SOURCE: www.eiti.org Efforts to bring transparency to the commodity trading sector were given new momentum last month in Switzerland, the global centre for commodity traders. EITI Chair Fredrik Reinfeldt addressed traders at the FT Commodities Summit in Lausanne. This was followed by a meeting w...

SOURCE: www.eiti.org EITI Board assesses implementation in eight countries The EITI Board assessed the status of eight implementing countries, including Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Norway and Trinidad and Tobago at its meeting in Kyiv on 27-28 February. The Boa...

Source: www.eiti.org EITI Board to assess proposed changes to the global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources on 27-28 February To date, 38 of the EITI’s 51 members have completed the Validation process, which is the assessment of a country’s performance agains...

                                              National Secretariat Circular Proposed clarifications and changes to the EITI Requirements International Secretariat  Oslo, February 2019 Table of Contents Introductory message from Mark Proposed clarifications and changes to t...

The GYEITI held a Workshop themed: “The Advantages of EITI Reporting Mechanism, Methodology & Process” at the Cara Lodge, Georgetown Guyana on 12th Feb. 2019.  The workshop was conducted by the UK Firm, Moore Stephens LLP, which was hired as Independent Administrator by the Government of Guy...

 Global Conference Conference set to draw 1,000 collective governance supporters and practitioners in a time of rising polarisation. The Government of France and the EITI today confirmed that the 2019 EITI Global Conference will take place on 18-19 June at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris. Th...

 Jan 30, 2019  EITI Secretariat  EITI Chair, Helen Clark The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (EITI) Board today announced that former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark is confirmed as the nominee to chair the EITI. The former Prime Minister will assume her position f...

The EITI invites stakeholders to comment on opportunities to improve the collection, dissemination and utilisation of EITI summary data. A revised template is attached below for comment. Stakeholders are invited to comment on: Does the template adequately address the challenges encountered with...

Comments and submissions on the EITI Open data policy are welcome by 7 January 2019 to data@eiti.org The EITI’s Open data policy was adopted in 2015 and has since been an important reference for implementing countries in their open data efforts. This has been further reinforced with the EITI Boar...

EITI Newsletter December 2018 Dear friends of the EITI, It is with great pride that I officially stepped into my role as Executive Director of the EITI three weeks ago. Well into its second decade, the EITI has become a key player in the good governance of natural resources, powered by its many d...