Minister of Hydrocarbons, Crispin Atama Tabe, invited oil companies to engage in Congolese implementation of the EITI process to improve their image and increase trust in local communities.
As the EITI is piloted in Australia, project-by-project disclosures must be recognised as vital to better position mine-affected communities to negotiate with companies on more equal footing, but there are benefits for the companies as well.
EITI urges the government to explain how the extractive industries sector is managed, and present transparent data that would attract foreign investors as Cameroon fails to publish information on payments by mineral resources companies in the country.
People in Zimbabwe are pushing for the country to become an EITI member, but the process is currently on hold while deciding who should lead the multi-stakeholder group.
Plusieurs centaines de millions de dollars américains perçus chaque année par les régies financières auprès des entreprises extractives ne sont pas déclarés au trésor public a indiqué RDC ITIE.
Civil society groups have questioned the transparency in Uganda’s petroleum sector, urging government to commit itself by publishing all oil deals.
The Bill will make compliance and fill disclosure mandatory and also consolidate and expand the scope of the EITI to cover the entire natural resources governance to include oil, gas, forestry and fisheries.
The struggle for transparency in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria needs the Freedom of Information Act as well as the EITI to crack open the door to transparency.
She praised Britain for its role in facilitating next month’s visit of the EITI Secretariat.
The law would give legal backing to the EITI implementation and mainstream transparency in the management of the nation's natural resources.
