17 <strong>EITI</strong> COUNTRY STATUS 2007-2015 31 COUNTRIES ARE <strong>EITI</strong> COMPLIANT* Candidate Compliant Suspended 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Source: <strong>EITI</strong> Progress Report 2016 (data as of 03/18/2016). *with the 2011 Rules
18 Introduction 2.2 THE ROLE OF GERMANY The German government considers the <strong>EITI</strong> as an anchor point for engaging with international partners around the world to strengthen good governance in the extractives sector. With regard to defining a strategy within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), it is formulated in sector (BMZ, 2010) and several country policies that partner countries use their resource endowments to foster sustainable development. Broadly this means that countries are looking to ensure that revenues benefit the population at large and that resource extraction is socially and environmentally acceptable. Furthermore, in order for the extractives sector to become a driver of broader employment and growth, linkages between major projects in the sector and the local economy must be established. In principle, BMZ policies link the <strong>EITI</strong> transparency agenda to Good Financial Governance (GFG) and economic and social reform agendas. This means that support of the <strong>EITI</strong> is geared towards framing it in Public Financial Management (PFM), as well as more specific good governance interventions such as the Open Data Movement, the Tax Justice Movement (e.g. on transfer pricing issues), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda’s Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) program, although the linkages vary depending on the country context. The <strong>EITI</strong> plausibly contributes to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 (“Partnerships for the Goals – Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”) among others (CCSI 2016, p. 66-68). Bank managed <strong>EITI</strong> Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) (2004 until 2015), and since then Component I of the Extractives Global Programmatic Support (EGPS). In 2014, Germany started domestic implementation and since February 2016, Germany is an <strong>EITI</strong> candidate, aiming to become <strong>EITI</strong> compliant in 2018. This step was taken in coordination with the G7. Among the countries that make up the G7, EU and OECD, the <strong>EITI</strong> is implemented by: `` three of the G7 member states (43%) `` two of the 28 EU member states (7%) `` four of the 35 OECD member states (11%) A growing number of industrialized nations are participating in the <strong>EITI</strong>: Great Britain since October 2014, the USA since March 2014; Norway has been a member since 2011; and other countries have announced an intention to implement the <strong>EITI</strong>, including Australia, the Netherlands, France and Italy. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and the Republic of South Africa) have long been a focus of <strong>EITI</strong> advocacy and outreach, but thus far none of them have chosen to implement the <strong>EITI</strong>. In a whole-of-government-approach, the <strong>EITI</strong> was introduced to the German Government’s raw materials strategy in 2012 in terms of "safeguarding of the supply of raw materials needs to be backed by a committed foreign policy, external economic policy and development co-operation policy" (BMWi, 2012: 26). German support has been broadbased from the very beginning: More than EUR 26 million have been allocated since 2006, supporting more than 20 national <strong>EITI</strong> processes through bilateral and regional cooperation, conducting training for more than 500 change agents from 44 countries (outreach and implementing countries), supporting activities under the first <strong>EITI</strong> Chair Peter Eigen (2006-2011), funding the International Secretariat as well as at the multilateral level through the World
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