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Publish What You Pay Zambia 2015- 2017 Narrative Report
Detailing PWYP Zambia’s activities over the last two years. Including key activities, achievements, challenges and lessons learnt.
Read our interactive story: The Deadly Mines of Indonesia
Read the interactive version here It was a hot and humid July day in Sambutan, Indonesia. Junaidi, his brother Ramadhani and their neighbour Miftahul were running and shouting as they raced each other down dirt paths of the spiraling mining pit. Each child was trying to be the first to reach the enticing turquoise pool […]
Vision 20/20
In 2012 Publish What You Pay adopted a new strategy to reflect the growth over the first ten years of our history. The new strategy needed to represent PWYP’s evolution from working solely on revenue transparency to work along the whole extractive value chain, and our growth in membership, from 6 members about 10 years […]
Making the most out of Papua New Guinea’s first EITI report
An EITI candidate country since 2013, Papua New Guinea launched its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Report last month, on 30 March 2016. With large natural resource reserves, Papua New Guinea’s economy has been dominated by extractive activities since the 1970s, in particular the extraction of gold, oil, and copper. This industry now accounts […]
Proud past, bright future: PWYP activities report 2012-2015
The past four years have been extraordinary for PWYP. We have grown significantly and have become a global family of over 800 civil society organisations. In 41 countries we have PWYP-affiliated coalitions using the PWYP logo as a sign of excellence bound by governance and membership standards. We are united through our Vision 20/20 strategy […]
Our eye on the EITI future
The EITI has the potential to make a great contribution towards better natural resource governance. However, for that to happen, it needs to take a leap and turn from a transparency initiative into an accountability initiative. In this paper, PWYP presents its vision for where the EITI should be heading if it wants to deliver […]
Implementing Vision 20/20
In 2012, Publish What You Pay adopted the Vision 20/20 strategy and expanded its remit from revenue transparency to all steps of the value chain. One of the pillars of PWYP’s strategy is to “Publish What You Learn”. PWYP has therefore, on the occasion of its 2016 Global Assembly, sought to reflect on the work […]
Tunisian civil society unites for a better tomorrow
The revolution of 2011 in Tunisia overthrew the government, coined the term ‘Arab Spring’ and spread revolutionary sentiment across borders. Another, perhaps less obviously dramatic, consequence of the Tunisian revolution has been the increase and strengthening of civil society organisations in the country. Prior to January 2011, CSOs were namely composed of organisations that acted […]
Video – All that glitters
Communities across the Philippines are not being given their say over whether extraction should take place. A lack of transparency and a lack of information mean they are not told of the negative consequences of mining, nor can they easily seek compensation once mining has started. BK-PWYP Philippines, PWYP’s affiliated coalition in the Philippines, wants […]
Information is power – or how PWYP Côte d’Ivoire took good governance to the local level
It may be a cliché, but it still rings true that natural resources often prove a curse rather than a blessing to citizens. This is particularly the case for those communities living near extractive sites. Not only does wealth generated by extractive projects rarely trickle down to them, but they suffer all the disadvantages of […]
Lessons learned from Zimbabwe’s Alternative Mining Indaba
Zebbies Mumba, Gerald Mutale and Tommy Singongi, three representatives of PWYP Zambia attended Zimbabwe’s Alternative Mining Indaba which PWYP Zimbabwe helped organise. Here are some of the key lessons the Zimbabwean delegation took back with them: Talking matters – The Alternative Indaba was a key opportunity for community members’ to voice their opinions to parliamentarians, […]
The UK joins EITI – a second chance to get it right?
Last week, the UK was accepted as a candidate country to EITI – in 18 months, British citizens should have a report that details how much money the government received from the extractive sector and how much companies paid. It’s a shame that the EITI wasn’t born in the 1970s before the oil revenues started […]