The EITI Blog

The EITI Blog gathers together ideas about the role of transparency and natural resources in creating economic growth and fighting poverty and corruption. The blog is authored by members of the EITI Secretariat and key stakeholders.

The voluntary dimension of the EITI

September 16th 2010 - 1:03PM ... Eddie Rich

The EITI is often described as a voluntary initiative. Some imply by this that it is somehow toothless. I am sure that the companies operating in EITI implementing countries find the EITI mandatory indeed. The EITI is implemented by governments. And of course it is voluntary for governments to implement the EITI. Governments are sovereign and exercise the right to engage or not with any process. ...Read More

EITI reporting coming of age

August 28th 2010 - 5:34PM ... Jonas Moberg

Yr.no is one of Norway’s most visited website. It provides information about the weather and, as if we didn’t know it already, it reveals that it has rained for 11 of the last 14 days here in Oslo. Over lunch I end up in a discussion if weather is better here or in England and I return to the net to search for statistics to prove my point. Finding information about the weather in Norway and England is easy, finding data that can be easily compared is harder....Read More

Empowering women through EITI

July 27th 2010 - 3:43PM ... John Strongman

By John Strongman, Mining Adviser at the Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department, World Bank...Read More

EITI's evolution from CSR to governance standard is the key to emerging economies

June 8th 2010 - 4:43PM ... Jonas Moberg

“East outmanoeuvres west over Africa” was the heading of a contribution by Patrick Smith, the longstanding editor of Africa Confidential, to a series in the Financial Times on the competition between East and West (FT 2 June 2010). If it is true that companies from in particular China are gaining an upper hand in the race to control Africa’s oil and minerals, does it come at a price with a race to the bottom of standards? There are reasons to believe why this is not the case....Read More