Publish What You Pay

New coalitions: RLIE, Tajikistan and Ukraine

August – The Global Steering Committee decide that the PWYP Secretariat, until then hosted by Open Society Foundation, should devolve and become its own independent entity and registered NGO. Plans are adopted to make this a reality by August 2015.

New coalitions: Togo

November – EU Accounting Directive is adopted, which obliges all EU Registered companies to publish what they pay.

June – EU Transparency Directive is adopted, which obliges all EU listed companies to publish what they pay.

May – A new EITI standard is adopted at the International EITI Conference in Sydney.

First meeting of the Global Steering Committee.

The PWYP Secretariat creates regional coordinator posts in Eurasia and Francophone Africa.

New coalitions: Madagascar

September: 10 year anniversary and launch of new strategy. Vision 20/20. New governance structure and membership criteria adopted by members. PWYP’s work officially moves beyond revenue transparency to all steps of the value chain.

New coalitions: Australia, Iraq, Philippines and Zimbabwe

August:Strategy Development Process launched.

May: Pan-Africa conference of PWYP members held in Kinshasa: a new governance structure, the PWYP Africa Steering Committee, is established.

New coalitions: Tanzania

June: President Obama signs into law Dodd-Frank 1504, which obliges all extractive US listed companies to publish their payments to the governments where they operate.

New coalitions: Burkina Faso, Zambia

New coalitions: Canada, Mali, Mozambique, Uganda

New coalitions: Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia

First major PWYP conference for civil society groups from Asia-Pacific, held in Indonesia.

New coalitions: DRC, Guinea, Gabon, Liberia, Norway, Niger, Mongolia and Mauritania

PWYP International Strategy Meeting in Olso, members agree on a new mission statement and governance structures, including formation of a Strategic Advisory Group.

New coalitions: Cameroon

First major PWYP pan-African capacity building workshop organised in Cameroon.

New coalitions: Azerbaijan, Chad, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and the United States

EU adopts a ‘Transparency Directive’ to harmonise minimum disclosure requirements for companies listed in the EU, includes non-binding language encouraging payment disclosure by extractive companies.

First PWYP coalitions launch in France and Congo-Brazzaville.

September: British PM Tony Blair announces EITI

June:Publish What You Pay campaign officially launched in London. CAFOD, Global Witness, Open Society Foundation, OXFAM, Save the Children and Transparency International are the six founding members.