Estudio de Viabilidad para Informar la Decisión de Adhesión de Ecuador al Estándar de Transparencia de las Industrias Extractivas (EITI).

Following a Board Member’s request for documentation of the EGPS grant application process at the EITI Board meeting on October 16-17 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the EGPS Secretariat has drafted the outline of its processes and procedures for EGPS grants. See document attached below. 

A Manual on Integrity Due Diligence for Licensing in Extractive Sectors

Cari L. Votava, Jeanne M. Hauch and Francesco Clementucci

Reducing corruption in the extractive sectors is now a high priority of the global development agenda because of the degree to which such corruption can impede economic development and contribute to illicit financial flows (IFFs). This kind of corruption can prove complicated and intractable to eliminate because mitigating corruption in natural resource and extractive sectors requires enhancing transparency and improving the quality and effectivenes

Oil discoveries can constitute a major positive and exogenous shock to economic activity, but the resource curse hypothesis would suggest they might also be detrimental to growth over the long run. This paper utilizes a new methodology for estimating growth underperformance to examine the extent to which discoveries depress the growth path of a country following a discovery and prior to production starting.

This paper is not mentioning the EITI, however it covers issues which are relevant for the EITI process.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is an international standard to ‘promote open and accountable management of natural resources’. By encouraging governments, extractive companies, civil society and the public to engage in discourse around transparency of the extractive sector, it aims to facilitate the management of a country’s natural resource wealth to benefit all its citizens.

This scoping study was commissioned to review data formats and recommend standards and bench marks for data output required under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard.

This report has been drafted by a team led by Masuma Farooki, with contributions from Glen Jones, Peter Godwin, Tiffany Steel and Alexander Malden.

The team would like to acknowledge valuable input from Martin Lokanc, Andrew Brian Schloeffel and Sridar Padmanabhan Kannan at the World Bank and Anders Tunold Kråkenes and Sam Bartlett at the EITI Secretariat Oslo.

Clustered Country Program Evaluation Synthesis Report

A report by the World Bank on sharing revenue from extractive resources in with affected communities in Mozambique