The Publish What You Pay campaign in Africa

1. The Publish What You Pay campaign in Africa Tirana, 11 October 2011

2. Overview • PWYP Africa Story • Africa Governance until 2010 • Principles and elements of an improved governance • The way forward • Evolution of PWYP Africa - Summary

3. PWYP in the regions

4. The PWYP-Africa story 2004 • Launch of first African national PWYP coalitions: Congo-Brazzaville (2003), Chad and Nigeria (both 2004) 2005 • First PWYP Africa regional workshop, Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo (February 2005) • Civil society from six African countries (Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and Nigeria coalitions; representatives also from Cameroon, DRC and Angola) • Purpose: to develop a coordinated CSO strategy to ensure consistent standards of EITI implementation across the Gulf of Guinea region

5. The PWYP-Africa story Pointe-Noire specific outputs / outcomes: • To facilitate information exchange on best practices and lessons learned (especially in context of similar socio-political and economic constraints); • To collaborate on joint-advocacy initiatives at sub-regional level (Gulf of Guinea) • To encourage creation of new PWYP national platforms (and to strengthen existing ones) • To organise capacity-building (at regional/national levels) • To harmonise support from donors and technical partners

6. The PWYP-Africa story December 2005: • Second PWYP-Africa regional strategy meeting – Kribi, Cameroon • CSO representatives from 16 west and central African countries • Evolution into a ‘pan-African’ initiative • Creation of an “ad-hoc” committee to recommend on future institutional structure • A new Africa Regional Coordinator (Matteo Pellegrini) • Elaboration of a Regional Strategy / 2006 Action-Plan

7. The PWYP-Africa story 2006 Regional Action plan: Purpose: to formalise regional cooperation (“consolidate the regional framework of the campaign”) and to enhance coordination of financial / technical partners. Priority areas identified: • Creation of a regional network (incl. governance structure) to coordinate national coalition activities • Training and capacity development for members • Coordination of financial and technical partners • Encourage creation of new national coalitions • Information exchange between national coalitions • Collaborative advocacy (to governments / companies) added-value

8. The PWYP-Africa story 2007: • Limbe, Cameroon (March, 2007) • Idea for regional governance structure mooted • Follow-up meeting in Libre-ville, Gabon (June 2007) 2008: • New PWYP Africa Coordinator in post (Marie-Ange Kalenga) • PWYP Africa Regional Meeting – Abuja, Nigeria • Proposal for a regional governance structure (to ensure distinct African identity and ownership of the PWYP campaign)

9. The PWYP-Africa story 2009-10 Regional Action plan (developed in Abuja): Six priority areas identified: • Advocacy (including EITI and regional / IFI advocacy targets) • Operations and networking • Communication and information dissemination • Campaigners’ protection • Capacity development • Regional governance added-value

10. The PWYP-Africa story 2010 : • Marie-Ange Kalenga leaves (April 2010) • New Africa Coordinator recruited, Carlo Merla (October 2010) • Regional governance structure still under discussion: 2011: • Africa Regional Meeting: Kinshasa, DRC, May 2011 • Time to take action on the regional governance!

11. PWYP Africa Governance before Kinshasa • Africa Regional Meeting: • Strategic orientation • Exchange of experiences • Ad hoc Working Groups • Africa Coordinator: • Facilitator of the PWYP campaign • Management Committee of the Africa Coordinator: • Oversee management, administration and implementation of action plan Africa Coordinator project administered by CRS Ghana as well as performance of the Africa Coordinator

12. PWYP Africa Strategy and Governance approved in Kinshasa • PWYP Africa strategic guidelines • Principles of PWYP Africa governance • Africa Regional Meeting • Ad hoc Working Groups • Africa Steering Committee • Prevention and Protection Committee • Sub-Regional Meetings • Africa Coordinator

13. PWYP Africa strategic guidelines Financial transparency in the extractive industries: EITI and other corporate reporting standards • Extractive industry revenues • Profits, production volumes, costs and sales • Intra-group trade between subsidiaries and the parent company, to expose usage of tax havens. Contract transparency • Full contract disclosure between the state and companies (content of contract, lease, concession agreements; process from tendering to awarding; adoption of open competitive bidding rounds as a best practice) Transforming transparency to accountability • Transparency alone is not enough; need to go beyond transparency by promoting the accountability of the use of revenues derived from EI

14. Basic principles for an improved governance system • Simple, efficient and participatory, allowing all the coalitions to participate and feel part of it • Inspired by the principles of transparency and accountability that inspire the campaign • Sustainable, effective and flexible to adapt to external conditions, strategic priorities and resources available. • A governance that can strengthen the campaign in each country, and at the same time give a regional dimension to our advocacy efforts • Reinforce visibility and participation of African coalitions within the international network of PWYP

15. The Africa level: Basic principles for an improved governance system • Strengthen cohesion between the different levels (global, regional, sub-regional and national). • Governance shall be accompanied by effective communication enabling decision making and consensus building based on timely and relevant information; without a good flow of information governance becomes an obstacle rather than a strength of the campaign. • Advocacy and Capacity building should be the central priorities of PWYP Africa; PWYP capacity and advocacy strategy in Africa must constantly evolve and adapt to innovations and the changing context in order to respond effectively and strategically to arising challenges; capacities should be extended gradually and constantly at all levels.

16. The Africa level: Elements of an improved governance system • The Africa Regional Meeting

17. The Africa level: Elements of an improved governance system • The Africa Steering Committee

18. The Africa level: Elements of an improved governance system • The Africa Steering Committee – Nomination of Sub-Regional Representatives

19. The Africa level: Elements of an improved governance system • The Working Groups

20. The Africa level: Elements of an improved governance system • The African Sub-Regional Meetings

21. The Africa level: Elements of an improved governance system • The Africa Coordinator

22. First Africa Steering Committee meeting (October 2011) • Advocacy targeting African Institutions • Entry strategy • Developing of a vision of PWYP Africa and strategy paper • Engagement with EITI: • EITI international Board: • SWG – Position paper (by Jakarta meeting) • Support the role of African CS board members • Guidance to national coalitions for improved EITI country processes • Protection policy • Adoption of the policy (validation by October 2011) • Set up of a Prevention and Protection Committee within the ASC • Prevention and coordination • Developing of a PWYP Africa Charter (validation by January 2012) • Nomination of a rotating chair and vice-chair • Assessment, monitoring and support to PWYP national coalitions, ensuring compliance to PWYP values and principles • Promote capacity building on emerging priorities and resource mobilization • Participate in the global strategy development process

23. Evolution of the African PWYP campaign

24. Thank-you! For more information Carlomerla.pwyp@gmail.com Or visit the PWYP website www.publishwhatyoupay.org

25. Achievements of PWYP relevant to the African context (1) The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative • The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was launched in 2002 as a response to the Publish What You Pay campaign. Since then, as an initiative based on voluntary participation, the EITI has acquired many members from African countries (5 compliant countries and 16 candidate countries as of 25 May 2011).

26. Achievements of PWYP relevant to the African context (2) • The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in the United States, which includes a provision obliging US-listed companies engaged in oil, gas or mineral extraction to report how much they pay to governments promises more timely data as well as information for countries which are not implementing EITI (Angola, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Uganda, etc.) • Country by country and project by project reporting • Covers around 90% of internationally operating oil companies – US and foreign • 8 of the world’s 10 largest mining companies

27. Achievements of PWYP relevant to the African context (3) • National legislation (Liberia EITI law, Nigeria EITI law, Ghana Petroleum Revenue Management Bill), constitutional reforms (Niger) also seeks to respond to this problem. • Freedom of information laws have been adopted by a number of African countries (e.g. Liberia, Uganda, Nigeria) though in many cases implementation has been lacking. If implemented meaningfully these laws would equip the public with the right to information on the receipt and use of natural resource revenues.