Ghana: ACEP Launches Report on Gender Budgeting of Mineral Revenue in Ghana

Jan 13, 2021 | Business Ghana
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The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has launched a research report that exposes critical gender gaps in allocation of resources, utilization and benefits in mining communities in Ghana.

The report, which is titled, “Promoting gender budgeting: the case of Mineral royalty utilization in Ghana,” seeks to underscore the need to relook at how mineral revenue is allocated in view of the need to promote the welfare of women in mining communities.

In an opening remark before the launch of the report which was done via Zoom, the Executive Director of ACEP, Mr. Benjamin Boakye, said the essence of the report was to recognize that mining created impact and that the impact tended to be varied, “And in Ghana,… based on socio-cultural issues, women tend to suffer more than men.”