Implementing EITI for Impact

A Handbook for Policy Makers and Stakeholders

Anwar Ravat and Sridar P. KannanEditors

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

 

EITI is a global standard established in 2003 to promote and support improved governance in resource-rich countries through the full publication and verification of payments by companies and revenues to government from the oil, gas, and mining sectors.As a voluntary association of stakeholders with shared goals, the structure of the global EITI movement comprises a broad range of stakeholders. The EITI Board oversees EITI and comprises an elected chair and members representing resource-rich developing countries; supporting countries; international and domestic oil, gas, and mining companies; civil society members; and investor representatives. International development agencies such as the African Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank attend EITI Board meetings as observers.A Secretariat based in Oslo, Norway, supports the work of the EITI Board and coordinates EITI work globally. More information on EITI, the Board, and the Secretariat can be found at http://www.eiti.org.

Multi-Donor Trust Fund for EITI

In the context of the global EITI goals described above, the World Bank manages a Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) that helps support the World Bank’s technical assistance and financial support to EITI-implementing countries and civil society, and global knowledge and learning activities on EITI.As of February 2012, the supporting donors that have contributed to the MDTF were as follows: Australia; Belgium; Canada; the European Commission; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Japan; the Netherlands; Norway; Spain; Switzerland; the United Kingdom, which was the launch donor; and the United States. Funding from the MDTF to produce this handbook is gratefully acknowledged.

 

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

Implementing EITI for Impact  A Handbook for Policy Makers and Stakeholders

 As the initial experiences of EITI-implementing countries were becoming evident during 2004–07, the World Bank-EITI-MDTF program published “Implementing EITI: Applying Early Lessons from the Field,” in 2008. Supplementing the “EITI Source Book” and other EITI literature, it was designed to provide EITI practitioners and stakeholders with a practical guide to implementing EITI through examples of good-fit practices. Since then, EITI has achieved significant traction and momentum, and is now an established global standard, with many countries across the world actively imple-menting it. This handbook reaches out to countries that aspire to implement the EITI, are currently implementing it, or have already implemented it, by providing guidance on (a) implementing EITI, (b) overcoming common challenges to EITI implementation, and (c) “mainstreaming” EITI by using it as a platform for con-tinued reforms, in general, and sector-specific governance, leading to inclusive, inte-grated, and sustainable growth and development.By exploring strategies for “mainstreaming” EITI through follow-on actions and innovations to build on the EITI process, this handbook seeks to facilitate EITI-implementing countries in using EITI as a path to achieve good governance.This publication is targeted at policy makers and stakeholders in the EITI pro-cess, both globally and at the country level, and at other donor partners and support-ing agencies.This handbook is a supplement to the formal EITI literature—The

EITI Rules 

 (2011 edition) and other pronouncements by the International EITI Board—which are authoritative sources of the EITI standard.

Oil, Gas and Mining Unit (SEGOM)Sustainable Energy Department (SEG) Sustainable Development Network Vice-Presidency (SDN),  World Bank