Paris 2011

The EITI Global Conference 2-3 March 2011

The 5th EITI Global Conference in Paris is now at an end. Heads of states, government leaders, companies and civil society organisations gathered at the OECD in Paris to share how EITI has led to improvements in their country and how to shape the future of the EITI.

Read reports from the Conference

Read updates in the right sidebar of this page, follow EITIorg on Twitter. Video recordings from all the plenary sessions, and audio recordings from all the parallel sessions are now available. Pictures from the conference are available at EITI's Flickr account.

The EITI International Secretariat has published the final conference report, which highlights the sessions, speakers, National Exhibition, Chair's Award and media coverage of the event.

Speeches and statements

To see the full list of speakers, updated with speeches, audio and video recordings of the presentations as available, go to the programme section.

The video "Transparency Counts" premiered

The EITI Progress Report now available

The 2009-2011 EITI Progress Report was launched on the first day of the conference. The report is available in English and French. Contact the Secretariat for hard copies.

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Conference Updates

4 March 2011
“Walking the talk” of EITI - With one-third of the 35 implementing countries now compliant and many more working toward compliance in 2011, “what comes after validation?” was a recurring theme today
4 March 2011
Highlights from the Paris conference: Day 2 - The theme of the second day of the Conference was the future of the EITI and revenue transparency
4 March 2011
Looking back, looking ahead - As an EITI practitioner for the past four years with in-depth experience in six implementing countries, the closing of the fifth global conference is a time to reflect for a moment on the bigger picture of where the initiative is headed
3 March 2011
Yemen? Yeah man - Yemen was in the news again today