9th Multi-Stakeholder Meeting was conducted in Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon on 19th December, 2017. In The 9th MSG meeting, it was discussed the following points such as the situations of pending in submission of templates, Audit report cover sheet and Auditor's certification sheet of the Gems and Jade companies; updates of Validation process to MSG and to discuss for preparation of Pre-Validation workshops for validation guidelines and Procedures; the follow ups of the decision of MSG  8th MEITI-MSG meeting, the updates of preliminary study report presented by the mining cadaster consultant; the updates on the Technicala and Financial proposal submitted by the preliminary hired BO consultant, the forestry scoping stydy report sent by the Independent Administrator (IA) for Forestry sector. Besides, during the meeting, it is also to seek confirmation on the decisions of MSG sub-national Coordination Unit (SNU) at regions and states, to have discussion about the comments sent from International EITI with regards MSG ToT according to 2016 EITI standard.