Scoping Study for EITI Data Reporting and Access Standards

This scoping study was commissioned to review data formats and recommend standards and bench marks for data output required under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard.

This report has been drafted by a team led by Masuma Farooki, with contributions from Glen Jones, Peter Godwin, Tiffany Steel and Alexander Malden.

The team would like to acknowledge valuable input from Martin Lokanc, Andrew Brian Schloeffel and Sridar Padmanabhan Kannan at the World Bank and Anders Tunold Kråkenes and Sam Bartlett at the EITI Secretariat Oslo.

We are grateful for comments provided by Alberto Jimenez (IMF), Bryan Land (World Bank), Erica Westernberg (NRGI), Kevin Carey (World Bank) and Michael Jarvis (World Bank) during the review process.

The team would like to thank the Revenue Development Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, Open Oil,
the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers and the International Council of Mining and Metals for sharing their organizations’ experiences and providing useful discussions for this work.