By Jesse Ampah Owusu
Accra, Nov. 05, GNA – A Malawian delegation to Ghana, comprising representatives led by its Ministry of Mining and UNDP Malawi, has engaged institutions and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Ghana’s mining value-chain.
The engagements form part of a Malawi-Ghana South-South Learning Exchange on Mining and Mineral Sector Development, an initiative spearheaded by UNDP Malawi for the latter to learn from Ghana’s strides in sustainable mining governance and development.
The lessons were on mining governance, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalisation, mineral value addition, local content, revenue management and institutional coordination.
This was at a two-day meeting held on Tuesday at the Palms By Eagles, Airport City, Accra.
The technical sessions were facilitated by representatives from the Bank of Ghana, who took the delegation through the Domestic Gold Purchasing Programme.
This was followed by representatives from Ghana Gold Board sharing lessons on gold market governance and responsible sourcing, and, then, the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) sharing expertise on transparency and accountability in the extractive sector.
Mr Thoko Tembo, Malawi’s Minister of Mining, said the visit offered an opportunity to examine Ghana’s policy approaches and consider which lessons could inform the development of its own mining industry.
He said Ghana offered a useful peer-learning case due to its long-established large-scale mining industry with its significant ASM sector, mature mining governance architecture and recent reforms in domestic gold purchasing.
He stressed that this experience provided lessons not only from reforms that had worked, but also from implementation challenges.
“Particular emphasis would be placed on identifying which arrangements are transferable to Malawi, which require adaptation to Malawi’s scale and institutional context, and which approaches Ghana’s experience suggests should be avoided,” he added.
Ms Fenella Frost, UNDP Malawi Resident Representative, said in August 2026, the Ministry of Mining requested UNDP support for a South-South learning exchange with Ghana, hence the visit.
She said they had identified mining and the broader mineral economy as an increasingly important driver of economic transformation, foreign-exchange generation, industrialisation, employment and domestic value creation.
Dr Steve Manteaw, Co-chair of the GHEITI, said the system for managing mineral royalties should be made uniform.
He explained that the current fragmented system was undermining efforts to deliver lasting development benefits to mining host communities.
He said many mining communities were unable to use their share of mineral royalties for lasting development because the money meant for local development was poorly managed.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah