Publish What You Pay and UN Women are working together to integrate gender perspectives into natural resource governance, so that when we say we want all citizens to benefit from their resources, we really mean all citizens. To this end, we created a value chain that shows how you can approach gender at every step in the extractive process.
In parallel with globally recognised human right frameworks, we believe that women’s participation should be increased at every level and in every activity along the extractive value chain, in government, civil society and the private sector.
Women’s leadership and participation should be promoted in all discussions within the extractive industries sector. Women are actors, not victims, and it is time they had a better way to engage with natural resources.
PWYP commits to taking on a feminist perspective in everything we do. We understand this to mean working to uphold the rights and dignity of all people regardless of their sex, gender, race, age, class, ability or other social identifiers. We strive to foster a culture of inclusivity, respect, and equality that embodies our commitment…
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In 2019, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard incorporated a number of requirements making the process more gender sensitive. Three years on, how well have these new requirements been implemented in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Senegal? Have they encouraged more consideration of women’s rights in the natural resource extractive industry? What has changed for…
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With support from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) national coalitions in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda undertook research to unearth what data/information and reforms are needed to improve women’s participation and power in decision-making around the allocation and use of extractive revenues, for the benefit of women, men and…
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