1% INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT For the year ended 31 December 2018 (in £ thousands) 9% 19% FOREWORD FROM 12% Annual report 2018 INCOME BY SOURCE 2018 2018 2017 2017 © Courtesy OUR FOUNDERS: of Skoll Foundation Charmian Gooch, Patrick Alley Governments 2,026 19% 2,244 21% 2018 INCOME and Simon Taylor Trusts and Foundations 6,414 59% 6,254 59% As we approach 25 years since we set up Global Witness, DELIVERING Individuals 1,300 12% 1,586 15% it’s only natural to reflect on what has been achieved and Other NGOs and Multilaterals 963 9% 296 3% how things have changed since we began. When we first exposed the deadly multi-million dollar cross-border trade in Donated services and facilities 162 1% 193 2% 59% Cambodian rainforest timber between the genocidal Khmer 10,865 100% 10,573 100% Rouge and Thai logging companies, we pioneered the concept that corruption, human rights and environmental abuses GLOBAL are often inextricably linked. But we had no idea we would 9% eventually play a major part in bringing the world’s biggest corporate corruption case against senior executives at major EXPENDITURE 2018 2018 2017 2017 12% oil companies, work with partners to bring global attention to attacks on brave land and environmental defenders, or win CHANGE Campaigns 8,373 79% 7,600 79% 2018 a TED prize for our work to end anonymous companies. The Indirect costs and governance 1,289 12% 1,121 12% EXPENDITURE change Global Witness has catalysed with its investigations, Cost of raising funds 962 9% 915 9% its campaigning work and its advocacy is amazing. 40% of the world’s endangered bonobo population live in Salonga National Park, 10,624 100% 9,636 100% Yet the challenges that made us start Global Witness remain a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the as relevant today as ever. As we hurtle ever closer to the largest tropical rainforest in Africa. 79% Comico told us it would not drill in Salonga catastrophe of global climate breakdown, we need to be National Park. We are pushing for a strong working harder and smarter to protect our planet from commitment to stay out altogether. BY CAMPAIGN 2018 2018 2017 2017 rapacious and destructive companies and negligent or © Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo corrupt Governments. Last year, for example, we: Conflict and Fragile States 2,367 25% 1,946 22% 25% Used our undercover footage to support authorities to Corruption 3,514 36% 3,016 35% build cases against illegal timber traders in Peru; Forests, Land and Climate 3,781 39% 3,759 43% Exposed the illegality of logging operations in the Solomon 39% 9,662 100% 8,721 100% 2018 Islands and Papua New Guinea through satellite imagery; and BY CAMPAIGN Uncovered Exxon’s complicity in Liberian oil sector corruption, which has led to an investigation into the actions of Government officials The above summarised financial statements are extracted from the full statutory directors’ 25 annual report and financial statements which were approved by the directors and signed on 36% their behalf on 15 April 2019. The full financial statements, on which the auditors Crowe U.K. LLP Corruption continues to be at the heart of so many of the gave an unqualified audit report on 15 April 2019, have been submitted to Companies House. issues we face in truly tackling the scale of the harm we’re years doing to our environment. Global Witness is more determined These summarised financial statements may not contain sufficient information to gain a complete understanding of the financial affairs of Global Witness. The full statutory and more committed than ever to uncover this corruption, and directors’ report, financial statements and auditor’s report may be obtained from expose it to the world, and campaign to change the systems counting www.globalwitness.org/about-us/financial-statements/ that enable it. Indigenous peoples and defenders like Maria do Socorro Costa da Silva THANK YOU TO ALL continued to struggle for their land OF OUR SUPPORTERS* rights in the deadliest country for MESSAGE defenders in 2017 – Brazil. Global Witness is a non-profit organisation that relies People Postcode Board of Directors Trustees of Global FROM OUR CEO: © Thom Pierce / Guardian / on the generosity of our supporters and partners to continue Lottery Witness Trust (UK) Global Witness / UN Environment Mark Stephens CBE Gillian Caldwell our tireless investigations, exposés and advocacy. Without Pro Victimis (Chair) Christopher Mitchell your support, the victories we have struck against conflict, Foundation (Chair) In 2018, some of our longest-running Patrick Alley campaigns bore fruit. Nowhere is this corruption, human rights abuses and environmental Silicon Valley Jeremy Bristow Charmian Gooch more apparent than the historic victory destruction around the world would never have been achieved. Community Caroline Digby to bring transparency to UK Overseas © Courtesy of Skoll Foundation Juana Kweitel Foundation We want to thank all of our donors for sharing our vision Tony Stevenson Territories through public registers of for a better world - where corruption in the global political Skoll Foundation Simon Taylor company ownership. This is the culmination Directors of Global and economic system is challenged and accountability Taylour Foundation Jessy Tolkan of almost a decade of campaigning for reform in these prevails, people’s rights to land and livelihood are protected, Witness Foundation notorious tax havens, which have long been destinations governments act in the public rather than the private interest, The Foundation (US) of choice for those laundering dirty money, including to Promote Open Advisory Board and the environment on which we all depend is protected. Stafford Matthews billions that may have been stolen from developing Society Bennett Freeman (President) economies off the back of natural resource deals. The Swedish (Chair) DONORS Institutions Grantham Patrick Alley and NGOs Foundation for the International Misha Glenny We had other victories as well: Individuals Protection of the Development Bennett Freeman In Afghanistan, a new mining law passed with the Adessium Stephen King - Environment Cooperation provisions we had argued for, including public registers John and Laura Foundation Agency, Sida, resigned 19 April Arnold Horace W. 2018. of mine ownership, contract publication as a condition Arcadia - a represented by the *These are the donors Goldsmith that have given their of validity, and the publication of mining production and Bailey Caldwell charitable trust of Embassy of Sweden Ory Okolloh Foundation consent to have their payment data to reduce corruption. Peter Baldwin and in Kinshasa appointed 2 Yvon Chouinard gift acknowledged in our In the European Union, we secured support for a new Lisbet Rausing Irish Aid The Waterloo October 2018 Annual Report. Matthew Erickson Foundation law to require EU investors to ensure that they aren’t Arcus Foundation IUCN NL Camille Massey financing companies and projects anywhere in the world Mary Follett and Bertha Foundation JMG Foundation Third Sector New Bandi Mbubi which contribute to climate change, deforestation, or Toby Follett England human rights violations. Brook Foundation John D. and Arlene McCarthy Susannah Goodman Catherine T. Tilia Fund OBE Pending US legislation on Myanmar includes important Climate and Land Ken & Dana Design MacArthur language we advocated for incentivising reform to move the Use Alliance (CLUA) UK Department Christopher Mitchell Foundation Ann K. Luskey for International gemstone sector away from corrupt military control. Don Quixote Aryeh Neier Kestrelman Trust Development (DFID) Camille Massey Foundation (Honorary Chair) UPPING UK Department Our work continues in all these areas and more. In the years Ministry of Foreign Georgia Oetker Evan Cornish Anita Ramasastry to come we will continue to push politicians and companies Affairs of Denmark for International Foundation to deliver for people and the planet. Stephen Peel Development- FGMC Silas Siakor Nationale Postcode FJC, A Foundation of Ethan Preston, Loterij Wallace Global Fund Alexander Soros We couldn’t achieve what we do without the energy and THE Philanthropic Funds Preston Law Offices - resigned 20 commitment of our strategic and tenacious staff and partners Norwegian Agency William and Flora Ford Foundation November 2018 around the world, who confront powerful and sometimes for Development Hewlett Foundation Mike Servent dangerous opponents daily. Nor without our supporters, Frederick Mulder Cooperation Mabel van Oranje Susan Seymour who drive us forward in our fight for a more just and Foundation (NORAD) ANTE Edward Zwick sustainable world. Jane Thurnell-Read Good Energies Omidyar Network And the hundreds of individuals who support Global Witness. www.globalwitness.org Printed on 100% recycled FSC accredited paper that is chlorine free. GLOBAL IMPACTS DRC SOUTH SUDAN in their supply chains, NIGERIA AFGHANISTAN laundering laws. Attorney NIGER In response to our report, Our report on state-owned and commitments to avoid Our economic analysis The new mining law Marc S. Koplik is subject to We helped release detained Our work touches Comico said it would not drill oil company, Nilepet, led to deforestation and land revealed the full impact of includes publication similar censure. civil society activists in Niger countries all around the in Salonga National Park, a them and 14 other companies grabbing. the 2011 oil deal struck by of beneficial ownership (including allies on the Publish world (highlighted). Here is UNESCO World Heritage Site. being ‘listed’ by the US Shell and Eni on the Nigerian as well as production CHINA What You Pay coalition) a taster of some of our most Now we’re pushing for Securities and Exchange UK economy, highlighting that and payment data. Our investigation revealed as part of an international important impacts in 2018: a binding commitment to Commission (SEC), making it We released the first expected government revenue that tropical timber across campaigning effort. keep out altogether. harder for them to trade with comprehensive analysis was reduced by nearly $6bn.