• To provide civil society with a broad and effective coordination and advocacy platform that is legitimate and representative to address issues concerning natural management in the extractive industries and in government;
• To ensure that PWYP members coordinate and work together in ensuring that the government and extractive industry operators adhere to and implement the Extractive industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standards in Zamba;
• To ensure that PWYP members have the relevant competence and skills to address issues concerning natural resource management in the extractive industries and in government;
• To ensure that PWYP members are actively engaged in evidence based advocacy;
• To ensure that local communities represented by its members are empowered to engage on natural resource management issues affecting them;
• To ensure that the energy transition is not only just but also not repeat mistakes from the past (the resource curse);
• To promote African initiatives that aim to ensure that its citizens benefit from Natural resource Management e.g. the African Mining Vision (AMV), SADC Protocol.

PWYP Zambia is a response to the poor governance and transparency in the management and utilizations of revenues from the country’s natural resources. We are particularly concerned about the:

1. Failure to generate large enough revenues that can cultivate a robust economy and contribute substantially to poverty reduction.
2. Failure to account for the true operational cost of the mines
3. Failure by companies to declare their financial statements in a transparent manner, which accounts for limited analysis and scrutiny of the mining companies balance sheets;
4. Poor record management that leads to inadequate declarations and/or accounting for the amounts received from the extractive industry companies
5. The absence of up-to-date records on the extent of minerals deposits that the country is endowed.

We aim to ensure that PWYP is:

• Informed by putting information in the public domain to promote good governance and accountability
• Influential in the formulation and implementation of extractive sector policy and legislative framework
• Heard by expanding the space for members’ participation and proactively identifying and challenging any restrictive environments.
• Connected, by increasingly working with strong cross-sectoral partnerships and alliances with the tax justice, human rights and gender justice movements.

PWYP has four strategic areas, as follows:- policy and legal reforms; extractive transparency; climate change, energy transition and tax justice; and institutional capacity strengthening.