Journalists from leading Ghanaian media organisations have undergone a specialised media capacity training aimed at strengthening reporting, public education, and accountability coverage on the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), Ghana’s key institutional vehicle for managing and investing mineral royalties and related mineral revenues.
The training, convened as part of a broader advocacy effort on improving transparency and accountability in the governance of MIIF, brought together reporters, editors, and public-interest media practitioners to deepen understanding of the Fund’s legal mandate, governance structure, disclosure obligations, investment role, and broader significance for mineral revenue governance in Ghana.
The session formed part of ongoing efforts to support evidence-based public conversation and reform-oriented advocacy around MIIF, particularly at a time when questions of transparency, institutional accountability, and long-term stewardship of mineral wealth remain central to Ghana’s extractive governance agenda.
Participants were taken through the legal and policy foundations of MIIF, its intended role in promoting long-term fiscal sustainability and value creation from mineral resources, and the importance of media scrutiny in ensuring that the management of mineral wealth remains subject to informed public oversight.
The training also highlighted the need for journalists to move beyond event-driven coverage and toward deeper, more sustained reporting on issues such as governance independence, public disclosure, investment transparency, and institutional accountability in the management of mineral income.
Speaking during the engagement, Mr Patrick Stephenson, the Country Manager for NRGI Ghana office, emphasised that effective accountability in mineral revenue governance depends not only on laws and institutions, but also on a media ecosystem that is sufficiently informed to interpret complex public finance issues and communicate them clearly to citizens.
The session further underscored the strategic role of the media in bridging the gap between technical policy analysis and public understanding.
By equipping journalists with the tools to report more accurately and critically on MIIF, the initiative aims to contribute to stronger national discourse on how Ghana manages mineral-derived public wealth and whether current governance arrangements are sufficient to protect the public interest.
Participants were encouraged to pursue follow-up reporting, explainers, interviews, features, and editorial commentary that simplify MIIF-related issues for wider audiences while maintaining rigour, balance, and a clear public-interest focus.
The training is aimed at contributing to improved quality of media coverage on MIIF, greater public awareness of mineral revenue governance, and stronger momentum for transparency and accountability reforms.
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