PWYP’s advocacy agenda is expansive and reflects PWYP’s belief that transparency needs to be pursued through diverse but complementary mechanisms. PWYP recognises that all stakeholders that play a role in supporting or investing in the extractive industries have a responsibility to act to increase transparency. 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.

Local civil society’s growing interest in domestic monitoring and activism has led to an enormous demand for training and capacity-building around EITI processes, contracting and taxation regimes, auditing and accounting processes, IFI lending and disclosure policies, as well as a wide range of other issues, including more recently, expenditure-side work to track revenues from government coffers to point of destination.

Since the inception of PWYP in 2002, local and international actors have collaborated to conduct a series of national and regional trainings to meet these increasing needs. All of these trainings have typically come about in one of two ways: either local groups decide to organize a training workshop based on local needs, and reach out to international NGOs and donors who then help identify and facilitate the participation of outside experts on particular issue areas of interest or; outside actors such as the World Bank decide to organize a training, often around EITI, for a particular region, and the PWYP network then helps develop the agenda and identify participants.

This work has been supported financially and substantively by the network of PWYP members and donors. The following capacity building programs are being organized by PWYP members: