Sierra Leone

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NACE is Disappointed: We Call on the President’s Office to Recall the Petroleum Bill
Practice of Due Diligence in Passing the Bill is absent

NACE has been following with keen interest the processes and procedures that culminated in the passing of the New Petroleum Bill into Law. The rapidity with which the Bill was passed in Parliament underscores the numerous concerns by civil society organisations about poor due diligence and secrecy associated with the operations of the Petroleum Resources Sector within the Office of the President. The Act passed on July 12, 2011 defies the minimum procedure meant for any bill to be tendered for a parliamentary debate. NACE questions the procedure the Office of the President used to tender the Petroleum Bill for discussion in Parliament.

View in PDF the posters NACE has been disseminating around Sierra Leone to popularize EITI

Nous, membres des Organisations de la Société Civile des Républiques du Congo‐Brazzaville, du Congo Démocratique, de la Côte d’Ivoire, du Ghana, de Guinée‐Conakry, du Libéria, du Mali, de Sierra Léone, et des États‐Unis et les leaders communautaires guinéens des zones minières de Fria, Kindia, Léro, Sangarédi et

On Friday, April 17th 2009, ECOWAS Ministers of Mines and Industries met in Abuja to adopt the Draft ECOWAS Mining Directive after a two-day meeting of experts from Member States.

The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF), which includes numerous members of the Publish What You Pay coalition put out the following press statement.

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

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The National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE) a civil society coalition with a membership of fifteen organizations active across the country has been immersed in a three days workshop geared towards increasing its capacity and contextualizing the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) process in a bid to make it relevant to our situation.

Adopted at a public forum on EITI in freetown

We, representatives of citizens groups in Sierra Leone, organized under the banner of the National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE), meeting at a public forum organized at our instance, with the support of DFID, on September 23, 2006 at Hotel Cabenda, Freetown;

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