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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 […]

Equatorial Guinea: Leading human rights organisation forced to shut down, despite government pledge to improve civil society participation and join global oil and gas accountability initiative

A group of civil society organisations* condemn the move and call for the immediate reinstatement of the organisation  Today, Publish What You Pay, Oxfam America, Natural Resource Governance Institute, Global Witness, EG Justice and LOGI Lebanon* firmly condemned the unwarranted dissolution of the Center for Studies and Initiatives for the Development (CEID), a prominent and […]

New EITI Civil Society Board members join the EITI International Board

New EITI Civil Society Board members were selected to join the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for the three-year term June 2019-2022 at the EITI Conference in Paris on 17 June 2019. The new composition of the CSO representation on the EITI Board is: Jean Aimé Brice Georges Mackosso Commission Diocesaine Justice […]

Equatorial Guinea: A Move to Rejoin Anti-Corruption Group

Repression at Odds with Extractive Industry Watchdog’s Requirements (Paris) – Equatorial Guinea is seeking to rejoin a group that works to curb corruption in resource-rich countries, Human Rights Watch, EG Justice, and Publish What You Pay said today. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) requires transparency around oil, gas, and mining revenue and activities and respect for civil society. […]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Jean Claude Katende, leader of the fight for human rights and transparency, facing death threats

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) calls on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo to make every effort to ensure the safety of Jean-Claude Katende after he received highly concerning death threats. On Monday, 24 June 2019, Jean Claude Katendé filed a complaint against unknown to the Provincial Police Commissioner of the city of […]

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 […]

Protecting Civic Participation ?

Unless the EITI does more to combat growing constraints on civic space, the fight for transparency will never be won The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was created in 2002 to strengthen governance of the oil, gas, and mining sectors by increasing transparency over revenues. The initiative aims to identify, collect and publish key data about […]

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 […]

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 […]

Selection of Civil Society Representatives on the International EITI Board (2019-2022)

Version française ici | Русская версия здесь Seeking Civil Society Representatives for the EITI International Board (2019-2022) The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard promoting the open and accountable management of oil, gas, and mineral resources. The International Board, the EITI’s main governing body, is comprised of 21 representatives from the various Constituencies […]

Prominent human rights defender under serious threats to his life in Equatorial Guinea

French version here, Spanish here A group of human rights and anti-corruption civil society organisations* is appalled by the illegal detention and house arrest of human rights defender Alfredo Okenve Ndoho on the same day that he was supposed to receive the Franco-German Human Rights Award at a ceremony organised by the French Embassy in […]

Environmental Reporting: Key to Transparency

As the EITI Standard is being revised this month, it must make environmental transparency a requirement It’s there in the name. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) works to promote the transparency needed to prevent corruption, mismanagement and waste, so everyone can benefit from natural resources and no one is harmed by extraction. The need […]