"Mining steps into the future"

The creation of a conducive policy environment to unleash the potential propulsive development effect of mineral wealth was one of the great outcomes of the 2019 National Budget...Commendably, the 2019 National Budget Statement expressed Government’s urgent desire to adopt EITI...

There are four steps required to join EITI: the preparatory, disclosure, dissemination and sign-up phases. To sign up, Government must...; [i]ssue an unequivocal statement of its intention to support EITI implementation; make a commitment to work with Civil Society and companies on EITI implementation; appoint a senior individual to lead the EITI effort; and publish a cost-work plan with measurable targets and time-frames for implementation and assessment of constraints on capacity of stakeholders to participate.

By expressing commitment to join EITI through the 2019 National Budget Statement, Government has taken the first step. A long road lies ahead. But a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step. It must not be lost that this is not the first time that Government has expressed commitment to embrace EITI or resuscitate ZMRTI. This time, our enthusiasm is fuelled by our partnership with Parliament, especially the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development which requested a training workshop on EITI.