Transparency Initiative (EITI)

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tation against the EITI Standard.
4. EITI Secretariat Reviews, produced occasionally as
interim assessments pending Validation.
EITI specific and EITI procedural aspects are found predominantly
up to output level (covering inputs and activities).
Key features are the:
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mandatory implementation of an international standard,
which introduces innovations to national and local
debates as it covers the entire decision making chain
in the natural resource sector from licensing to revenue
expenditure.
multi-stakeholder governance model, which includes
among other aspects:
consensual decision making both within stakeholder
groups, e.g. between government departments and government
levels like central/federal and local levels, and
between stakeholder groups, e.g. companies and civil
society organizations.
collective action, which leads to protected space for individuals
and entities in government, companies and
civil society in which critical issues can be addressed,
e.g. political taboos, corruption concerns.
Activities include the following aspects:
1. MSG established.
2. Key stakeholders capacitated.
3. EI framework conditions monitored.
4. Payments reported, reconciliated and disclosed.
5. EI decision chain information disclosed
(e.g. on licensing).
6. Reform processes of the state and for businesses
identified, facilitated and driven by the EITI.
Inputs can be summarized as follows:
1. Decisions by the International EITI Board to develop,
adjust and enforce the Standard.
2. Political will, services (e.g. preparing data) and financing
(e.g. staff) provided by implementing governments, and
key stakeholders (e.g. in MSG).
3. Services by the International EITI Secretariat (e.g. advice,
training, facilitation, research, platform for access
to global open data: https://eiti.org/data).
4. Services and financing by supporting governments,
companies, NGOs, foundations, philanthropists, etc.
(e.g. advice, training, facilitation, research).
5. Research results from academia.
For indicators and variables, and a description of the conditions
that are conducive or obstructive to achieve results,
please see the respective columns in the detailed version.
Objectively verifiable indicators are essential to measure
the benefits to EITI stakeholders. They should satisfy internationally
recognized quality criteria (e.g. SMART), however,
they cannot be articulated SMART on a generic level
as they need to catch all contexts. In particular, the same
sources of verification are not given in each country. Sources
of verification of the indicators should be available at
no or little cost to the the EITI stakeholders, in order not
to promote a stand-alone approach of EITI, but to mainstream
the initiative in governmental and industry processes.
The following special fields of change cannot be adequately
represented in the model:
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International coordination in the field of good governance
in the extractives sector in terms of the G7 lead
for a global level-playing-field, with regards to supply
chain security, fiscal transparency, anti-corruption, Domestic
Resource Mobilization (DRM), etc. A survey of
EITI implementation in G7, EU and OECD has shown
that the primary objective of industrialized countries
to opt for domestic implementation is to encourage
“good practice in developing and emerging countries
(especially in relation to good governance, anti-corruption
measures and a level playing field for the private
sector).” Out of this group of countries, only the USA
links EITI implementation specifically with its domestic
open government initiatives, the link between implementation
on the one hand and domestic political
objectives and reforms on the other is marginal in all
other cases. Besides the USA, the EITI is also linked to
the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Germany,
Norway and the United Kingdom. “For the most part,
the objectives derived from the work plans are limited
to technical issues concerning viability, reporting and
public relations.” (D-EITI 2015: 4).
Government internal communication and cooperation