PUBLISHED: JANUARY 2022

Bantay Kita, an organization in the Philippines, has been a leader in developing inputs on civic space for submission as part of EITI validation. In this report, provided to the EITI Secretariat during the Philippines’ 2020 validation, Bantay Kita draws on EITI guidance and extensive field research to describe how restrictions on civic freedoms have undermined civil society engagement in the EITI process.

In December 2020, the organization held a webinar discussing its methodology for developing its EITI report: https://youtu.be/sNp49tGVLIE.