Since 2005, RWI has provided support for EITI and PWYP Regional Trainings for African civil society activists from across the continent. Organized every 18 months, workshops have taken place to date in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Cote d'Ivoire.  These trainings have aimed to boost the capacity of the most active and promising civil society leaders in sub-Saharan Africa to actively participate in EITI processes in their own countries.

The workshops have addressed several major challenges related to civil society capacity-building around the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) in West Africa, including increasing coordination of CSOs participating in EITI at a regional level to ensure continuing exchange of best practices; training on EITI principles and criteria, validation processes and audit; and addressing issues such as the impact of different fiscal and contracting arrangements for extractives, international best practices on licensing, and model revenue management laws.

Although RWI continues to provide support for individual national PWYP coalitions, the aforementioned trainings remain an important vehicle to bring together partners from across the continent and to continue to share experiences and lessons learned.

For more information on the activities of PWYP, please see www.publishwhatyoupay.org/.