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Wednesday, 29th February 2012
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Friday, 16th December 2011
The Third Report of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) covering the period July 1, 2009 up to and including June 30, 2010 was published on December 16, 2011. Read


Mr. Samson S. Tokpah
Tuesday, 13th December 2011
After nearly three months of leadership vacuum, the Secretariat of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) now has a Head and Deputy Head. Read


Tuesday, 13th December 2011
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has completed its 3rd EITI Report covering payments made to the Government of Liberia by one hundred twenty-one (121) mining, oil, agriculture, and forestry companies during the 12-month period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Read


Friday, 13th May 2011
As part of its public outreach programs, the LEITI held a two- day interactive workshop with traditional leaders, explaining the LEITI process and how they (traditional leaders) can demand transparency and accountability in the natural resources sector. Read


Friday, 4th February 2011
The Chief Champion of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) and President of the Republic of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during the week appointed a new Multi-stakeholders Steering Group (MSG) to steer the affairs of the EITI process in Liberia for the next three years. The appointment of new MSG is in-keeping with the Act which established the LEITI. Read


Thursday, 27th May 2010
As part of its communication and outreach strategy, the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) began the dissemination and discussion of the 2nd EITI Reports of Liberia with citizens and residents of the fifteen counties in Liberia. Read


Thursday, 18th February 2010
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) has completed and published its 2nd EITI Report covering the period July 1, 2009-June 30, 2009 and involving seventy-one (71) companies and five (5) agencies of Government. Read


Wednesday, 17th February 2010
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has completed its 2nd EITI Report covering payments made to the Government of Liberia by seventy-one (71) mining, oil, agriculture, and forestry companies during the 12-month period from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. Read


Tuesday, 2nd February 2010
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) has begun work to investigate and reconcile unresolved discrepancies contained in its first EITI Report published early 2009. Read


Friday, 29th January 2010
The First Report of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) covering the period July 1, 2007 up to and including June 30, 2008 was published on February 9, 2009. Read


LEITI MSG Meeting
Thursday, 15th October 2009
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) was yesterday October 14, 2009 designated as EITI compliant during the 10th meeting of the EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Read


LEITI Outreach meeting
Wednesday, 14th October 2009
The Chairman of the EITI international Board, Dr. Peter Eigen and Mr. Eddie Rich visited Liberia from October 4-7, 2009. The visit followed the earlier visit of a joint EITI/World Bank/African Development Mission to Liberia in May of this year. Read


Tuesday, 13th October 2009
Ensuring transparency over all funds paid to Government of Liberia by mining, oil, logging and agriculture companies is not only a matter of complying with the new LEITI Act, it is a matter of necessity for both the Government and companies as well as civil society. Read


Dr Peter EIGEN
Friday, 4th September 2009
The Chairman of the EITI international Board, Dr. Peter Eigen is scheduled to visit Liberia and other EITI countries in the West African region in October of this year. Dr. Eigen’s visit to Liberia follows the earlier visit of a joint EITI/World Bank/African Development Mission to Liberia in May. Read


President Johnson Sirleaf signs into law ‘An Act establishing the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI).'
Tuesday, 14th July 2009
Members of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) Multi-stakeholders Steering Group have praised the President of Liberia, H. E. Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and the Honorable Liberian Legislature for the historic passage of the Act Establishing the Liberian Extractive ... Read


EITI/World Bank/AFBD Visiting Mission with the leadership of the Liberian Senate
Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
A high-level joint mission from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) international Secretariat in Oslo, Norway and the Head Offices of the World Bank and the African Development Bank arrives in Liberia to visit with the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) and hold discussions with LEITI stakeholders and senior officials of the Liberian Government on how to deepen and sustain the work of the LEITI. Read


Stakeholders at the 2nd EITI Retreat
Monday, 23rd March 2009
Over sixty LEITI Stakeholders representing logging, mining and oil companies as well as the Government of Liberia, Civil society and Liberia Development partners have committed themselves to expeditiously resolving all discrepancies contained in the recently published first EITI Report of Liberia. Read


Tuesday, 3rd March 2009
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) has won the EITI Implementing Country Award announced for the first time by the EITI in Doha, Qatar during the 4th EITI Conference. Read


Tuesday, 3rd March 2009
The Draft Act to establish the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) as a statutory body in Liberia got its first reading in the Honorable House of Representative of Liberia on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Read


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    19th April 2013 | Size: 139 KB | File Type: pdf
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    15th April 2013 | Size: 65 KB | File Type: pdf
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    12th April 2013 | Size: 159 KB | File Type: pdf
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    21st February 2013 | Size: 161 KB | File Type: pdf
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    22nd November 2012 | Size: 116 KB | File Type: pdf
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    25th May 2012 | Size: 152 KB | File Type: pdf