Overview Advocay work Publish What You Pay Kimberly Process Certification Scheme Promoting Legislative Represantation of Mining Communities Building the Capacity of Community Trusts Litigating on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Court Cases The Fair, Green and Global Alliance (FGG) Programme African Initiative on Mining Environment and Society (AIMES)

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Campaign

ZELA is a member of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign. The Publish What You Pay campaign (www.publishwhatyoupay.org) is a global coalition of civil society organizations that seek to hold resource rich governments accountable for the management of revenues from oil, gas and mining industries. The PWYP campaign was launched in 2002 and works with civil society organizations in 70 countries. It advocates and campaigns for mandatory disclosure of company payments and government revenues and also calls for disclosure of licensing arrangements and contracts. The coalition stresses that companies should publish what they pay and governments should “publish what they earn” [more]

ZELA to Launch Publish What You Pay (PWYP)-Zimbabwe Chapter

The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) in partnership with the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and the Publish What You Pay (PWYP)-International will be launching the Publish What You Pay (PWYP)-Zimbabwe Chapter in August 2011 in Harare. The PWYP-campaign is a global network of over 600 civil society member organizations in more than 30 countries that are united in their call for extractive sector revenues to form the basis for development and improving the lives of ordinary citizens in resource-rich countries. PWYP undertakes public campaigns and policy advocacy to achieve disclosure of information about extractive industry (mining, oil and gas) revenues and contracts. The PWYP-Campaign allows for the sharing of extractive sector advocacy information, best practices and lessons learnt across the world [more]