Côte d'Ivoire
Publish What You Pay Côte d’Ivoire
Related Resources
- 22 Apr 2009West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF)
- 10 Sep 2008Publish What You Pay International
- Country of operation:
- Ivory Coast
- Date launched:
- 26 April 2007
- Country EITI status:
- Candidate
- Media Contact:
-
Tingain Kouadio Julien
Tel.+225 23 52 61 98
Languages spoken by this contact: French and a little English - National coalition website:
- http://www.pcqvpciv.org
- Country information:
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative country page
- PWYP Advocacies:
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
- Accounting standards regulations
- Companies
- Governments
- Investors
- International Financial Institutions
- Parliamentarians
- Regional economic communities
- Other international institutions
- PWYP Objectives:
- Transparency of company payments and government revenues
- Transparency of government expenditure
- Transparency of contracts and licensing procedures
- Supporting partner institutions:
-
OSIWA
RWI
PCQVP International
PCQVP Afrique
IBP
Global Witness
Recent activities
Last Update 10.06.10
Between May 2009 and February 2010, PYWP-Côte d’Ivoire, with the support of RWI undertook participatory research with local communities in Angovia, Jacqueville, Bondoukou and other districts where extractive industries operate. The aim was to collect their concerns and grievances about the activities of extractives to date, as well as to inform them about reforms planned in the sector. Besides reviewing the redistribution of natural resource revenues, an in-depth reform of the national mining code is underway. In its current form, the revised code appears highly advantageous to multinational companies but inconsiderate of local communities’ needs.
PWYP-Côte d’Ivoire reported the findings of its research to the national EITI council. One of the discoveries made by PWYP members during a visit to communities in the Jacqueville district was that the company Foxtrot International had been granting funds to local communities, but that these had never reached the intended beneficiaries. For this reason, PWYP-Côte d’Ivoire has been calling for decentralized management of extractive revenues. The coalition has been asked by the national EITI council to submit written reform proposals, which are now being formulated by the coalition.
During meetings with representatives from different embassies, PWYP-Côte d’Ivoire has also been addressing the challenges of protecting civil society activists against potential threats and the lack of involvement of certain companies in the Ivorian EITI process. With the French embassy, PWYP-Côte d’Ivoire also discussed the action plan for general distribution of the EITI report covering the years 2006-2007.
The PWYP-Côte d’Ivoire coalition continues to grow and now has (at the time of writing) ten members.
Coalition Members:
COPACT-CI
Droits et Devoirs Démocratiques
Eden International
Gouvernance et Culture de Développement
Social Justice
Ligue Ivoirienne des droits de l’homme
Centre d’Actions pour le développement social
Association des femmes juristes de CI
ONG Genre Développement et Droits Humains
Groupe de Recherche et de Plaidoyer sur les Industries Extractives
