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Towards a transparent and accountable mineral resources governance framework
PWYP Zimbabwe have published a compendium of research papers on key mining related matters in Zimbabwe. Rampant corruption in the mineral sector threatens to erode the potential the sector has been contributing to economic recovery and drive socio-economic development in Zimbabwe. This compendium presents abridged versions of research papers from Publish What You Pay Zimbabwe […]
Using UK company data as an accountability tool
After well over a decade-and-a-half of campaigning by the Publish What You Pay anti-corruption movement, oil, gas and mining companies are starting to report payments to governments under long-awaited mandatory disclosure rules. Although the voluntary Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has resulted in a growing body of available payment data since 2003, company disclosures on […]
Third report on the monitoring of public investments in the health sector in Congo-Brazzaville
Third report on the monitoring of public investments in the health sector (year 2015): Only 27% of payments reached their planned destination Pointe Noire, February 14th 2017 – Publish What You Pay-Congo (PWYP Congo) has published its third report on the implementation of planned public investments in the health budget for the year 2015. The […]
Sapin II: a very opaque transparency bill in France
Between 2012 and 2014, France was considered a champion of corporate transparency by its European peers. In 2013, the French Parliament passed a law setting a public country-by-country reporting (CBCR) for banks which likely influenced the vote for the EU Capital Requirements Directives (CRD) a few months later. Public CBCR is widely seen as an […]
Sapin II: a very opaque transparency bill in France
Data-driven stories outlined how the reporting voted in Parliament could have allowed companies such as Total to hide a large part of their activities Public reporting requirements in France and the opportunity for a stronger transparency bill Between 2012 and 2014, France was considered a champion of corporate transparency by its European peers. In 2013, […]
US Congress votes down anti-corruption rule
This week, United States legislators chose to relinquish their country’s leadership role in the global oil, gas and mining transparency movement by undoing a landmark anti-corruption rule. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed a motion to roll back the bi-partisan Cardin-Lugar provision, also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act Section […]
Open Message from PWYP Global Coalition to US-listed EITI Companies
Download the full statement here. Open message from Publish What You global coalition To US-listed EITI-supporting companies: Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, ArcelorMittal, Barrick Gold, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Conoco Philips, Eni, Exxon Mobil, Freeport-McMoran, Glencore, Goldcorp, Gold Fields, Hess Corporation, Hudbay, Iamgold, Kinross, Kosmos Energy, Marathon Oil, Newmont Mining, Noble Energy, PEMEX, Petrobras, Rio Tinto, […]
This move by the US Congress is good for Exxon, bad for everyone
One of President Trump’s best tools to “drain the swamp” is under threat from his own side. A mere four days after he took office, Republican Congress members began attacking a key piece of anti-corruption legislation. This rule, the Cardin-Lugar provision (also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act), was a bipartisan effort to […]
Talking transparency with a seat at the table
On the same day that Transparency International released its Corruption Perception Index 2016 that ranked Lebanon 136th out of 176th most corrupt countries for the 2nd consecutive year, Lebanon’s Cabinet of Ministers announced that the government intends to adopt the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative. A positive step towards improving the governance of Lebanon’s extractives sector, […]
Extractive companies publish worldwide payments under UK law
Mandatory reporting by oil, gas and mining companies under European Union country-by-country disclosure laws began in the UK and France in 2016. Key aspects of the reporting requirements – which have equivalents in Norway, Canada and the USA – are especially useful in preventing corruption: granularity (disaggregation by project and by recipient government entity); comprehensiveness […]
Using UK company data as an accountability tool
After well over a decade-and-a-half of campaigning by the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) anti-corruption movement, oil, gas and mining companies are starting to report payments to governments under long-awaited mandatory disclosure rules. By 2019 an estimated 84% or more of the world’s 100 largest oil and gas companies, and at least 58% of the […]
Open Letter to the French Minister for the Economy and Finance on Open Data
Read the signed pdf version here Mr Michel Sapin, French Minister for the Economy and Finance, 139, Rue de Bercy 75012 Paris Dear Minister, As Publish What You Pay ‘Data Extractors’, we are writing as a group of civil society activists from around the world, united in our desire to use data from the oil, […]