This is a report of the findings from a learning focused evaluation of Publish What You Pay’s (PWYP) innovative Data Extractors’ (DE) programme. The programme, supported by the Omidyar Network, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Oxfam Denmark, was a direct response to the
publication of the first mandatory disclosure (‘payments to governments’) reports in Norway, the EU and Canada.
PWYP aimed to develop the capacity of its members to access, analyse and use mandatory disclosure and other data from individual research projects in their campaigns. 23 participants took part in 2 year-long courses involving a combination of face to face workshops and remote mentoring. The programme took a learning by doing approach to enable participants to uncover discrepancies and interesting stories that could then be packaged and communicated in case studies among other formats. Face to face meetings were intended to develop connections and peer support between participants. They also aimed to encourage collaborative projects between members from the Global North and members in resource rich countries in the Global South. In addition, PWYP had a scaling aim. Programme designers hoped that the Data Extractors would gain sufficient knowledge and skills to take up the training baton, contributing to a small but active data community within the PWYP coalition.
Story of Change In 2015, following an intensive campaign by civil society, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted a new mining code requiring mining companies to pay 1 per cent of their gross revenues to a community development fund. By July 2019, more than 12 billion Central African Francs (CFA), around US$20 million, had been…
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Story of Change Two herdswomen living near the River Tuul complained to local authorities about gravel mining that was creating dust, causing villagers ill health and preventing them from farming. Receiving no satisfactory response, the women began to organise villagers to protest, and with the help of PWYP Mongolia (the TAN Coalition) they formed an…
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Tracing progress towards revenue transparency and revenue sharing in the Zimbabwe extractives sector 2013-2019 The advocacy campaign by Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Zimbabwe aiming to influence mining revenue transparency and benefit sharing in the extractives sector in Zimbabwe is the focus of this case study. PWYP Zimbabwe was created in 2011, coincidentally this same year the Government of…
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