Training

Opening Extractives programme global peer learning exchange

Global peer exchange celebrating five years of Opening Extractives programme achievements. Yerevan, Armenia 2025.

17 – 18 November 2025
In-person

Where: Armenia Marriot Hotel, Yerevan, Armenia

When: 17-18 November, 2025

The EITI and Open Ownership are collaborating under the Opening Extractives (OE) programme to facilitate a global peer exchange learning event in Yerevan, Armenia in November 2025. This event marks a milestone for the five-year OE programme (2021–2025, continuing through 2027), funded by the BHP Foundation and previously by USAID (September 2023 – January 2025). The OE programme has driven global progress in the accessibility and use of beneficial ownership information to strengthen natural resource governance. This event will celebrate achievements, share innovations and lessons, particularly regarding the use of BO transparency for integrity screening in licensing processes and explore opportunities to build upon progress to date.

The two-day global peer exchange will include participants from OE partner countries: Armenia, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal and Zambia. It will provide a platform to share implementation successes and explore how challenges related to interagency cooperation, data privacy, public disclosure, compliance and data verification have been addressed, informing future progress both locally and globally.

The in-person peer event will bring together government, civil society and regulatory representatives from selected countries, OE staff from the EITI International Secretariat and Open Ownership and international organisations that work on supporting BO transparency globally.

17 Nov
18 Nov

Day 1

8:30–9:30

Registration

8:30–9:30

9:30–10:30

Welcome & keynotes

9:30–10:30

Opening remarks by the Government of Armenia, BHP Foundation, EITI and Open Ownership.

10:30–11:00

Coffee break

10:30–11:00

11:00–12:30

Session 1: Successes and future opportunities

11:00–12:30

High-level panel on lessons and achievements from OE.

This session will highlight the transformation from manual to digital registers with examples from Liberia and Zambia.

Moderated by Karabo Rajuili of Open Ownership.

12:30–13:30

Lunch

12:30–13:30

13:30–15:00

This session will feature impact stories from Armenia, Liberia, Senegal, Mongolia and other countries.

Moderator

Williams Noah

Country Officer – Anglophone Africa

15:00–15:30

Tea break

15:00–15:30

15:30–17:00

Session 3: Peer learning roundtables

15:30–17:00

Thematic small group dialogues on disclosure, verification, and inter agency cooperation, data interoperability, use of BO data and transforming from manual to digital register.

Moderated by Favour Ime of Open Ownership

17:00–17:30

Key takeaways and look ahead to Day 2

Moderated by Favour Ime of Open Ownership and EITI's Nyasha Vera

Moderator

Nyasha Vera

Communications Officer

Day 2

9:00–10:00

This learning session will explore the importance of beneficial ownership in licensing, as well as steps involved in incorporating BO into licensing integrity due diligence screening and BO data use in review or auditing of licenses.

Moderated by Phoebe Williams of Open Ownership and EITI's Alex Malden

Moderator

Alex Malden

Policy Manager

10:00–10:30

Tea break

10:00–10:30

10:30–12:30

Session 5: Practical application of BO data in licensing processes

10:30–12:30

This session will explore practical application of beneficial ownership data in licensing processes, drawing insights from Armenia and Ghana. The session will also explore other uses applications of BO data across the extractives value chain.

Moderated by Open Ownership's Phoebe Williams and Favour Ime

12:30–13:30

Lunch

12:30–13:30

13:30–15:00

In this session, each country will outline at least one post-Opening Extractives programme action or reform commitment.

Moderated by EITI's Gisela Granado and Karabo Rajuili of Open Ownership

Moderator

Gisela Granado

Policy Director

15:00–15:30

Tea break

15:00–15:30

15:30–16:30

Donor/stakeholder roundtable on BO post-programme sustainability.

Moderated by EITI's Executive Director Mark Robinson and Open Ownership's Deputy Executive Director Louise Russell-Prywata.