Civil Society Organisations committed to transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sectors have resolved to close ranks, forge common front to advance good governance of the extractive sector in Nigeria.
Rising from an enlarged all inclusive consultative forum convened by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative NEITI, the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) underlined the need for unity, commitment to reconciliation to ensure effective discharge of their roles as an important stakeholder in the NEITI/EITI process.
The CSO forum further resolved to commence healing and reconciliation process to build stronger partnership in using NEITI reports to push for reforms under the NEITI/EITI principles of transparency and accountability.
At the meeting, an all inclusive Committee to harmonize existing frameworks & platforms of engagements into a comprehensive NEITI-CSO Constituency Guideline for the sector was set up.
The new guideline to be developed is to be modeled after EITI Constituency guideline released at the Dakar Global Conference in June this year.
