Using the EITI Standard to combat corruption
The oil, gas and mining sectors are some of the world’s most corruption-prone industries. The renewed focus on combatting corruption within the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) provides an opportunity to make significant changes to benefit the lives of people in resource-rich countries.
Through the EITI, over 50 resource-rich countries have committed to disclosing information about their extractive sectors, including the licensing and contracts phase of the value chain which is a known hotspot for corruption. This discussion paper draws on the Transparency International Accountable Mining Programme’s assessment of corruption risks in the mining licensing process of five EITI member countries – Argentina, Ghana, the Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, and Mexico. The paper highlights key lessons for combatting corruption through effective implementation of the licence allocation disclosure requirements in the EITI Standard (Requirement 2).
Improving transparency is a necessary and important strategy for fighting corruption. However, as the country examples in this paper demonstrate, transparency alone is not sufficient to reduce corruption. To effectively tackle corruption, countries need to go beyond disclosing how the process works on paper to deal with the factors that make the licensing stage in mining vulnerable to corruption in practice.
Using the EITI Standard to combat corruption
The paper highlights key lessons for combatting corruption in the mining sector through effective implementation of the licence allocation disclosure requirements in the EITI Standard.
Utilisation de la norme ITIE dans la lutte contre la corruption
Ce document de discussion s’appuie sur l’évaluation des risques de corruption dans le processus d’octroi de licences d’exploitation minière de cinq pays membres de l’ITIE.
El uso del Estándar EITI para combatir la corrupción
Este documento de discusión se basa en la evaluación del Accountable Mining Programme sobre los riesgos de corrupción en el proceso de otorgamiento de licencias mineras de cinco países miembros de la EITI.