{"id":5357,"date":"2023-08-24T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T09:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T09:16:22","slug":"uganda-to-be-validated-by-eiti-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/08\/24\/uganda-to-be-validated-by-eiti-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to be Validated by EITI in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new report on Uganda\u2019s extractives and mining sector has recommended mainstreaming and systematic disclosure of Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) data and information in a bid to create awareness about the sector.<\/p>\n<p>This was during a regional stakeholder\u2019s engagement held on Wednesday at Hoima Buffalo Hotel in Hoima City to disseminate the EITI report for the fiscal year 2020\/21 and create awareness on beneficial ownership in relation to business and Human Rights organized by BAPENECO working together with Kitara Civil Society Organization (KICSON).<\/p>\n<p>While presenting the sector report for fiscal year 2020-2021, Dan Denis a statistician at Uganda Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (UGEITI) reveals that more awareness needs to be created regarding the sector adding that there is need to create a roadmap for implementation of an open data platform that centralizes all the EITI data.<\/p>\n<p>The report further recommends clear criteria of awarding contracts by government to different companies and individuals and inclusion of the contribution of the informal sector in the mining sector.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Kanakulya, a compliance officer at UGEITI says Uganda will be validated by the EITI in October for checks and balances regarding the extractives sector.<\/p>\n<p>He challenges locals to interest themselves in seeking information in the report about the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The report tackled the revenues generated from the extractive industries, the national local content policy among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige A new report on Uganda\u2019s extractives and mining sector has recommended mainstreaming and systematic disclosure of Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) data and information in a bid to create awareness about the sector. This was during a regional stakeholder\u2019s engagement held on Wednesday at Hoima Buffalo Hotel in Hoima City to disseminate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-business","9":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}