As the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is new to Solomon Islands, overtime implementing stakeholder’s including the Government, Civil society Groups and Mining Industries faces many challenges with rolling the Initiative.
The Solomon Islands Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (SIEITI) is dedicating itself to ensure the government, companies, landowners and other relevant stakeholders are well informed about resource benefits from the mining industry.
The Solomon Islands Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (SIEITI) is pushing hard for transparency and accountability around the revenue collected from the mining industries in the country.
On Sunday 29 June 2014, Solomon Islands became the first country in the Pacific region and 41 globally to meet the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard by releasing its first EITI report. The report reconciles the payments made by extractive companies to Solomon Islands Government (SIG) against those received by SIG during 2012 and 2013.
Solomon Islands became the first country in the Pacific region, and 41 globally, to meet the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standard, after the country released its first EITI report.
A workshop was held in Honiara on Thursday for members of civil society to discuss the important role that Civil Society Organizations can play to support the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) process in Solomon Islands.
EITI is a series of steps that are taken by a country to publicly share and report information about money flows from oil, gas and mineral resources.
2016 SI EITI Activity Report 