National Commission for the Implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a standard for the governance of natural resource extraction, which more than 50 countries have implemented as a commitment to improving the transparency and accountability of their extractive industry. The Initiative was initially launched by the United Kingdom in 2003 and soon became an international effort formalized as a not-for-profit organization registered in Norway. It is coordinated by the EITI Board, a mult¬i-stakeholder body composed by 20 representatives of implementing countries, supporting countries, private extracting companies, investors and civil society organizations. Countries that implement the standard must create a multi-stakeholder oversight board in which companies and civil society organizations participate. The Dominican Republic joined the Initiative in 2016 and that same year created the ?National Commission for the Implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative? through decree number 248-16. Four civil society organizations are part of this oversight board. The international EITI Board has declared the country?s efforts towards transparency as ?significant?.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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