Liberia
PWYP commends Liberia for achieving EITI Compliant status
Publish What You Pay has congratulated all stakeholders in Liberia’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) following the country’s designation by the EITI Board as EITI ‘Compliant’ on 14 October 2009.
Liberia becomes the first African country to be validated as Compliant under the rules and principles of the EITI, a global framework for increased transparency in the oil, gas and mining sectors which champions dialogue between government, civil society and the private sector.
PWYP Welcomes Adoption of Transparency Act in Liberia
London: Publish What You Pay (PWYP)* welcomes the news that Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has signed a new transparency law which increases accountability over the management of the country’s natural resources.
Approved on 10 July 2009, the LEITI Act seeks to ensure that the benefits due to the government and people of Liberia from the exploitation of natural resources are “verifiably paid or provided; duly accounted for; and prudently utilized for the benefits of all Liberians….”
PWYP Liberia follows revenue in LEITI's second report
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Liberia; the civil society Coalition on the extractive Industries in Liberia has begun what it calls a vigorous campaign to popularize the second annual report of the Liberia Extractive Industries transparency Initiatives (LEITI). PWYP Liberia says it major primary goal is to follow monies that are reported in the LEITI 2-annual report on the extractive sector.
Conakry Declaration
We, members of civil society organizations from Congo‐Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone and the United States as well as community leaders from Guinean mining communities in Fria, Kindia, Léro, Sangarédi and Siguiri in the Republic of Guinea, having participated in a regional seminar on the exploitation of natural resources and the rights of communities held in Conakry (Guinea) from March 13‐15, 2011, at the initiative of the Centre du Commerce International pour le Développement (CECIDE) and Global Rights.
Global Witness welcomes new Liberian Transparency law, urges other countries to follow suit
A new transparency law signed by President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, covering oil extraction, mining and other natural resource industries, sets an impressive benchmark for global efforts to fight the natural resource curse and should be emulated by other countries, said Global Witness today.
Liberian legislature passes the Liberian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative Act
The Publish What You Pay Liberia Coalition commends the Liberian Senate for concurring and passing the Liberian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative Act, on June 11, 2009 creating the first mandatory disaggregated reporting process for extractive company payments to the Government of Liberia. The passage of the LEITI Act helps ensure that the LEITI process will continue to bring transparency to payments made by extractive companies to the Government.
West African Civil Society salutes the adoption of the ECOWAS mining directive; calls on all stakeholders to comply
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.
Save the Children UK statement to the EITI High-Level Conference 2003
Save the Children strongly welcomes the Prime Minister’s leadership in launching the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. We call on government and business leaders today to seize the opportunity to increase financial transparency, in order to alleviate the corruption and conflict afflicting more than 700 million poor children in mineral-rich countries.
