4 commitments
Debarment
Ghana is committed to exploring further options for improving transparency and openness in the area of public contracting and will continue to blacklist and debar service providers and contractors who engage in corrupt and other related misconduct in public procurement.
Country: Ghana
Status: overdue
Themes: Public procurement
Last updated: December 2020
View commitmentOpen Contracting Data Standard
Ghana will work towards making government public procurement ‘open by default’ – beginning with Open Contracting Data Standards for high value contracts and contracts in the oil, gas and mining sector
Country: Ghana
Status: ongoing
Themes: Public procurement
Last updated: December 2020
View commitmentPublic Register
Ghana is committed to preventing the misuse of companies and legal arrangements to hide the proceeds of corruption and commits to strengthening further both the Companies Bill and the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Bill that are currently before Parliament to ensure that we have public beneficial ownership information and central register for all sectors, including oil and gas sector, in line with UNCAC and FATF Recommendations as well as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standards that Ghana is implementing; ensuring that accurate and timely company beneficial ownership information, including in the extractives, is available and accessible to the public
Country: Ghana
Status: ongoing
Themes: Beneficial ownership
Last updated: December 2020
View commitmentReporting Corruption
Ghana is strengthening the necessary legislative and other measures to enhance the capacity of the public/citizens and encourage them to report corruption without fear of victimization, and commits to: · improve and extend the recently established Citizens complaints Centre in Accra to other regions of the country
Country: Ghana
Status: ongoing
Themes: Whistleblower/civil society space protection
Last updated: December 2020
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