Uganda
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.
European Parliament backs Publish What You Pay rules
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European Parliament backs Publish What You Pay rules; sends strong signal to the European Commission
LONDON/STRASBOURG – Publish What You Pay, the global coalition of civil society groups, welcomes the European Parliament’s endorsement on Tuesday of plans for EU laws that will require oil, gas and mining companies to be more
Ugandan Activists call on UK Prime Minister to End Resource Curse
Activists Deliver Letter to David Cameron from 200 Ugandans
Ugandan activists have delivered a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, calling on the UK Government to ‘end the resource curse’ by supporting greater transparency in the oil industry. The letter was organised by the Publish What You Pay Coalition and signed by over 200 civil society activists from Uganda.
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I am Chairperson of Publish What You Pay Uganda and work for an organisation called Global Rights Alert. In Uganda we are striving to ensure that the recently discovered oil in our country helps us fight poverty, disease and develop economically.
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.
Uganda - Misplaced excitement about oil due to lack of information
2011 will go into the annals of Uganda’s history as the year when the oil bubble burst. The last quarter of the year was characterised by much talk on oil that persistent media reports quoted the President advising Ugandans not to be so excited about the recent oil discoveries.
All this after the oil debate reached boiling point and climaxed with a special session in Parliament to discuss developments in the oil industry. At some point, the President was even quoted as having said that sometimes he has to be reminded that we even have oil in Uganda, saying he forgets.
Citizens should be empowered to understand the oil and gas industry
Uganda’s new oil and gas industry has brought with it new phrases, one of which is ‘national content sometimes called local content’. I had never heard usage of the term until recently when, like other Ugandans, I picked interest in knowing what is going on in our oil and gas sector.
Towards a Time Bound Legislative Agenda for Effective Oil Governance and Avoiding the Oil Curse (Uganda)
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Communiqué Issued at the Closing of the High Level Policy Dialogue on Oil Governance in Uganda
1. The High Level Policy Dialogue on Oil Governance in Uganda took place in Jinja, Uganda on November 30 –December 1, 2011.
Tullow faces tough EU disclosure law
Tullow Oil as well as other oil and gas companies based in the European Union, will be required to publicly disclose their payments to the government, according to a new law being drafted by the EU.
The oil industry has come under the spotlight in recent weeks over the highly confidential dealings and payments to the government of Uganda, which are kept under tight wraps.
Uganda: Oil Fuels Political Controversy in Country
Uganda’s oil may still be underground, but tensions are already bubbling to the surface as government, MP’s and civil society clash over allegations of million-dollar oil bribes, lawsuits and accountability demands.
Many Ugandans were positively surprised when Uganda’s parliament passed a resolution in early October demanding an end to all oil deals until proper transparency and accountability laws are put in place. There were also calls for an independent investigation into the alleged million-dollar bribes ministers had accepted from western oil companies.
“I could not believe it.
