Do you know about the EITI? If not, that’s not surprising, because the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and its implementation in Germany have as yet aroused little public interest. Among German NGOs, too, there is little awareness of the DEITI and its reports. Rightly so? Is the DEITI just another multistakeholder initiative with which the private sector and the government can do some virtue signalling without really delivering any added value? Or does it actually reveal relevant information about domestic resource extraction that has not previously been available?Read More