{"id":1071,"date":"2015-03-02T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2015-03-02T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:16:41","slug":"will-sub-national-reporting-enhance-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2015\/will-sub-national-reporting-enhance-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"WILL SUB-NATIONAL REPORTING ENHANCE TRANSPARENCY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jocelyn Fraser, PhD student in Mining Engineering \/\/ March\u00a02, 2015<\/h3>\n

Over the past few weeks, we have looked at efforts to implement – or plan for – sub-national reporting (SNR) in a number of EITI countries. [1]\u00a0 While there are many country-specific differences to consider, some common questions illustrate the challenges member countries will face as they endeavour to comply with new EITI disclosure requirements.<\/p>\n

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  1. The costs of sub-national reporting.\u00a0 Who will pay to implement sub-national reporting?\u00a0 How will local capacity constraints be addressed?\u00a0 Who will cover the cost of third-party verification? \u00a0Will there be funds to incorporate extractive activities \u2013 such as artisanal and small scale mining \u2013 not currently included in some countries\u2019 national reports?<\/li>\n
  2. Definition of materiality\/thresholds for reporting. \u00a0What types of payments will need to be tracked at the sub-national level?\u00a0 Should donations and social investment be included?\u00a0 Should there be a common threshold for reporting or will each member country make their own determination? Some countries account for non-material transfers as a demonstration of transparency:\u00a0 should this be a requirement for SNR?\u00a0 In cases where SNGs have direct access to resource revenue, how will material amounts be included in the country report?<\/li>\n
  3. The process for sub-national reporting. \u00a0How are local governments to account for resource revenue payments? \u00a0In the absence of proper accounting protocols, a common nomenclature and reporting templates, how will readers be able to compare results from various reporting regions within a country? What guidance and quality assurance will be provided by the EITI?\u00a0 Are central governments prepared to communicate how they determine the percentage of resource-revenue to distribute, as well as the timeline for how often, and when, money is distributed?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Existing EITI requirements do not require disclosure on how resource revenues are used and sub-national reporting does not mandate this as a part of the new EITI standards.\u00a0 Yet, in terms of transparency, this is a critical issue.\u00a0 For sub-national reporting to be relevant for local residents, it will be important to demonstrate that money from the extractive sector is invested to address environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and legitimate community needs.\u00a0 Without an explanation of how resource revenues build healthy communities, there can be little expectation that residents will trust government and for-profit companies to act in a manner that benefits communities hosting extractive operations.<\/p>\n

    [1] For a more fulsome discussion of sub-national reporting issues and case studies on a number of EITI countries see Aguilar, Caspary & Seilar (2011) http:\/\/siteresources. worldbank.org\/INTOGMC\/ Resources\/EITI- WBMiningSectorWEB.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jocelyn Fraser, PhD student in Mining Engineering \/\/ March\u00a02, 2015 Over the past few weeks, we have looked at efforts to implement – or plan for – sub-national reporting (SNR) in a number of EITI countries. [1]\u00a0 While there are many country-specific differences to consider, some common questions illustrate the challenges member countries will face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326282,129760,322977,2247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eiti-mongolia","category-localization","category-student-reflections","category-weekly-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}