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Implementation

​Open Ownership’s technical and policy experts provide support and guidance on all aspects of how to implement beneficial ownership transparency reforms.

This page features some of our most-used tools and guidance, including the Open Ownership Principles and an overview of our Opening Extractives programme, undertaken jointly with the EITI. Grey tags such as 'Guidance' will take you to all content in that category. You can also browse our full range of resources which support implementation using the search function.

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    Guidance

    Guide to implementing beneficial ownership transparency

    This guide provides resources for those implementing beneficial ownership transparency. It covers the full implementation journey, including initial commitments, developing a robust legal framework, designing data collection systems, building registers and making data available

    Published: 01 July 2021

  • OPO Principles A4 Landscape

    Principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure - updated January 2023

    The Open Ownership Principles set out best practice standards for effective beneficial ownership disclosure

Implementation in practice

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    Opening Extractives

    Opening Extractives is an ambitious global programme aiming to transform the availability and use of beneficial ownership data for effective governance in the extractive sector

  • Beneficial ownership declaration forms: Guide for regulators and designers
    Forms

    Beneficial ownership declaration forms: Guide for regulators and designers

    This guide introduces a number of challenges for regulators and designers to consider when developing beneficial ownership declaration forms

    Published: 17 March 2021

  • BOVS Diagram Tilable (1)
    Tools

    Beneficial ownership disclosure workbook

    This short, accessible workbook contains scenarios and illustrations on fictional company ownership structures

    Written by Kadie Armstrong

Latest publications

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    Tools Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Open Ownership Register

    How to use Open Ownership’s tools: A guide for data users analysing beneficial ownership data

    This publication offers a step-by-step guide on Open Ownership's latest tools for examining beneficial ownership data

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Agustina De Luca

    Published: 31 July 2023

  • Open Ownership's submission to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime following the 2021 United Nations General Assembly Special Session Political Declaration against Corruption
    Publication

    Beneficial ownership transparency and the United Nations Convention against Corruption: progress and recommendations

    This document presents opportunities to strengthen beneficial ownership transparency through the United Nations Convention against Corruption processes

    Written by Eryn Shornick, Julie Rialet , Louise Russell-Prywata

    Published: 13 June 2023

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    Briefing

    Coverage of corporate vehicles in beneficial ownership disclosure regimes

    This policy briefing explains that to generate actionable and usable data across the widest set of policy aims, beneficial ownership disclosure requirements should apply to all corporate vehicles, whilst allowing for reasonable and narrowly applied exemptions

    Written by Alanna Markle

    Published: 27 April 2023

Latest blog posts

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    Blog post Open Ownership Register

    Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners

    Young children being registered as beneficial owners can create confusion or raise suspicion, especially when they are connected to politicians, oligarchs, or other individuals in the public eye. This blog post explores the matter.

    Written by Alanna Markle

    Published: 21 September 2023

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    Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Open Ownership Register

    Spotting risks by combining beneficial ownership, public procurement and sanctions data

    Open Ownership is unveiling a proof-of-concept demonstrating the use of high-quality beneficial ownership information as linked data and how it can be combined with public procurement data and sanctions data to leverage its graph nature for a series of risk and compliance use cases

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Cosmin Marginean

    Published: 21 September 2023

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    Blog post Opening Extractives

    Liberia publishes regulations on beneficial ownership transparency: our reflections

    Open Ownership's technical lead for beneficial ownership implementation in Africa shares about Liberia's journey so far

    Written by Favour Ime

    Published: 19 September 2023

Latest news

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    News article

    A global challenge to use Nigeria’s beneficial ownership data for impact stories

    Open Ownership is looking for people to create visualisations and infographics of real findings from beneficial ownership data investigations. Could it be you?

    Written by Agustina De Luca

    Published: 29 August 2023

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    News article Opening Extractives

    2023 EITI Standard: strengthened requirements on beneficial ownership transparency

    Today the EITI launched the 2023 EITI Standard, at its global conference in Dakar, Senegal. Open Ownership welcomes the strengthening of EITI requirements on beneficial ownership transparency. Here are the key updates

    Written by Louise Russell-Prywata

    Published: 13 June 2023

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    News article Opening Extractives Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Nigeria adopts Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for its new national register

    Nigeria has become the first African country to collect beneficial ownership data in line with Open Ownership’s data standard and has committed to making this information public

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Favour Ime

    Published: 26 May 2023

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