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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.

  • Implementation guide stages
    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

  • Opening Extractives logo

    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

  • Coverage of corporate vehicles in beneficial ownership disclosure regimes – cover image
    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

  • BOT in Zambia
    Publication Opening Extractives

    Beneficial ownership transparency in Zambia

    This report provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the beneficial ownership (BO) laws, regulations and policies in Zambia. It identifies the gaps, inconsistencies and practical challenges faced in implementing BO in Zambia and provides practical recommendations on how the legislative, regulatory and policy framework on BO can be improved

    Written by Moira Mukuka Legal Practitioners

    Published: 21 February 2023

  • Beneficial Ownership Information Access and Safeguards, and Use of FinCEN Identifiers for Entities cover image
    Consultation

    Official comment on Beneficial Ownership Information Access and Safeguards, and Use of FinCEN Identifiers for Entities

    Open Ownership submitted an official comment in contribution to the public consultation on the proposed rule on Beneficial Ownership Information Access and Safeguards, and Use of FinCEN Identifiers for Entities

    Written by Open Ownership

    Published: 16 February 2023

Latest blog posts

  • The Coverage Principle: Setting the scope of disclosure for beneficial ownership transparency of corporate vehicles – blog post image
    Blog post

    The Coverage Principle: Setting the scope of disclosure for beneficial ownership transparency of corporate vehicles

    Open Ownership's policy briefing on the Coverage principle 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. It also presents considerations for setting out the scope of coverage in legal and data systems

    Written by Alanna Markle

    Published: 02 May 2023

  • Summit for Democracy Zambia
    Blog post

    Engaging the business community on beneficial ownership transparency in Zambia: Summit for Democracy

    In this guest blog post, Johannes Tonn documents our joint event with CIPE and partners during the Summit for Democracy in Zambia. The session explored engaging the business community in strengthening joint efforts to achieve greater beneficial ownership transparency

    Written by Johannes Tonn

    Published: 05 April 2023

  • Open Ownership Day 1169-min
    Blog post Procurement

    Connecting data on beneficial ownership, public contracting and politically exposed persons: reflections from a regional anti-corruption workshop

    Our recent workshop in Botswana sought to address questions like why should governments and law enforcement agencies pay attention to public procurement to prevent and detect corruption? How can open contracting help, and what is the link between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and public procurement?

    Written by Julie Rialet

    Published: 04 April 2023

Latest news

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    News article 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

  • OPO Principles A4 Landscape
    News article

    Publication of revised Open Ownership Principles

    Open Ownership has released an updated version of its Principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure in January 2023

    Written by Alanna Markle , Tymon Kiepe

    Published: 17 January 2023

  • Opening Extractives logo
    News article Opening Extractives

    Designing verification systems: A sample implementation checklist for beneficial ownership data

    This document provides a suggested task list for implementing a very wide range of verification mechanisms

    Written by Peter Low

    Published: 06 September 2022

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