Twelve Civil society organisations (CSOs) (including Caritas Zambia) working on issues pertaining to extractive industries in Zambia have called on the Government to implement the publication of beneficial ownerships of mining companies to enhance transparency.
The Global Transparency Initiative, which promotes good governance on natural resources through the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), recently agreed to make beneficial ownership transparent, an obligation for all 49 member countries.
With this new development, the civil society organisations said Zambia should build on its great strides in the EITI implementation by embracing reporting on beneficial ownership in full in its EITI reports.