What EITI DRC is, end to end

1The Initiative, globally

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard, launched in 2003, for the open and accountable management of oil, gas and mineral resources. Implementing countries commit to disclosing information across the value chain: how licences and contracts are awarded, who owns the companies, how much they pay, and how revenue reaches the budget. Implementation is overseen by a multi-stakeholder group (MSG) in each country, bringing together government, companies and civil society, and is assessed periodically through a process called Validation.

The key point for the DRC: the EITI sets the requirements, but the disclosure is done nationally. So “what EITI says about the DRC” is really “what ITIE-RDC and the Congolese state choose and manage to publish, assessed against the EITI Standard.”

2ITIE-RDC: the national chapter

ITIE-RDC (Initiative pour la Transparence dans les Industries Extractives, République Démocratique du Congo) is the DRC’s national EITI body. The DRC joined the EITI on 27 September 2007. Well corroborated· GOVEITI

It maintains its own website (itierdc.net) alongside the international country page on eiti.org. The chapter reports having published 34 reports and now covers three sectors: mining, hydrocarbons and forestry. Single source· ITIE-RDC self-report

3Governance and the multi-stakeholder group

The chapter is run through an executive committee and a technical secretariat, with the multi-stakeholder group structure that the EITI requires (government, industry and civil-society colleges). The National Coordinator is Jean-Jacques Kayembe Mufwankolo, in post since 2020. Civil society participates principally through PWYP-DRC (Publish What You Pay).

4What it publishes

In short: annual reconciliation reports, a set of thematic reports, a registry of licences, some contracts, partial beneficial-ownership data, and an open-data portal. The chapter has deliberately moved to a “streamlined” model, putting effort into thematic work rather than only the headline reconciliation, and building an online declaration system to collect data from over 200 reporting companies. Corroborated· EITIITIE-RDC

Thematic reports have covered: artisanal and small-scale mining, social and environmental payments, state-owned enterprises, forestry, and the China minerals-for-infrastructure agreement (Sicomines).

5The reports

The chapter now runs on an annual cadence with roughly a two-year lag between fiscal year and publication. Corroborated· EITIITIE-RDC

6The data portal

EITI hosts open data for the DRC by revenue stream and indicator, with CSV export and downloadable charts for production, exports and revenue collection. ITIE-RDC’s own site presents data by company and, where available, by province.

7Contract disclosure (Requirement 2.4)

Under EITI Requirement 2.4, since 1 January 2021 all implementing countries must publish the full text of any contract, licence, concession, annex, addendum or amendment granted or amended from that date. Summaries or redactions do not satisfy it.

At its 2022 validation the DRC was assessed as having fully met Requirement 2.4, scoring 90. Yet the same validation recorded that contracts for eight exploitation licences active in H1 2021 could not be located, and that an MSG working group keeps a list of missing documents. Well corroborated· EITI validationNRGICarter Center

The full picture of where contracts live and how complete disclosure is sits on the Contracts landscape page.

8Beneficial ownership

The DRC does not have a public beneficial-ownership register. The 2018 Mining Code and its implementing decree contain BO-disclosure provisions, and BO data has appeared in EITI reports since 2015, but “not comprehensively”. A May 2021 ITIE-RDC study found disclosure gaps and called for acceleration in line with EITI Requirement 2.5. Corroborated· EITIITIE-RDC study

A register is now in preparation. After a 2024 CENAREF preparatory workshop, ITIE-RDC held a strategic workshop in April 2026, with GIZ/LuCoFFI support, on a draft ministerial decree to create and operationalise a public BO register. As of mid-2026 no decree is signed and no live public register exists. Corroborated· ITIE-RDCCENAREF

9Validation history

• Most recent completed: 85.5 points (“high”) against the 2019 EITI Standard, by Board decision of 13 October 2022. The transparency component scored lower (~78, “moderate”), with corrective actions on MSG oversight, licence allocation, beneficial ownership, state participation, subnational payments, revenue distribution and SOE quasi-fiscal expenditure. Well corroborated· EITI Boardcountry pageITIE-RDC
• In progress: the next Validation, against the 2023 EITI Standard, commenced 1 January 2026 under EITI’s revised (March 2025) Validation model. No new score is published, so the October 2022 result stands. Well corroborated· EITI

10Timeline