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PWYP’s advocacy agenda is expansive and reflects PWYP’s belief that transparency needs to be pursued through diverse but complementary mechanisms. This understanding forms the basis of our advocacy agenda detailed below.

As the global movement to promote transparency and accountability in the extractive industries has gained momentum over the past few years, there has been a parallel explosion in the number of civil society groups demanding company and government transparency in resource-rich developing countries. Around the world, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) members have mobilized to monitor and research their countries’ extractive regimes and budget processes and reach out to governments, companies and international financial institutions to advocate for greater revenue and expenditure transparency.

PWYP’s identity as a truly global network gives us broad access to decision-makers in many different arenas. The PWYP international secretariat is committed to ensuring that this network remains strong and unified in purpose, by regularly sharing information, best practices and lessons learned across the world. This may also be done through peer-to-peer exchanges, allowing national memberes to benefit from the knowledge and expertise that exist within the network.

The growing desire to monitor the payments, revenues and expenditures within the extractives sector has also generated an increasing need for technical training around these issues – from contracting and taxation regimes, auditing and accounting processes, EITI processes, rules and polices – to, more recently, expenditure-side work to track revenues from government coffers to point of destination.

PWYP collaborates with local and international actors to organize training workshops, conferences and seminars to help meet these needs.

Part of the additional value of the PWYP global network is the solidarity it provides to civil society operating in difficult environments. Over the years, network members have worked together to lift restrictions placed on individual campaigners, and have mobilized support to safeguard the role of civil society in public debate and decision-making around the management of natural resource revenues.

This work has been supported financially and substantively by the network of PWYP members and donors. The following capacity building programs have been organized byPWYP members in the past: