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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 […]
PWYP at the OGP Summit
The OGP Summit 2019 is taking place this week in Ottawa, Canada, and many PWYP members will be there to highlight key PWYP messages and priorities! You can find the agenda for the OGP Summit here and below you can find some the relevant PWYP and extractives sessions. Relevant PWYP events Tuesday 28 May – Civil Society […]
PWYP Data Extractors Programme Evaluation Report
This is a report of the findings from a learning focused evaluation of Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) innovative Data Extractors’ (DE) programme. The programme, supported by the Omidyar Network, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Oxfam Denmark, was a direct response to the publication of the first mandatory disclosure (‘payments to governments’) reports […]
UK financial regulator confirms oil, gas and mining companies must name government entities receiving their payments
In 2016 UK-incorporated and London Stock Exchange (LSE)-traded oil, gas and mining companies began to publicly disclose their payments to governments annually under the European Union Accounting and Transparency Directives and UK national law. The regulations require companies to file reports that are disaggregated and granular, providing data both on each country where the company […]
PWYP in Africa should intensify its work to advance the Africa Mining Vision
With members in 26 African countries, the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition is one of the biggest and most widespread CSO networks working on mineral governance issues in Africa. PWYP members are an important factor in the influence and continuing growth of citizens’ pressure on African governments and mining companies for accountability in the […]
PWYP Open Data Position
Publish What You Pay aligns its Open Data Position with the Open Definition, which can be summed up in the statement: Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness) PWYP offers this Open Data position for its coalitions to use […]