The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is now widely recognised as a leading development policy helping govern the production of oil, gas, and other mined materials. This study builds on recent theoretical work conceptualizing how the EITI might reach its long-term goals of improving natural resource governance and promoting inclusive forms of social and economic development. While existing discussions describe the need to explore how these conceptual models might work within specific national contexts, this paper highlights there is also scope to further understand them from an international perspective by looking at the role of the international EITI secretariat. Drawing on a review of the broader literature dedicated to Global Performance Assessments, it presents an example elaborating on how the international secretariat's country assessments may affect what is known as the Technical Reforms model (a model describing the EITI may help to improve the governance of natural resources by strengthening the regulations that manage them). Overall, this discussion highlights the EITI's country assessments may encourage the adoption of reforms due to the Hawthorne effects and reputational, aspirational, and competitive motivations they can illicit from governing elites.

采掘业透明度倡议 (EITI) 现在被广泛认为是一项领先的发展政策，有助于管理石油、天然气和其他开采材料的生产。本研究建立在近期理论工作的基础上，这些工作概念化了 EITI 如何实现其改善自然资源治理和促进包容性社会和经济发展形式的长期目标。虽然现有讨论描述了探索这些概念模型如何在特定国家背景下工作的必要性，但本文强调，通过审视国际 EITI 秘书处的作用，从国际角度进一步理解它们的空间也很大。通过对专门用于全球绩效评估的更广泛文献的回顾，它提供了一个例子，详细说明了国际秘书处如何 国家评估可能会影响所谓的技术改革模型（描述 EITI 的模型可能有助于通过加强管理自然资源的法规来改善对自然资源的治理）。总体而言，该讨论强调了 EITI 的国家评估可能会鼓励采用改革，因为它们可以从管理精英那里非法获得霍桑效应和声誉、抱负和竞争动机。