What use is the (D-)EITI? The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Germany under scrutiny

The international initiative for a transparent extractive sector and its German implementation have generated little public interest. The D-EITI (Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative) and its reports are also little known in the German NGO world. The paper gives an overview of the structure and functioning of the EITI, the implementation of the EITI in Germany and assesses the content of the EITI reports so far from a civil society perspective.