless they are carefully […]
PWYP Secretariat Operational Plan 2020-2022
This Operational Plan lays out what the PWYP Secretariat is planning to prioritise in the period 2020 to 2022 to implement PWYP’s ambitious global strategy, Vision 2025: A People-centred Agenda for the Extractive Sector. The Plan also identifies what PWYP members and partners can expect of the Secretariat over that period. PWYP is in a […]
Transparency and the challenging path to accountability, lessons from Gwanda mining community
This is an extract from a blog, cross-posted from Mukasiri Sibanda’s website, which showcase the collaborative work of two PWYP coalitions – PWYP Zimbabwe and PWYP Canada. Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Gwanda Residents Association (GRA) and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Canada are currently working on a joint study, assessing the impact of Caledonia’s […]
Shining a Light on Extractive Sector Tax
PWYP is launching a new project in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda to promote transparency in tax flows from extraction and help people influence decisions on how revenues are spent The extraction of oil, gas and minerals has huge potential to improve people’s lives. In resource-rich countries, the extractive sector can be an important source of […]
10 years of the Africa Mining Vision
The AMV was adopted in February 2009 and turned 10 years old this year. After all these years since its adoption, what have been the successes, challenges and opportunities for implementing the AMV agenda? It is against this background that the PWYP Africa Steering Committee jointly hosted a meeting in collaboration with the Southern Africa […]
PWYP Secretariat progress against the 2016-2019 Business Plan
In June 2019 the PWYP Secretariat commissioned independent consultant Brendan O’Donnell to conduct an evaluation of its work in line with its 2016 – 2018 Business Plan. This was to assess Secretariat progress made against the plan and inform the development of the next Secretariat plan. The evaluation was informed by desk research and 26 […]
Fighting for Informed Community Choices
Cathy Turner, PWYP’s new Director of Advocacy and Learning, met PWYP campaigner Gulnara Isbasarova in Kyrgyzstan, and was inspired by her achievements, what drives her and her ideas for bolstering women’s roles in our movement. A proud pastoral tradition still prevails in the bold, mountainous landscape of Kyrgyzstan’s Talas region. Half a day’s drive from […]
PWYP Annual Report 2018
Consolidating progress: defining our shared vision for an accountable and inclusive extractives sector PWYP Trustee’s Annual Report and Financial Accounts 2018 for the period ended 31 December 2018 2018 was a pivotal year both for the PWYP Secretariat and for the global PWYP movement. We entered the final year of our 2016-18 business plan, which […]
Reflecting on the latest EITI global conference: to build trust, the EITI must keep evolving
The 2019 EITI Global Conference took place last week in Paris under the slogan: “Open Data, Build Trust”. As always, it was a pleasure and an inspiration to come together with hundreds of fellow participants from across the PWYP coalition. On behalf of all the individuals and organisations who power our movement, we called on […]
What are our key priorities at the EITI Conference in Paris?
Next week thousands of civil society members, and companies’ and governments’ representatives, will gather in Paris for the EITI Conference 2019. Citizen participation and civic space will be high on the agenda for PWYP. PWYP will call for greater women’s participation and inclusion, strong implementation of the new EITI requirement on contract transparency and a […]
Turning aspiration into action: Openly committing to gender equal natural resource governance
Fighting for women’s economic empowerment, political participation and combating gender-based violence – all which are aggravated by a gender blind natural resource sector.
In it together: advancing women’s rights through the extractive industries transparency movement
It is well documented that extractive projects can have dire gender consequences given that women usually have the most to lose (in terms of loss of land or livelihoods, increase in gender-based violence etc.) and the least to gain from the process of extraction in the communities where they occur and in the country as […]