Guide For Legislators Provides Tools For Promoting Extractive Industry Transparency
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The EITI Guide for Legislators: How to Support and Strengthen Resource Transparency is a concise, simple-to-use resource for parliamentarians to learn how they can promote the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative—a set of established mechanisms that leads to companies and governments making public the funds they pay and receive in these sectors.
Currently being implemented in 26 countries, the EITI standards require the involvement of government, civil society and industry representatives. The EITI methodology does not require an explicit role for legislators. Nevertheless, legislators have an important role to play in an EITI process by safeguarding citizens' interests, developing policies, and holding government to account.
The guide provides legislators with information about the EITI process and offers specific legislative tools and strategies for contributing to and strengthening the EITI program. It is designed for legislators, legislative staff and all those who support their efforts to engage more effectively in EITI and contribute to better governance of the extractive industries.
Additional funding for the guide was provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Electronic copies of the guide are available in Arabic, English and French on the EITI website, the RWI website, and the NDI website. Hard copies are available by request.
Download: Save and print the full text of the Guide (pdf, 2.6MB)
CONTACTS:
Kathy Gest, kgest@ndi.org, 202-728-5535
Matteo Pellegrini, mpellegrini@revenuewatch.org, +44 (0) 7500 805 486
Anders Krakenes, akrakenes@eitransparency.org, +47 22242108
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