Challenges
Objectives
Axis Eight
Environmental Impact
Requirement 6.4
| No. | Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Seeking to obtain an updated and comprehensive report on carbon footprint tracking in oil, gas and mining sectors, or urging relevant ministries to contract with a specialized international or local entity to prepare it. | The Board | National Companies | A clear starting baseline on which to build a comprehensive strategy for addressing carbon footprint impact on the environment and benefiting from carbon credit advantages | First half of 2025 | - | Work in progress |
| Support Team | International Companies Carbon Impact Committee chaired by Oil Minister's Advisor | ||||||
| General Company for Carbon Economics | |||||||
| 2 | Specialized workshop for members of the Health and Environment Committee in Parliament dedicated to reviewing carbon impact on the environment in Iraq and urging the issuance of a law to implement applicable international standards. | The Board | Parliament | Putting the extractive industry on the right track to address carbon impact and comply with applicable international standards | First half of 2025 | 4.75 | Work in progress |
| Note: Must first inquire to determine the existence of this law or if any entity is currently working on issuing it | National Secretariat | Ministry of Oil | |||||
| Ministry of Industry | |||||||
| Ministry of Health | |||||||
| Ministry of Environment | |||||||
| General Company for Carbon Economics | |||||||
| 3 | Study of compliance with requirements for installing flared gas meters and associated gas processing and utilization units, and identifying completion rates, obstacles, and necessary recommendations. | Companies | Technical Department in Ministry of Oil | Identifying quantities of flared gas and procedures followed so far to address it and reduce resulting environmental damage. | First half of 2025 | - | Work in progress |
| Support Team | Public Companies | ||||||
| Licensing Round Companies | |||||||
| 4 | Specialized meeting attended by the Oil Minister, Deputy Minister for Extraction, and senior leadership to review the study prepared in the above paragraph and discuss challenges, solutions, and recommendations including providing financial allocation and obligating beneficiary companies. | The Board | Technical Department/Oil | Monitoring dimensions of imminent risk and unifying visions and efforts to address it. | First half of 2025 | - | Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Studies Department/Oil | ||||||
| National Companies | |||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 5 | Modifying terms of reference for upcoming transparency reports to include details of environmental status and outputs of studies, reports, and meetings mentioned above. | The Board | Broader Stakeholders | Informing citizens about damages resulting from environmental impacts of extractive industries | First half of 2025 | - | Completed |
| National Secretariat | Media | (See terms of reference for 2022 report: paragraph (1.2.12)) | |||||
| Independent Administrator | |||||||
| 6 | Three introductory workshops in selected cities adjacent to oil, gas and mining sites to inform residents about environmental risks and their role in addressing them. | The Board | Residents of Adjacent Areas | Educating residents and informing them about damages and activating their role in reducing risks. | First half of 2025 | 14.25 | Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Provincial Council | ||||||
| Civil Society | |||||||
| Media | |||||||
| 7 | Seeking to include in current and new oil, gas and mining contracts provisions containing preferential privileges and contractual facilities for companies that adopt and commit to clean energy use policies. | The Board | Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department | Greater commitment to clean environment standards. | First half of 2025 | - | Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | National Companies | ||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 8 | Contacting the Studies Department in the Ministry of Oil to provide us with previous years' reports of field inspection teams responsible for monitoring and following up compliance with HSE system implementation in extractive sectors, showing implementation rates, deviation rates and their causes through periodic reports submitted to the Minister and senior leadership. | The Board | Ministry of Oil | Following up on HSE system implementation extent and addressing causes of deviations | First half of 2025 | - | Work in progress |
| Support Team | National Companies | ||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| Total | 19 | ||||||
Challenges
Objectives
Axis Six
Systematic Disclosure
Requirements 6.2, 4.1, and 4.9 of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standards
| No. | Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Workshop attended by specialized lawyers dedicated to reviewing laws and regulations to ensure there are no provisions that conflict with systematic disclosure standards | National Secretariat | Legal departments in relevant government entities and ministries | 1. Ensuring systematic disclosure does not conflict with any laws or legal provisions in Iraq | January to April 2024 | 4.75 | 1. Work in progress |
| 2. Delivering workshop recommendations to the entity to be contracted for developing the roadmap | 2. Work in progress | ||||||
| 2 | Contracting with a specialized external entity to prepare a roadmap for implementing systematic disclosure requirements in Iraq | National Secretariat | Specialized companies | 1. Establishing a clear, time-bound mechanism for implementing the systematic disclosure project and defining the responsibilities of relevant entities | January to April 2024 | To be determined later based on funding availability and funding entity | 1. Work in progress |
| Board of Trustees | 2. Identifying capabilities and obstacles that prevent implementation | 2. Work in progress | |||||
| 3. Identifying data included and that can be made available to the public or that needs further verification | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| 3 | Encouraging disclosing entities to provide required information when available without needing to wait for currently unavailable information. | Board of Trustees | International Companies | Greater knowledge of the Initiative's requirement related to data disclosure and expanding the scope of systematic disclosure knowledge. | January to April 2024 | - | Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | State-owned Companies | ||||||
| Relevant Government Entities | |||||||
| 4 | Organizing three introductory workshops for government entities and extractive companies to inform them about the systematic disclosure program and its importance in implementing transparency. Aimed at raising awareness and confirming the government's commitment to implementing the Initiative. | Board of Trustees | Government Entities | Greater knowledge of the Initiative's requirement related to data disclosure and expanding the scope of systematic disclosure knowledge. | May – August 2024 | 14.25 | Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Extractive Companies | ||||||
| 5 | Three workshops to train administrative units and persons who will be assigned to manage the project in relevant entities to inform them about project requirements and steps in the roadmap and establish an implementation timeline | National Secretariat | Relevant Government Entities | Providing an integrated coordinated work environment that facilitates project implementation and follow-up. | May – August 2024 | 14.25 | Work in progress |
| Public Companies | |||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 6 | Determining the type of data and level of detail to be disclosed and the mechanism for data comprehensiveness and accuracy | Board of Trustees | Relevant Government Entities | Publishing data related to the extractive sector and avoiding publishing non-essential data while ensuring reliability and comprehensiveness of published data. | September - December 2024 | - | Work in progress |
| Support Team | Public Companies | ||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 7 | Commencing publication of systematic disclosure data | Support Team | Relevant Government Entities | Updated and reliable data in a format consistent with disclosure requirements and available to the public | September - December 2024 | - | Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Public Companies | ||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 8 | Introductory workshop about the Ishtar system | International Companies | Board of Trustees | 1. Introducing the Board to the Ishtar system and determining if it is sufficient for data publication | September - December 2024 | 4.75 | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | 2. Considering the possibility of integrating it with the systematic disclosure project | 2. Work in progress | |||||
| 3. Exploring the possibility of publishing the licensing register within it | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| 9 | Coordination with the Media Office for website publication | National Secretariat | Media Office in the Ministry of Oil | Wide-scale data publication | - | Addressed in the publication axis and media plan | |
| 10 | Paragraph (10) of the Independent Administrator's recommendations for the 2021 report regarding systematic disclosure. | 1. Encouraging disclosing entities to publish data when ready without waiting for other required information to be published | - | 1. Work in progress | |||
| Disclosure challenges and preventing disclosing entities from delivering data in the required form and time despite ministry directives. | 2. Conducting a feasibility study to examine potential obstacles to implementing systematic disclosure | 2. Addressed in paragraph (2) above | |||||
| 3. Continuous updates to the Authority's website by adding links to data published on disclosure sites. | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| Total | 38 |
Challenges
Objectives
Axis Seven
beneficial ownership
Requirement 2.5 of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standards
| No. | Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Contracting with a company to create a beneficial ownership database and publish it on the Initiative's website and websites of relevant entities in ministries. | National Secretariat | SOMO | A register available to government entities, extractive companies and broader stakeholders. | January – June 2024 | To be determined later based on funding availability and funding entity | Work in progress |
| Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department | |||||||
| Public Companies | |||||||
| 2 | Organizing three introductory workshops based on the international expert's report and addressing the minimum threshold for beneficial ownership, defining politically exposed persons, disclosure level, and who will be included in beneficial ownership disclosure. | National Secretariat | SOMO | Reaching a common understanding regarding the level of beneficial ownership disclosure. | January – June 2024 | 14.25 | Work in progress |
| Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department | |||||||
| Public Companies | |||||||
| 3 | Creating a template for beneficial ownership data in the 2022 report and beyond. | Board of Trustees | Board of Trustees | Implementing beneficial ownership requirements for reports issued before 2021. | January – June 2024 | - | Work in progress |
| Independent Administrator Support Team | |||||||
| 4 | Updating terms of reference for transparency reports to include placing the beneficial ownership template among the requirements of the terms of reference for the 2022 report and beyond. | Board of Trustees | Independent Administrator | Implementing beneficial ownership requirements for the 2019 report and beyond. | July – December 2024 | - | Completed |
| National Secretariat | (See terms of reference for 2022 report: paragraph (1.2.11)) | ||||||
| 5 | Discussing and adopting procedures to ensure accuracy of beneficial ownership data, timeline for updating it, and format for public publication. | Board of Trustees | SOMO | Ensuring the existence of an approved, accurate, updated, and publicly available beneficial ownership database. | July – December 2024 | - | Work in progress |
| Independent Administrator Support Team | Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department | ||||||
| Public Companies | |||||||
| 6 | Recommendation No. 4 from the Independent Administrator's recommendations for the 2021 report: | Board of Trustees | Independent Administrator | 1. Publishing the updated version of the international expert's report | July - December 2024 | - | 1. Work in progress |
| The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative requirement 2.5 recommends maintaining a publicly available register. The transparency report should indicate how to access it. The recommendations of the international expert's study should also be considered, which include (11) recommendations for the Board and National Secretariat, (4) for the government, (2) for companies, and (2) for civil society. | National Secretariat | International and Private Companies | 2. Developing a plan to implement the expert's recommendations | 2. Work in progress | |||
| The ultimate goal is to disclose the beneficial owners of all contracted companies or those intending to contract. | |||||||
| 7 | Recommendation No. 5 from the Independent Administrator's recommendations for the 2021 report: | Board of Trustees | International and Private Companies | 1. The Board updating the roadmap to consider reducing the materiality threshold or identifying more persons in the definition of politically exposed persons | July – December 2024 | - | 1. Work in progress |
| Requirement 2.5.f states: The Board should agree on the definition of "beneficial owner" or politically exposed persons and public officials and their family members, partners and close associates such as heads of state, heads of government, ministers and their deputies, members of parliament, governors and provincial councils, political party leaders, members of supreme or constitutional courts, financial oversight and integrity officials, central bank management, ambassadors and chargés d'affaires, high-level officers, general managers and boards of directors of public companies. | National Secretariat | 2. Coordinating with other countries to benefit from their experiences | 2. Work in progress | ||||
| Total | 14.25 |
Challenges
Objectives
Fifth axis
Federal budget
Standard 3.2, 3.3, 4.10 Licensing Round Contracts, Annual Budget
| No. | Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Contracting with international and local experts to prepare a specialized comparative study on the federal budget and the deviation between allocations and actual expenditures for the years 2021 and beyond. Focus on the three-year budget and analyze completion rates under Federal Board of Supreme Audit reports with emphasis on social benefits and petrodollar allocations. | The Board | World Bank | 1. Professional evaluation of the three-year budget experience and the extent to which the government program is reflected in its items and providing effective recommendations. | Second half of 2024 | To be determined later based on funding availability and funding entity | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Ministry of Finance | 2. Measuring the extent of deviation between allocation and actual expenditure. | 2. Work in progress | ||||
| Ministry of Planning | 3. Determining the actual amounts of petrodollar and regional development spent and measuring spending trends that do not represent a developmental axis. | 3. Work in progress | |||||
| Federal Board of Supreme Audit | 4. A new model for separating operational budget from investment budget. | 4. Work in progress | |||||
| National Companies | |||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 2 | Specialized workshop for Parliament and related government entities to discuss the extent of agreement between federal budget items and the government program within the framework of the above study and provide recommendations | The Board | Parliament | 1. Review deviations and ways to address them and spending trends that do not represent a developmental axis | Second half of 2024 | 12 | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Ministry of Finance | 2. Creating opportunities for sustainable development | 2. Work in progress | ||||
| Ministry of Planning | 3. Adopting the principle of program budgeting instead of line-item budgeting | 3. Work in progress | |||||
| Federal Board of Supreme Audit | 4. Review petrodollar spending amounts and regional development | 4. Work in progress | |||||
| World Bank University Professors | |||||||
| Civil Society | |||||||
| 3 | Three workshops to discuss social benefits and ways to benefit from them in developing residential areas near the sites | The Board | Residents of beneficiary areas | Monitor the following results through impact surveys and provide recommendations: | First half of 2025 | 14.25 | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Parliament | 1. Follow up on company performance and provincial councils and identify violations in spending items, their causes, and provide recommendations for treatment | 2. Work in progress | ||||
| Provincial Council | 2. Inform residents about the expected benefits from allocated amounts | ||||||
| National Companies | |||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| Financial Committee in Civil Society | |||||||
| 4 | Study on the possibility of generalizing Article 26/6 text in the fourth licensing round contracts related to allocating 10% of the contract value for investment in improving infrastructure conditions in neighboring areas outside company areas | Companies | Residents of beneficiary areas | Obtaining the study and presenting it as a proposal to relevant entities | Second quarter of 2024 | To be determined later based on funding availability and funding entity | Work in progress |
| Civil Society | Provincial Council | ||||||
| National Secretariat | National Companies | ||||||
| International Companies | |||||||
| 5 | Updating the terms of reference for upcoming transparency reports to require the Independent Administrator to include more detailed information about social benefits in disclosure templates | Board of Trustees | Independent Administrator | Publishing as much detail as possible about social benefits and informing residents and broader stakeholders about actual spending resources and deviations | April 2024 | - | Completed |
| National Secretariat | (See terms of reference for 2022 report: paragraph (1.2.10)) | ||||||
| Total | 36.25 | ||||||
Challenges
Objectives
The second axis
Processing recommendations
Independent Administrator's Recommendations in a General Report 2021
| Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Capacity Building for the Authority: | Board of Trustees | Broader Stakeholders | Required tasks are accomplished by providing staff as follows: | January - March 2024 | - | 1. Completed |
| Formation of sub-committees: Compliance, Conformity, Reports, and Media and Participation Committee, tasked with the duties mentioned in the recommendations | National Secretariat | Ministry of Oil | 1. Board of Trustees formation of Support Team | 2. Completed | |||
| Ministry of Industry and Minerals | 2. Ministries of Oil and Industry and Minerals nominating required staff to the National Secretariat | 3. Completed (https://ieiti.org.iq/ar/listing/reports-and-publications/other-publications) | |||||
| 3. Publishing formation and nomination orders on the initiative website with the following details and updating them periodically: | |||||||
| - Work accomplished by Secretariat nominees and team members and publishing meeting minutes | |||||||
| - Entities represented by Secretariat staff and team members, assigned tasks and responsibilities, and attendance schedules | |||||||
| - Nomination and candidacy mechanism and exemption mechanism | |||||||
| 2 | License Registry | Board of Trustees | Consulting Company | 1. An updated and comprehensive license registry for oil, gas and mining sectors, available to the public through the websites of the Ministries of Oil and Industry and Minerals, Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department, Investments Department, Geological Survey Authority, and Transparency Authority. | First Quarter 2025 | To be determined later based on funding availability and funding entity | 1. Faces challenges |
| Contracting with the consulting company that created the oil and gas license registry to update and develop it according to requirement 2.3 to include mining licenses. And conducting a training workshop to introduce the registry and how to enter and update data in it | National Secretariat | Contracts and Licensing Department | 2. Identifying entities responsible for updating the registry with a detailed and written mechanism for how to update | 2. Faces challenges | |||
| Investments Department in Ministry of Industry | 3. Documenting the introductory workshop with signed minutes from attendees containing workshop details, program and questionnaire showing the extent of benefit with names, entities and photos. | 3. Faces challenges | |||||
| Geological Survey Authority | |||||||
| 3 | Disclosure of Extractive Contracts | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Validation Requirements) axis |
| 4 | Implementation of International Consultant Report Recommendations on Beneficial Ownership | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Beneficial Ownership) axis |
| 5 | Review of Politically Exposed Persons Data | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Beneficial Ownership) axis |
| 6 | Publication of Audited Final Accounts of State-Owned Companies | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Validation Requirements) axis |
| 7 | Entities Lagging in Disclosure | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Validation Requirements) axis |
| 8 | Mining Activity in the Artisanal Sector and Small Facilities | Board of Trustees | Ministry of Industry and Minerals | The update should include the following: | April 2024 | - | 1. Work in progress |
| Updating the terms of reference for upcoming transparency reports to ensure compliance with requirement 6.3 regarding disclosure of the size of the extractive industries sector in absolute value and as a percentage of GDP and estimating informal sector activity, including artisanal activity and small mining workshops and facilities | National Secretariat | Independent Administrator | 1. Publishing estimates for informal extractive activities, including artisanal and small-scale activities in future reports. | 2. Work in progress | |||
| Disclosure related to artisanal activity and small facilities is also covered in requirements 1.5, 2.1, 3.2 and 3.3. | 2. Conducting a consultancy study to assess the mining and small crafts sector. | ||||||
| 9 | Enhancing Public Debate | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Outcomes and Impact and Enhancing Public Debate) axis |
| 10 | Systematic Disclosure | - | - | - | - | - | The matter has been addressed in the (Systematic Disclosure) axis |
| 11 | Open Data | National Secretariat | Independent Administrator | 1. Adopting a clear, written policy available to the public regarding open data and ease of data circulation and reuse. | Second half of 2024 | - | 1. Completed |
| In compliance with requirement 7.2, published data must be publicly available, machine-readable, interactive and easy to review. | Broader Stakeholders | 2. Making open data available in CSV or Excel format including all tables, charts and figures contained in reports. | 2. Completed | ||||
| 1. Update and/or review terms of reference for upcoming transparency reports to ensure following open data policy in publishing transparency report, executive summary and other reports | 3. Making systematic disclosure data readable, interactive and operational so it can be compared with other data available to the public | 3. Completed | |||||
| 2. Update and/or review terms of reference for creating the Authority's website contract to ensure compliance with this requirement | 4. Terms of reference for transparency reports clearly state the necessity of adhering to open data policy. | 4. Completed | |||||
| 5. Terms of reference for the Authority's website creation contract clearly state the necessity of adhering to open data policy. | 5. Completed | ||||||
| 6. Re-publishing the 2019-2020 report in accordance with open data policy | 6. Completed | ||||||
| (See terms of reference for 2022 report: paragraph (1.2.8)) | |||||||
| 12 | Previous Reports Recommendations: | Board of Trustees | Related Entities | 1. Tasking the Support Team with following up on implementation of previous recommendations, preferably assigning a dedicated official to follow up on each recommendation separately with determining cost, timeline, obstacles, etc. | October - December 2024 | - | 1. Work in progress |
| In compliance with requirement 7.3, regarding taking steps to act based on lessons learned to identify causes of gaps and inconsistencies, investigate and address them, and consider resulting recommendations | National Secretariat | 2. Taking steps to act based on lessons learned to enhance the initiative's impact on natural resource management. | 2. Work in progress | ||||
| 3. Considering improving procedures for analyzing and following up on recommendations | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| 2. | |||||||
| Total | - |
Challenges
Objectives
Axis 3
Outcomes, Impact, and Enhancing Public Discussion
Requirement 1.5, 7.1 of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standards
| No. | Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Contracting with an international specialized expert to develop an "Impact Survey and Measurement Plan" using internet technologies, media, and social media platforms. | Board of Trustees | World Bank | 1. Designing appropriate paper and electronic "survey form" templates suitable for the reality of oil, gas and mining sectors in Iraq and that are easy for the public to understand | First quarter of 2024 | To be determined later based on funding availability and funding entity | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | Initiative | 2. Creating an "Impact Database" to collect and analyze survey data and present its outputs in clear reports understandable to the public | 2. Work in progress | ||||
| Broader stakeholders represented in the Board of Trustees and beyond | 3. Providing proposals drawn from experiences of Initiative countries and applicable in Iraq | 3. Work in progress | |||||
| 2 | Organizing at least six (6) workshops or seminars in Baghdad and the governorates based on the international expert's proposals and impact database outputs | Board of Trustees | Broader stakeholders represented in the Board of Trustees and beyond | Providing recommendations that would deepen impact and address weaknesses in programs that did not achieve the desired impact for the workshops: | First half of 2025 | 28.5 | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | 1. First workshop in ... governorate | 2. Work in progress | |||||
| 2. Second workshop in ... governorate | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| 3. Third workshop in ... governorate | 4. Work in progress | ||||||
| 4. Fourth workshop in ... governorate | 5. Work in progress | ||||||
| 5. Fifth workshop in ... governorate | 6. Work in progress | ||||||
| 6. Sixth workshop in ... governorate | |||||||
| 3 | Paragraph (9) of the Independent Administrator's recommendations for the 2021 report entitled "Enhancing Public Debate". | 1. Effectively promoting the Initiative's reports and making them available to the public and contributing to public debate | Second half of 2024 | 32.5 | 1. Work in progress | ||
| According to requirement 7.1, the Board of Trustees must ensure that government and company disclosures are clear, actively promoted, publicly available, and contribute to public debate by broader stakeholders such as government, parliamentarians, civil society, companies, and media. | 2. Ensuring timely delivery of Initiative data and results, as well as effective communication with key stakeholders | 2. Work in progress | |||||
| 3. Encouraging and exploring innovative ways to enhance the Initiative's contribution to public debate and engagement with communities in remote areas where extractive activities take place | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| 4. Building partnerships with local media, radio, and local newspapers to promote the Initiative and enhance public debate | 4. Work in progress | ||||||
| 4 | Organizing three workshops in Baghdad and the governorates dedicated to developing the capabilities of media professionals and civil society in understanding the concept of impact in the Initiative and measuring it | Civil Society | Media professionals and civil society activists interested in oil, gas and mining sectors | Broader participation to help create and monitor impact: | Second half of 2024 | 14.25 | 1. Work in progress |
| National Secretariat | 1. First workshop in ... governorate | 2. Work in progress | |||||
| 2. Second workshop in ... governorate | 3. Work in progress | ||||||
| 3. Third workshop in ... governorate | |||||||
| 5 | Updating the terms of reference for transparency reports to require the Independent Administrator to survey the opinions of disclosing entities about the impact of the Initiative in oil, gas and mining sectors by sending | Board of Trustees | Independent Administrator | Including in the terms of reference for transparency reports provisions requiring the Independent Administrator to: | March 2024 | - | 1. Completed |
| National Secretariat | 1. Send impact survey forms with the disclosure template sent to disclosing entities | 2. Completed | |||||
| 2. Publish impact database outputs in the report, analyze them, and provide recommendations thereon | (See terms of reference for 2022 report: paragraph (1.2.9)) | ||||||
| 6 | Identifying main topics for public discussions inspired by transparency report data and in line with challenges facing the extractive sector that have direct impact on citizens' lives | Board of Trustees | Broader stakeholders | Clear agreed-upon themes ready to stimulate public discussion aimed at creating impact | March 2024 | - | Work in progress |
| Independent Administrator | |||||||
| 7 | Organizing an expanded seminar in the Parliament building addressing the public discussion topics identified by the Board | National Secretariat | Parliament members | Introducing target entities to the most important data and conclusions of the report and the challenges facing the extractive sector, and conveying ideas and opinions raised by participants to the Board of Trustees and relevant entities as well as considering them in subsequent reports | September 2024 | 12 | Work in progress |
| Civil Society | Judicial and supervisory entities | ||||||
| Total | 87,25 |
Challenges
Objectives
Axis Eleven
Structure of the Authority
Requirement 1.4 of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standards
Paragraphs (1 and 2) of the corrective measures
| No. | Activity | Responsible Parties | Target Parties | Expected Results | Timeline | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Million Dinars) | |||||||
| 1 | Amending the Diwani Order to include paragraphs regarding the internal system and the duties and responsibilities of the Executive Director, the Council, and the National Secretariat, and defining the responsibility for providing administrative and financial requirements. | National Secretariat | Broader Stakeholders | A new and effective Council formation that represents all broader stakeholders and is capable of managing the Council in the next phase | January 2024 | - | Completed in 2023 |
| Council President | General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers | ||||||
| 3 | Follow-up with the Ministry of Oil and other government agencies to provide the financial and administrative requirements for the Authority as specified in the Diwani Order. | National Secretariat | Ministry of Oil | Continuation of the Authority's workflow. | January - February 2024 | - | Faces challenges |
| 4 | Formation of an independent committee tasked with organizing meetings, conferences, and workshops attended by civil society components in Iraq for the purpose of agreeing on a free, transparent, and written nomination mechanism to select their representatives in the Board of Trustees according to the articles of the Diwani Order. | Board of Trustees | Broader Civil Society | A free and clear mechanism for selecting representatives of all civil society components that aligns with standards requirements and considers the interest of the initiative in Iraq | August 2024 - December 2024 | 14250 | Faces challenges |
| 5 | Final approval of the names of Council members according to nominations received from the parties mentioned in the Diwani Order and issuing an order signed by the Council President. | Board of Trustees | Board of Trustees | Issuance of an official order with the names | December 2024 | - | Faces challenges |
| National Secretariat | |||||||
| Broader Stakeholders | |||||||
| 6 | Conducting introductory workshops for new members and capacity building workshops for all members and staff regarding requirements and new work projects. | Board of Trustees | Council Members | Capacity building and increased work efficiency | January - December 2024 | 14250 | Faces challenges |
| National Secretariat | National Secretariat Staff | ||||||
| Support Team | |||||||
| Total | 28.5 | ||||||
| Grand Total | 753.25 |