PWYP-US kicks off data skills training series: Workshop 1 – Data Organization and GIS Basics

This post originally appeared on www.extractafact.org on June 3, 2016 On May 19, PWYP-US hosted the first of two data skills training workshops to explore ways of using the USEITI data with the open source QGIS mapping software. In the first session, our trainer, University of Maryland Geographical Sciences PhD candidate, Diana Parker, introduced the basics of organizing data as…

Welcome to Extract-A-Fact

This post originally appeared on www.extractafact.org on June 3, 2016 Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) is excited to launch the Extract-A-Fact project! “Are we getting a good deal on our natural resources?” Extract-A-Fact will provide training modules detailing useful and creative ways to find, analyze, and visualize extractives data, as well as blog posts from PWYP-US and…

Project-level reporting is necessary for accountability

The Publish What You Pay-United States coalition along with global partners have advocated on the importance of project-level reporting requirements in transparency regulation governing the extractives sector. Civil society organizations committed to transparency and accountability have made clear that to effectively carry out their work payment disclosures are only meaningful when made at the appropriate level of specificity. Over the…

FACT SHEET – EU rules for disclosure of payments to governments by oil, gas and mining and logging companies

On 26 June 2013 the European Parliament and Council of the European Union (EU Member States) signed into law new payment disclosure requirements for the extractive and forestry industries. These new rules require oil, gas, mining and logging companies to annually disclose the payments they make to governments on a country-by-country and project-by-project basis.