RELUFA is founding member of the Cameroonian branch of the international Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition. PWYP seeks to establish an international framework requiring transnational extraction companies to publish net taxes, fees, royalties, and other payments made. The disclosure of these data will allow civil society to more accurately assess the government's spenditure of revenue resources and trace misappropriation of funds.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has started to render public the
Reconciliation Reports on the financial and physical flows as regards
the Cameroon Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
As part of the national EITI commission RELUFA and its member organization CED have critically been following Cameroon's commitment to EITI and publicly commented on the government's publications.
To help raise awareness among the Cameroonian population RELUFA worked with CED and the Peace and Justice Commission of the Catholic Church to make a poster about the government's promises.
Download the English version of the poster in original format
Télécharger la version française du poster en format original
In 2004, the network collaborated with
Cameroonian member churches of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
(WARC) to develop a statement on the current trends of oil industries
in Central Africa. This statement was presented in a plenary session of WARC's
2004 General Council in Accra (Ghana). Since then the Presbyterian Church USA has followed the call for WARC sister churches to officially join the worldwide PWYP coalition and advocate for legislation in their own country that would make publication of payments to governments of oil producing nations manadatory for resource extraction companies.
Besides legislative measures, RELUFA works with its partners to defend the cause of transparency advocates
who seek open and peaceful dialogue but fall victim to suppresive measure and arbitrary arrests for their activism.
RELUFA Coordinator, Valery Nodem is Board member of the Revenue Watch Institute
Extractive Industries on Cameroonian soil. Click here for a larger map.
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