Category: Webinar Update

The Civil Society East Africa Oil and Gas Forum is hosting an inaugural webinar themed “The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas in East Africa and the Agenda for Collaborative Advocacy” scheduled for 22nd October 2020 between 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm. The webinar will be held on Zoom. The forum was co-created by the Mozambique Civil Society Platform on Extractive Industries (PIE), Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG), the Civil Society Coalition on Oil and Gas (CSCO) and the HakiRasilimali. Its purpose is to promote regional discussions on: developments and progress in the sector within the region to allow for peer learning; emerging challenges and mitigation measures; and areas for potential joint regional advocacy. The inaugural webinar will seek to tackle no less than the following objectives: …

The webinar was convened by Oxfam in Kenya (OiK), Transparency International Kenya (TI-Kenya) and Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG). The webinar sought to address issues relating to: inadequate consultation of women including in interactions between communities and companies; inadequate consideration of issues unique to women and girls; and lack of disaggregation of impacts and mitigation measures within ESIA study reports. In doing so the webinar envisioned the following expected outcomes: an enhanced understanding of the current state of the ESIA process; and policy proposals on how a gendered approach can be adopted in ESIA studies and subsequent audits to ensure sustainability. It brought together over 40 stakeholders form various sectors including representatives from: Government of Kenya (GoK); private sector oil and gas companies; Civil Society Organizations…

WASHINGTON DC LAUNCH WHEN: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm (EST) WHERE: Oxfam America office, 1101 17th Street NW, Washington DC RSVP HERE for in-person or livestream Oxfam America, in partnership with Publish What You Pay United States and Emerging Markets Investor Alliance, will on 20th June 2018 launch Oxfam’s Contract Disclosure Survey 2018. The report gives the most recent snapshot of the current landscape of corporate policy positions on contract disclosure. Based on a survey of 40 leading oil, gas and mining companies, the report aims to inform work on contract disclosure and analysis underway by a range of stakeholders, while providing a basis for constructive discussion around this often sensitive topic. The event will feature a presentation of the Oxfam report, reflections from civil society, investors, and companies covered in the…

The Kenya Civil Society Platform, which is the Publish What You Pay Coalition in Kenya, attended the 2019 Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference in Paris. At the recently concluded EITI board meeting held in Kyiv, Ukraine 27-28th February 2019, board members representing governments, companies and civil society actors agreed upon historic revisions to the EITI Standard. You may read the East and Southern Africa CSO Position commending the revision to the EITI Standards here. ESA CSO Position on EITI Process

On 28 August 2018, the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil & Gas (KCSPOG) was part of a panel discussion on NTV on the Opportunities that lie in the extractive industry in East Africa. Below is a recording of the discussion. https://youtu.be/ky7bMNyl_yQ