Payment demanded by authorities in certain host countries in advance of exploration activities for the rights to develop an exploration area.

In EITI context, assistance provided to facilitate the implementation of the EITI.

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The obligation of an individual or organisation to account for its activities, to accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in an open manner.

A method of reporting which consolidates payments made by individual companies. This prevents individual company payments or government revenues being identified in a published EITI Report

The annual activity report

Mining activity carried out by persons or groups not employed by a mining company, but working independently, using their own resources.

An organisation, typically an independent audit firm, licensed or otherwise certified to provide financial audits and related services by professional standards or chartering authority for auditors withi [..]

An agreement between an extractive company and the government where the company uses non-monetary exchange (usually infrastructure) for a country’s natural resources. The resources involved may includ [..]

Describes the ‘natural’ person(s) who, directly or indirectly, ultimately own(s) or control(s) a corporate entity, a license