The basic concept of EITI is for the extractive industries making payments, Government receiving revenues and for Civil Society playing a watchdog role to ensure sanity in revenue - flow streams. The concept appears simplistic but carries a lot of ramifications. Transparence is human endeavour tool that helps to bring accountability, equitable distribution, openness and peace. 

Inception Report on EITI in Ghana Please click [here] to download this document.

Once again the Chamber is happy to publish below payments made by the mining industry in 2007. This publication is part of the Chamber’s pursuit of transparency in the payments and receipts in the mining sector in Ghana. Please click to download this document.

Ghana’s diamond production the first half of 2008 was 395,236 carats, marking a fall of 22 per cent from production of 504,363 carats in the first half of 2007.  According to a Ghana Chamber of Mines statistics, the revenue generated from this production also fell by over a fifth at 21 per cent.