Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Results achieved by the World Bank with the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors in 2014 include: (1) Activities supported by the Extractive Industries Transparency Imitative (EITI) Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) facilitated and built capacity for EITI implementation while also paving the way for broader policy reform in the extractive sector in several countries. More than half of the MDTF funds have gone to support work in Africa where Cameroon DRC Guinea and Sierra Leone advanced to EITI Compliant status and Ethiopia Senegal and Seychelles became EITI Candidate Countries. Significant gains were made in East Asia and Pacific where Myanmar and Papua New Guinea advanced to candidacy status. In Europe and Central Asia Kazakhstan achieved Compliant status while the Ukraine was admitted as a Candidate. Latin America’s participation in EITI also grew with Guatemala advancing to become the second Compliant country in the region. (2) To improve global knowledge management in extractive industries sector governance and increase stakeholders’ understanding of the EITI Standard several global knowledge initiatives were launched. One was a series of regional conferences and workshops organized jointly by the World Bank and the EITI International Secretariat held in Colombia Cote d´Ivoire Indonesia Kazakhstan and Tanzania. In addition specialized training on communications was conducted in four workshops entitled “Talking Matters” and a pilot Community of Practice was launched to bring together EITI implementers in an online forum. (3) To enhance the capacity of local populations and institutions to hold their government to account on investment of public revenues generated by extractive industries the EITI MDTF continued to support civil society organizations (CSOs) through outreach training and capacity building. The World Bank administered CSO Direct Support Program completed nine projects (Guatemala Indonesia Kazakhst