Publish What You Pay

The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign aims to help citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries.

PWYP is a coalition of over 300 organizations worldwide calling for the mandatory disclosure of payments by oil, gas and mining companies to all governments for the extraction of natural resources. The coalition also calls on governments in resource-rich developing nations to publish full details on EI revenues. To ensure that multinational and state-owned companies disclose payments made to governments, and that governments disclose the revenues received from the extractive sector, a number of mandatory regulatory mechanisms are needed. As it demands implementation of these regulations, Publish What You Pay's primary targets are:

• Stock market listing authorities
• The World Bank Group (IBRD, IDA, MIGA and IFC)
• The International Monetary Fund
• Other multilateral and bilateral lending institutions
• Export credit agencies
• Producer country governments
• Developed country governments
• The International Accounting Standards Board
• Private, commercial and retail banks that make resource-backed loans

The Publish What You Pay campaign was founded by Global Witness, CAFOD, Oxfam, Save the Children UK, Transparency International UK and George Soros, Chairman of the Open Society Institute.

Publish What You Pay members are actively working towards greater resource revenue transparency around the world, including ongoing efforts in Australia, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, the United States and the United Kingdom.

For all the latest information about the PWYP coalition, go to www.publishwhatyoupay.org.