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Today is being commemorated around the world as International Youth Day (IYD). The day has been set up to recognize the key contributions of the youth in national development. This year’s World Youth Day is being celebrated under the theme: “Green Skills for Youth: Towards a Sustainable World”.As a country with a very youthful population, […]

An Obuasi based research and advocacy group, the Center for Social Impact Studies(CeSIS), is appealing to the various mining companies to frequently engage communities on resettlement and compensation. According to the group, mining is a critical industry for the global economy, but its impact on local communities is often a cause of concern. CeSIS, in

In the face of threats posed by toxic substances, there is an urgent need for Ghana to respect and guarantee the free and full exercise of human rights.

Robert Ali Tanti, the Executive Director of the Center for Social Impact Studies ( CESIS), a research and advocacy NGO, organisers of the event, said the Center through the Mine Site Assessment Tool has sensitized inhabitants of mining communities on the best approaches to address issues bothering on the operations of mining communities in their

The Governing Board of the Centre for Social Impact Studies (CeSIS) has announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Ali Tanti as its new Executive Director.  His appointment comes after the Founding Executive Director of CeSIS, Richard Ellimah, resigned from his position.

The Center for Social Impact Studies (CeSIS) is delighted to be celebrating ten years of its establishment as a research and advocacy non-governmental organization with a primary focus on providing research backbone to Ghana’s extractive industry. Over the past ten years, CeSIS has played a significant role in shaping the national discourse on transparency in the utilization

Three Australian Awards alumni, each with a different lens, are creating positive change in the mining sector in their home country of Ghana. Collectively, they’re making significant shifts for the benefit of the industry as a whole and for artisanal small-scale operators in rural areas who depend on mining for their livelihoods. One alum, Richard

Mr Richard Ellimah, Executive Director of Centre for Social Impact Studies, a non-profit organisation on Friday tasked government to adequately provide funding and resources to the Minerals Commission to carry out its mandate. Mr Ellimah noted that a fraction of monies voted for Operation Vanguard to carry out its work should have been given to

South African mining giant, Goldfields Ghana Limited, has announced that it will be retrenching a substantial number of its workers at its Tarkwa mine. The company has explained that it is adopting a new business model that will see it sub-contracting portions of its operations to some qualified contractors. The move by the company will

For immediate release REVIEW STABILITY CLAUSES NOW! In an effort to attract foreign direct investments into the country in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana, under the supervision of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, introduced a number of reforms in the mining sector, which was used as a growth pole for reviving