{"id":1055,"date":"2015-02-21T02:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:31:41","slug":"transparency-the-long-and-winding-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2015\/transparency-the-long-and-winding-road\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSPARENCY: THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jocelyn Fraser, \u00a0<\/span>Ph.D Student\u00a0in Mining Engineering \/\/ Feb 21, 2015<\/h3>\n

The EITI has recently introduced requirements for disclosure of sub-national transfers – money collected at the local level from extractive companies or money transferred to local governments as a form of redistribution of mining and oil and gas revenues collected by the national government.\u00a0 It has been said that every EITI member country has its own unique approach to meeting EITI requirements and the situation seems ready to be replicated with the requirement for sub-national reporting.\u00a0 With no common nomenclature and no reporting templates, each country will grapple to develop its own methodology.\u00a0 Countries of conflict are likely to face quite different issues with sub-national reporting than established or emerging democracies.\u00a0 And countries with a long history of resource extraction may face different issues that regions, such as the Philippines or Mongolia, where the extractives sector is relatively new. \u00a0Some EITI countries grapple with corruption yet have strong civil society watchdogs.\u00a0 Others operate under totalitarian regimes where dissenting views are seldom heard, and rarely tolerated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sub-national reporting is a positive step in that it requires government, companies embracing their social responsibility, and communities to work together.\u00a0 It will also be important to build linkages with other initiatives complementary to EITI to ensure greater accountability, promote better governance, and build stronger institutions \u2013 the keys to improving the lives of average citizens.\u00a0 Supply chain verification and traceability, mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1896,[1] and conflict mineral certification as proposed under Dodd Frank are two such initiatives. \u00a0New international disclosure requirements, such as those contained within the European Union\u2019s Transparency Directive and the Government of Canada\u2019s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act should also serve to drive enhanced transparency amongst extractives companies domiciled within these regions.\u00a0 Adherence to the principles of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) are needed to ensure indigenous peoples approval has been secured in advance of development.\u00a0 And many groups will need to be involved in the ongoing discussion about how countries ensure resource revenues create the greatest good for the greatest number of their citizens.
\n[1] The resolution calls upon companies to exercise due diligence on suppliers and origins of minerals purchased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jocelyn Fraser, \u00a0Ph.D Student\u00a0in Mining Engineering \/\/ Feb 21, 2015 The EITI has recently introduced requirements for disclosure of sub-national transfers – money collected at the local level from extractive companies or money transferred to local governments as a form of redistribution of mining and oil and gas revenues collected by the national government.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326277,322977,2247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eiti-country-case-studies","category-student-reflections","category-weekly-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}