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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Botswana
Year	2016
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, State-owned enterprises
Document Type	Web Page
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1.1a: Does the government publicly disclose data on extractive resource reserves?, 1.2.2a: Does the government publicly disclose data on the value of extractive resource exports?, 1.1.4b: From 2015 onwards, and prior to each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose a list of biddable or negotiable terms?, 1.1.6c: From 2015 onwards, and after each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose the list of areas/blocks allocated?, 1.1.2d: Does the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts give the names of companies that hold an interest in a given area/block?, 1.3.2a: From 2015 onwards, have EIAs and/or SIAs been publicly disclosed?, 1.3.4a: From 2015 onwards, have environmental mitigation management plans been publicly disclosed?, 1.4.3b: Do rules require a periodic audit of the SOE's financial statements by an external body?, 1.4.7d: Are there rules that require the SOE or government to publicly disclose information on the sale of production by the SOE?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Department of Mines
Author	Department of Mines Department of Mines
Source or API link	http://www.mines.gov.bw
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute