Denmark
The Government of Denmark supoports the EITI through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Danish Foreign Service aims to safeguard and pursue Denmark’s international interests as well as manage and coordinate foreign policy and foreign economic external relations. This includes Denmark's participation in the European Union, international organisations and international development cooperation.
EITI is a key player in promoting revenue transparency and good governance in the highly corruption prone extractive sector. EITI provides important tools in the fight against corruption and illicit financial flows and in strengthening domestic resource mobilisation by strengthening transparency and accountability.
Engagement with the EITI
Denmark has been an EITI supporting country since 2009. Through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark provides core funding to the EITI International Secretariat. The support to EITI is part of Denmark’s ‘Resource Mobilisation for Development, Programme for Anti-Corruption and Domestic Resource Mobilisation 2023-2026’. EITI contributes to both of the interlinked outcome objectives of the programme: 1) To reduce resources lost to corruption, tax evasion and avoidance, and illicit financial outflows; and 2) To increase domestically raised resources for development through capacity building, policy development, and strengthening of the social contract. As such, EITI contributes to the overall objective of the programme of increasing domestic resources in developing countries for investments in sustainable development.
International Engagement
Through the ‘Resource Mobilisation for Development, Programme for Anti-Corruption and Domestic Resource Mobilisation 2023-2026’ Denmark supports a range of actors that all contribute to combatting corruption, illicit financial flows, and tax evasion and avoidance, strengthening transparency and accountability, and the mobilisation of domestic resources for investments in development. The programme supports work plans of the partners, focusing on impact and on demand driven support to capacity building and policy development. Many EITI implementing countries thus receive support, including demand driven capacity development support, facilitated by support from Denmark.
Through bilateral development cooperation engagements, Denmark is providing direct support to EITI implementing countries, including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Tanzania, and Uganda.
EITI focal contact: Jonas Nyrop Henriques, Senior Advisor, Debt, Anti-corruption, Tax & DRM