Publications/reports
The Maputo Declaration - Moving from Transparency to Accountability
Eastern and Southern Africa Meeting
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8 – 11 May. Maputo, Mozambique.
We, as coalition members of Publish What You Pay from 12 Eastern and Southern African countries, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, met under the auspices of Publish What You Pay (PWYP), on the theme of moving from transparency to accountability.
Piping profits: the secret world of oil, gas and mining giants
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Ten of the world’s most powerful oil, gas and mining companies own 6,038 subsidiaries and over a third of them are based in secrecy jurisdictions, a new Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Norway report today reveals.
Secrecy jurisdictions facilitate illicit financial flows, to which the developing world loses US$1 trillion a year.
Bulletin ROTAB n26 (PCQVP Niger)
Lisez le bulletin ROTAB-PCQVP Niger n26 (mars 2012) (PDF)
Dans ce numéro:
“Le bilan de 40 ans d’exploitation de l’uranium est catastrophique”
Commercialisation des produits pétroliers nigeriens – les premières difficultés pointent
Répartition des revenus miniers et pétroliers – Les collectivités sur la paille
How EU transparency legislation would reinforce the EITI
Thirty-five countries are now implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative,1 shortly to be joined by the United States. The UK, which launched the EITI in 2002, is a “supporting country” which does not produce EITI reports itself.
The EITI aims to provide citizens of resource-rich countries with an accurate picture of revenue flows to their governments from oil, gas and mining companies.
Dispute over local-national government revenue distribution in Indonesia
Local PWYP-Indonesia members support Judicial Review to address revenue-sharing between national and local governments.
On 28 February 2012, local PWYP-Indonesia member, Mr. Carolus Tuah travelled from his home town in East Kalimantan, to attend a constitutional court hearing of a lawsuit filed by local groups against the Republic of Indonesia’s Law No.
PWYP Uganda engages in analysing Petroleum Bills
By Winfred Ngabiirwe, Executive Director, GRA. Chairperson PWYP-U
In February 2012, the Government of Uganda tabled two bills before parliament and sent them to the Committee on Natural Resources for scrutiny and review and opened them to the public for comments.
The missing pieces in Iraq’s first EITI report
The next few months are an incredibly crucial time for Iraq as an implementing country of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). It has until August 2012 to achieve EITI Validation, following the beginning of its candidacy in February 2010.
Message from Tanzanian CSOs in support of the EU's proposed mandatory disclosure rules
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Message from the Tanzanian Civil Society Organisations in support of the European Union’s proposed rules on mandatory disclosure by extractives and logging companies
Delivered in Brussels, Belgium, 21st March 2012
To Helle Thorning-Schmidt,
The Prime Minister of Denmark,
Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned Tanzanian Civil Society Organizations virtually convened on 13th March, 2012 to discuss the proposed EU re
Africa Steering Committee - N'Djamena Declaration March 2012
This declaration summarises the outcomes of the Africa Steering Committe’s second meeting, in N’Djamena on 5-7 March 2012. You can also view this declaration in its original PDF format.
N’Djamena Declaration
On 5-7 March, the PWYP Africa Steering Committee held its second meeting in N’Djamena (Chad).
Questões à volta da Mineração em Moçambique
A mineração em Moçambique é praticada a dois níveis: industrial (megaprojectos) e artesanal (garimpo).
