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Petroleum revenue management in Ghana : how does the right to information law promote transparency, accountability and monitoring of the annual budget funding amount?

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09/2021
Author
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement
Okafor-Yarwood, Ifesinachi
Boadu, Evans Sakyi
Keywords
Annual budget funding amount
Institutional design
Open governance in Ghana
Petroleum revenue management act
Right to information act (RTI)
JS Local government Municipal government
T-NDAS
AC
MCP
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This paper engages the open governance framework to assess whether and how Ghana's Right to Information Law, 2019 (Act 989) contributes to accountability in petroleum revenue management. The Constitution's freedom of information provision aims to get civil society and other non-state actors to be proactive in exerting public accountability through transparency. However, in the petroleum sector, this has been constrained by the legal and regulatory ecosystems that affect timely access to relevant public information, which is a ‘sine qua non’ for accountability in governance. This constrains non-state actors from tracking the Annual Budget Funding Amount, the only part of petroleum revenue that the government can use to augment its annual expenditure. The 13 exemptions in the Right to Information Law further compound the opacity in the petroleum sector and showcase the ambiguity surrounding the government's commitment to open governance. Adopting the Kantian Publicity Principle as a change pathway and using examples of the setbacks faced by non-state actors, this paper argues that the potential of the Right to Information Law to counterbalance power notwithstanding, such exemptions, as found in Section 8(1)(d)(i-ii) that forbids the disclosure of information on some of government's international transactions, stifles open governance in the petroleum sector.
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Sefa-Nyarko , C , Okafor-Yarwood , I & Boadu , E S 2021 , ' Petroleum revenue management in Ghana : how does the right to information law promote transparency, accountability and monitoring of the annual budget funding amount? ' , Extractive Industries and Society , vol. 8 , no. 3 , 100957 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100957
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Extractive Industries and Society
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100957
ISSN
2214-790X
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Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100957
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26708

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