Good morning to you all. I deem it a great honour to be here this morning to launch the Ghana - EITI Audit Reports for 2006, 2007 and 2008.  As some of you may know the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a governance tool that seeks to promote the principles of transparency and accountability in the payment and receipts of resources from the extractive sector.

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has launched the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) Audit Reports. The Ghana EITI is a governance tool that seeks to promote the principles of transparency and accountability in the payment and receipts of resources from the extractive sector.

DAR-ES-SALAAM, 19 OCTOBER 2010.  Ghana has achieved Compliance with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the global standard for improved transparency in the oil, gas and mining sectors. The EITI Board designated Ghana as 'EITI Compliant' at a meeting today in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Accra, Friday October 15, 2010 – Ghana’s Multi-stakeholder Group, overseeing the implementation of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHETIT) on Wednesday October 6, accepted by unanimous decision the 2006 – 2008 EITI audit reports submitted by the aggregator, Messrs Boas and Associates.

1.0    Introduction
On Wednesday 8th September 2010, the Hon. Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Honorable Kwabena Duffour with support from colleague Ministers from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Hon Collins Dauda, Environment, Science and Technology, Hon Sherry Ayittey and Deputy Minister for Energy, Hon. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah inaugurated the expanded National Steering Committee (NSC) of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) in the Finance Minister’s office from 10am-12pm.

The GHEITI 2015 Mining Sector Report is available for download. Click [HERE]

Oil & Gas Sector Report for 2015 Uploaded. Click here to download. Other reports varying formats are available from the Publications section. Please click [HERE]

Accra, Sept. 27. GNA – Vice-President Kwesi Amissah- Arthur on Thursday said Ghana has instituted various measures to strengthen its public financial management systems as a way of finding long term solutions to the problem of weak institutional capacities and government ineffectiveness.

In an address read on his behalf at the opening of a two-day regional conference on Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), Mr Amissah-Arthur said the implementation of appropriate initiatives such as reforming the national budgeting processes, implementing fiscal decentralisation regime and sanitising the national payroll systems, among other initiatives and objectives, were adopted to help in addressing obstacles militating against institutional and government effectiveness.