Depuis sa création en 2002, la coalition « Publiez ce que vous payez » a réussi à mettre sur le devant de la scène la nécessité d’une gestion plus claire des revenus issus des industries minières, pétrolières ou gazière dans les pays en développement. Des avancées ont été réalisées mais sur le terrain, la bataille est loin d‘être gagnée.

The PWYP International Conference took place from November 16 – 18, 2009 in Montreal, Canada.

The conference was attended by accredited media from the press, television and radio.

Plusieurs organisations de la société civile burkinabè ont mis en place, le 11 avril 2009, un réseau pour plus de transparence dans l’exploitation minière. Adoption des statuts et règlement intérieur, élection du bureau, c’est ce à quoi se sont attelés les participants à l’assemblée générale constitutive tenue à Ouagadougou.

Dénommé réseau “Publiez ce que vous payez-Burkina Faso” (PCQVP), il est un regroupement d’organisations de la société civile burkinabè. Le réseau PCQVP a pour objectif ultime de “promouvoir une gestion transparente des revenus miniers” au Burkina Faso.

La industria extractiva debe “mejorar su nivel de transparencia informativa” de acuerdo con nuevos estándares voluntarios que se adopten según Ian Gary, experto de Oxfam América y miembro de la organización Publish What you Pay.

Para Gary, que participó año ayer en unas jornadas en el Congreso de los diputados, de lo que se trata es “desvelar el dinero” que se surge de estas industrias y así fomentar un debate sobre como se usa el mismo, según manifestó a Servimedia.

El representante de Oxfam remarcó la necesidad de que los estados, oraganismos internacionales y entidades finan

Several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have launched a petition against corruption. The petition calls for the European Commission and EU Member States to propose legislation and mechanisms to fight corruption, in particular in EU relations with third countries.

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is pleased to see that of its five substantive points, the petition lists actions on transparency and revenue disclosure in the extractive industries.

During the 4th EITI Global Conference in Doha, Qatar, members of the PWYP coalition were honoured to share a photo with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia. During her speech at the opening of the conference, President Johnson-Sirleaf voiced her support for the activities of PWYP, for which we are most grateful.

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf with the PWYP Coalition

As part of an intense campaign by Intermón Oxfam and FRIDE the Spanish media has begun to engage with issues surrounding EITI and the resource curse. During the fourth EITI Global Conference in Doha, Qatar, on 16-18 February and at the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Week in Washington on 3-5 March, numerous articles appeared in the Spanish press.

Publish What You Pay applauds the efforts of Intermón Oxfam (a PWYP member) and FRIDE in raising the critical issue of transparency in the extractive industries with the Spanish government and the public in general.

This article was originally published on page 10 of Pretoria News on September 22, 2008

South African oil workers Dan Laarman and Robert Berrie have been released after a mercifully short period as hostages in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta.

They, and most of the world, were probably unaware of the devastating impact the oil industry has had on Africa.

In 2001 Washington called for a major diversification of US oil supplies away from the politically volatile Persian Gulf to “friendlier” sub-Saharan Africa.

WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (OneWorld) – It’s time to shed light on the way U.S. companies in charge of oil, gas, and mining operations in developing countries are spending their money, according to testimony at two Capitol Hill hearings Wednesday.

Many countries with vast oil and mineral wealth experience a “resource curse,” because “competition for control of these resources has more often fuelled corruption and inequality than growth and development,” said Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, speaking at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Africa Subcommittee.