Transparency and accountability in the extractive industry sector is crucial to mitigating the effects of the “resource curse” in countries endowed with natural resources.
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More than 50 OGP countries depend on oil, gas and minerals as their most important sources of government and export revenues. However, evidence shows that their performance on human development indicators compares unfavorably to less-endowed countries. At the root of this underperformance is the failure by governments to properly address the institutional and policy challenges that come with the governance of natural resources.
Open government approaches can help detect corruption, safeguard community interests, improve the investment climate, and support environmental sustainability.
Extractive industry commitments are a common area of activity within OGP and they are more frequently impactful and complete than commitments in other policy areas. According to assessments by OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM), more than one in four extractives commitments have the potential to transform the status quo – double the rate of other commitments.
OGP and the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) work together to promote openness across the extractives sector, including in areas like beneficial ownership transparency, state-owned enterprises, contract transparency, gender and environment. OGP amplified the effectiveness of EITI by adding visibility to EITI commitments echoed in OGP action plans. The paper Seeking Synergy: OGP and EITI provides recommendations on how to leverage both initiatives to make meaningful reforms in extractive governance.
More than 50 OGP countries depend on oil, gas and minerals as their most important sources of government and export revenues. Explore this factsheet for more information on OGP commitments aimed at making the extractives industries sector more transparent.
With the future of the world’s fisheries facing serious threats due to overfishing, Seychelles is the first nation to publish its report in Partnership with the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI). This small island nation is working to protect the future of this sector, upon which its people and economy are massively dependent.
We have a unique opportunity. OGP is an excellent, established platform that can be used to implement the principles and obligations in the Escazú Agreement, especially ...
" Las herramientas, mecanismos, instrumentos y plataformas de transparencia, participación y colaboración que constituyen el proceso de co-creación de planes de acción de gobierno abierto contribuyen a la implementación del Acuerdo de Escazú. Del mismo modo, el Acuerdo de Escazú…
Extractive industry commitments have been consistently popular among members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), showing high levels of ambition…
2023, Document, PDF
A look at global progress and member-level examples of applying open government principles to the extractive industries
2021, Document, PDF
Women and gender minorities often face disproportionate harms from oil, gas and mineral extraction and are likely to access economic…
2021, Outbound Link, Web Page
The oil, gas and mining sectors are some of the world’s most corruption-prone industries. The renewed focus on combatting corruption…
2020, Outbound Link, Web Page
Transparency International’s Accountable Mining programme is developing a series of ‘maps’ to demystify the licensing process in countries around the…
2020, Outbound Link, Web Page
This paper explores how OGP and EITI members can leverage both platforms to make meaningful reforms in the extractives industry,…
2019, Research Product, Web Page
This report focuses on the implementation of natural resource commitments for better development and open government outcomes.
2019, Document, PDF
This issue brief is a product of collaboration between the OGP Openness in Natural Resources Working Group and its co-anchors:…
2019, Document, PDF
The following guidance notes, standard terms of reference and templates have been issued by the EITI International Secretariat to provide…
2018, Outbound Link, Web Page
This issue brief is a product of collaboration between the OGP Openness in Natural Resources Working Group and its co-anchors:…
2017, Document, PDF
This issue brief is a product of collaboration between the OGP Openness in Natural Resources Working Group and its co-anchors:…
2017, Document, PDF
The 2017 Resource Governance Index, gathered by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), measures the quality of governance in the…
2017, Outbound Link, Web Page
This is an archived site that was created in 2015 through the research of WRI and its partners to show…
2015, Outbound Link, Web Page
The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) has created a series of short, illustrated overviews of key topics in their portfolio…
2015, Outbound Link, Web Page
This resource from NRGI and EITI highlights strong contract clauses and explore how others could be improved.
2014, Outbound Link, Web Page
In late October 2012, OpenOil gathered a group of world class oil experts and professionals to jointly write a book…
2012, Outbound Link, Web Page
, Outbound Link, Web Page
Explore the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative's (EITI) guide to implementing the EITI Standard.
, Outbound Link, Web Page
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), is a free, non-proprietary open data standard for public contracting, implemented by over 30…
, Outbound Link, Web Page
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) have much in common. These global multi-stakeholder initiatives both aim to deepen open governance and transparency and share a number of strategic and thematic objectives. With more than 30 shared member countries, they offer a powerful platform to drive positive governance outcomes.
In recent years, the open government agenda has taken on increasing relevance in mining public policy based on the implementation of reforms, regulations, and tools focused on transparency and participatory dialogue...
En los últimos años la agenda de gobierno abierto ha tomado una creciente relevancia en la política pública minera a partir de la implementación de reformas, normativas y herramientas centradas en la transparencia del sector y el diálogo participativo. Argentina…
In this month’s issue of Faces of Open Government, Cielo D. Magno, Undersecretary for the Department of Finance’s Fiscal Policy and Monitoring Group, shares her insights on how openness can uniquely impact the extractives industry, women, and government.
La Semana de Gobierno Abierto (OGW por sus siglas en inglés) se celebra en mayo de cada año para reunir a los gobiernos y la sociedad civil y encontrar soluciones a los problemas más apremiantes que enfrentan las comunidades a…
Over the last decade, OGP members have made 159 commitments to make the governance of gas, oil, and mineral extraction more open to the public. Extractive sector reforms are notoriously politically and financially fraught. Yet these commitments achieve stronger early…
Durante la última década, los miembros de OGP han hecho 159 compromisos enfocados en lograr que la gobernanza de la extracción de gas, petróleo y minerales sea más abierta al público. Las reformas del sector extractivo son notoriamente complicadas desde…
We will set up a forum to ensure transparency in the implementation of Community Development Agreements (CDAs), Environmental Management Plans (ESMPs) and 13% derivation principle within the extractive industry in Plateau State. Plateau is the first state in the country…
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