Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative -EITI- in Colombia is a commitment assumed by the national government to improve transparency and the fight against corruption in the mining, energy and non-renewable natural resources sector. EITI emerged from an international initiative on the issue, to which Colombia adhered and was accepted in 2014. Under this initiative, Colombia committed to develop a National Action Plan and a series of annual reports with economic, fiscal and legal information regarding extractive industries in the country. These reports also provide information on economic contributions to these from the private sector and the government, making accounting public for all citizens. As part of the initiative, a Committee is formed by representatives of the national government, hydrocarbon mining companies and industry, and civil society organizations. This body is responsible for the management, control, monitoring and oversight of the initiative, its reports and its compliance and implementation of the action plan. They are also responsible for supporting the implementation of the action plan activities related to awareness and capacity building at the local and national levels.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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