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Introducing Publish What You Pay’s Global Strategy 2020-2025
We are grassroots activists taking on one of the most powerful industries in the world. And despite the odds, this movement has achieved great things, and continues to grow. In 15 years, we went from being a handful of civil society activists to today’s thriving global coalition, with 700 member organisations in over 50 countries, […]
The mining champions of Mongolia, and yet another reminder of what makes our movement powerful
I recently travelled to Mongolia to see first-hand the hard work of PWYP members and their inspiring achievements. There is a way to go for Mongolia’s mining sector to become truly accountable and benefit all its people. Nevertheless, what I saw on this trip was impressive indeed: a shining example of what committed, effective and […]
PWYP Eurasia members meet in Azerbaijan
26 – 27 September 2018, forty representatives of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalitions in Eurasia met in Baku, Azerbaijan to attend the 14th PWYP Eurasia Annual Regional Meeting. The objectives of the meeting: Strengthen the effective trans-national coordination of PWYP coalitions across Eurasia Discuss the PWYP draft Strategy for 2020-2025 including the Global […]
PWYP MENA members renew their commitment to fight for a world where all citizens benefit from their natural resources
On 11 – 12 July, 2018, 9 representatives of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalitions from the MENA region met in Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the 4th PWYP MENA Regional Meeting. Objectives of the Meeting To re-activate engagement of PWYP members in the MENA region To prepare for the PWYP Global Assembly and to […]
EITI Guide: Leveraging the EITI for reform in oil, gas and mining governance
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) stands or falls on the strength of its civil society component. Only with well-coordinated, inclusive and influential civil society participation will EITI reports inform public debate and lead to improved governance in the extractive sector. Civil society input underpins success throughout the EITI process, from consulting communities affected by […]
Exploring PWYP’s future position on the extraction of oil, gas and natural minerals
The Future of Extraction El futuro de la extracción L’avenir de l’extraction Будущее добывающей مستقبل الاستخراج As part of the process to establish Publish What You Pay’s Global Strategy from 2020-25 we are are reflecting on key questions which are likely to have significant impact on the way oil, gas and natural minerals are exploited […]
Factsheet: About Publish What You Pay – 2018
Setting out who Publish What You Pay is, the issues we face, what we want to achieve, what we do and where we work.
PWYP Annual Report 2016
2016 was a critical year for PWYP members to advance transparency and accountability in the extractive sector. The so-called “data revolution”, which is increasingly bringing financial information from extractive companies into the public domain, is enabling unprecedented scrutiny on revenues generated by oil, gas and mining operations. Our signature Data Extractors project trained members from […]
Publish What You Pay Eurasia Communique 26 – 28 September 2017
26 – 28 September 2017, twenty-five representatives of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP)coalitions in Eurasia met in Aktau, Kazakhstan to attend the 13th PWYP Eurasia Regional Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was: to receive a progress report from the PWYP Secretariat on the work undertaken since the previous Eurasia meeting in September 2016; […]
New reporting mechanism adds local procurement to the global transparency agenda
In the extractives sector, the procurement of goods and services is usually the single largest in-country payment type that a mine site will make over the lifespan of a project, regularly exceeding 70% of total expenditure (see World Gold Council, Responsible gold mining and value distribution, 2013 data for indicative figures). This means that it […]
Publish What You Pay Africa meets for its 6th conference
Over 100 delegates are expected to participate in this year’s Africa Conference of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) network from the 11th to the 13th of July 2017 in Livingstone, Zambia. At the top of the agenda will be how to make oil, gas and mineral wealth work for communities across the African continent. […]
Community data literacy for demand driven change
The need for this pilot stemmed from the realisation that calls by CSOs and CBOs for improved transparency and accountability in the management of mineral wealth tends to generally overshadow the use of available data to demand accountability. There was also the realisation that publicly available data from local sources, such as local government budgets […]