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The National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE) a civil society coalition with a membership of fifteen organizations active across the country has been immersed in a three days workshop geared towards increasing its capacity and contextualizing the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) process in a bid to make it relevant to our situation.

Adopted at a public forum on EITI in freetown

We, representatives of citizens groups in Sierra Leone, organized under the banner of the National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE), meeting at a public forum organized at our instance, with the support of DFID, on September 23, 2006 at Hotel Cabenda, Freetown;

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Save the Children strongly welcomes the Prime Minister’s leadership in launching the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. We call on government and business leaders today to seize the opportunity to increase financial transparency, in order to alleviate the corruption and conflict afflicting more than 700 million poor children in mineral-rich countries.

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London/Berlin – A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries, leaving the door open to corruption and hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to a report published today by Transparency International (TI).

Governments and companies signed up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) must now deliver concrete results towards making revenues and payments from oil, gas and mining transparent and accountable, said the global civil society coalition Publish What You Pay (PWYP). Seven resource-rich countries were approved as EITI candidates by the EITI Board in Accra, Ghana on Friday 22 February, bringing the total number of EITI candidate countries to 22.