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Centre for international environmental studies
30 July 2015

Research on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In the course of her doctoral research Lys Kulamadayil, a PhD Candidate in International Law, spent five weeks in the RD Congo where she explored the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The EITI‘s goal is to advance transparency in the extractive sector by requiring country’s to publish the revenues received and companies to publish the amounts paid. The RD Congo has been part of the EITI process since 2007. Currently, it reports on the oil sector and the industrial mining sector.

As the country is currently in the consolidation process of its 2013 report, Lys Kulamadayil sized the opportunity to observe the process and to have interviews with relevant stakeholders in the province of Katanga, where most of the RD Congo’s mining industry is located. The focus was to observe their perception of the EITI and to identify obstacles in the implementation process.

In the course of her doctoral research Lys Kulamadayil, a PhD Candidate in International Law, spent five weeks in the RD Congo where she explored the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The EITI‘s goal is to advance transparency in the extractive sector by requiring country’s to publish the revenues received and companies to publish the amounts paid. The RD Congo has been part of the EITI process since 2007. Currently, it reports on the oil sector and the industrial mining sector.

As the country is currently in the consolidation process of its 2013 report, Lys Kulamadayil sized the opportunity to observe the process and to have interviews with relevant stakeholders in the province of Katanga, where most of the RD Congo’s mining industry is located. The focus was to observe their perception of the EITI and to identify obstacles in the implementation process.