Transparency

Last reviewed: 2026-05-15

The Ghana Integrated Gold Governance System operates under a transparency framework anchored in Ghanaian law and aligned with the international standards Ghana has subscribed to. This page documents the framework, the disclosures we make, and the channels through which the public may seek further information.

Legal framework

GIGGS is operated by the Ghana Gold Board under the Ghana Gold Board Act, 2025 (Act 1140). The Act vests in the Board the regulatory authority over the artisanal and small-scale gold sector and provides the statutory basis for the platform's licensing, custody, royalty, and compliance functions. Section 22 establishes the traceability obligation that underpins the chain of custody. Section 45 establishes the monthly-return obligation to the Minister responsible for finance. Sections 56–58 establish the Board's public-information obligations, which this page contributes to discharging.

What we publish

The following information is published, refreshed at the cadence indicated:

Sector statistics — gold tracked in custody, settled to vault and export, royalty collected, licences active. Refreshed daily on the public statistics dashboard.
Public licence verifier — current status of every issued licence, queryable by licence number, served continuously.
Sector Snapshot — quarterly published summary with narrative analysis.
Annual Production Summary — year-end consolidation, filed with the Board's Annual Report to Parliament and with the Ghana EITI Independent Administrator.
Beneficial-ownership extracts — public subset of the beneficial-ownership register, in conformance with EITI Requirement 2.5 and the personal-data protections of Act 843.
Penalty register — administrative penalties imposed under Section 43 of Act 1140, published after the period for appeal has expired or been exercised.
The Board's Annual Report — laid before Parliament under Act 1140, published in full following its laying.

EITI alignment

Ghana has been compliant with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative since 2010 and adopted the 2023 Standard on schedule. The platform supports Ghana's continuing compliance through the annual EITI Disclosure Report, which contributes to the Independent Administrator's annual report. The Disclosure Report covers, for the artisanal and small-scale gold sector: production and trade figures (Requirement 4); revenue flows including royalty paid (Requirement 5); licensing decisions (Requirement 2.3); contract summaries (Requirement 2.2); beneficial-ownership disclosures (Requirement 2.5); and open-data publication of published figures (Requirement 7).

OECD due-diligence alignment

The platform is designed in accordance with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. The five-step framework is implemented as follows: management systems through the platform itself and its documented governance (Step 1); risk identification and assessment through the chain-of-custody, AML, and AI-detection clusters (Step 2); response strategies through enhanced due diligence and the enforcement pathway (Step 3); independent third-party audit through accredited refiner audits and the Board's internal-audit programme (Step 4); and annual reporting through the Annual Production Summary and the Board's Annual Report (Step 5).

Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843)

The platform processes personal data subject to the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). Agentics Technology Solutions Ltd. is registered with the Data Protection Commission as data controller for the platform; the Ghana Gold Board is registered as data processor in respect of personal data processed by the platform on the Board's behalf. The platform observes the eight data-protection principles of Act 843:

Accountability — the controller is identified, contactable, and answerable. Registration details are publicly verifiable through the Commission.
Lawfulness of processing — processing is on a lawful basis, principally the performance of a public task under Act 1140, the necessity of processing under the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the tax laws, and consent where neither of the foregoing applies.
Specification of purpose — each category of personal data is processed for a specified purpose communicated to data subjects at collection.
Compatibility of further processing — where personal data collected for one purpose is processed for another, the new purpose is compatible with the original; the data subject is informed; and consent is sought where required.
Quality of information — personal data is kept accurate and current through periodic refresh against authoritative external sources.
Openness — this transparency framework and the published data-protection notice describe what is collected, why, how it is used, and with whom it is shared.
Data security safeguards — encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access control, audit-chain recording of every access to personal-data fields, and the data-minimisation principle applied at design.
Data subject participation — the rights of access, rectification, blocking, erasure, and objection are exercised through the contact channel below.

An annual data-protection report summarising the year's data-subject activity is filed with the Commission and published.

Right to Information (Act 989)

The Board is a public institution within the meaning of the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989). Requests for information held by the Board may be made through the platform's Right to Information request handler. The handler captures the request, routes it to the Information Officer, and returns the response within the statutory period. Where exemption under the Act is claimed, the response identifies the exemption and provides the reason. A requester who disputes the response may proceed to internal review and onward to the Right to Information Commission.

Contact

For matters concerning this transparency framework, the Board's public-information obligations, data-subject requests under Act 843, or information requests under Act 989:

Email: info@agenticstechnology.tech
Telephone: +233 30 398 4004, +233 30 285 8271, +233 24 803 6752

This transparency page is reviewed at least annually and on any material change to the platform's processing, the legal framework, or the international standards to which it aligns.