1. Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative:
SAP Solution for Ghana
Steve Williams, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP
May 17, 2011

2. Resource curse
The resource curse (Paradox of Plenty) refers to
the paradox that countries and regions with an
abundance of natural resources, specifically point-
source non-renewable resources like minerals and
fuels, tend to have less economic growth and
worse development outcomes than countries with
fewer natural resources.
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3. The joint IT project for EITI implementation
Challenges:
Bringing in the oil & gas sector
Closing the gap in reporting
The IT solution:
Addresses the challenge of delayed reporting
Is a development partnership between:
 The Ministry of Finance on behalf of GHEITI,
 SAP AG
 GIZ operating on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development
and Cooperation (BMZ)
The partnership adds a technical solution and specific managerial skills to the
EITI process.
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4. Scope of the EITI reporting in Ghana
Government
Institutions
District
Assemblies
Business Intelligence
Financial Reporting
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5. Benefits achieved
From paper to real time web communication
Content is checked and approved before data are made available to the Office of the Ghana
EITI aggregator.
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6. Presentation of the solution
Reconciliation of payments from Extractive Industries
Industries Government entities
 Extractive companies submit their payments Public sector submit revenues received from
through the web extractive companies
 EITI form
 Addition of comments and attached files
 Financial and statistical data are entered to allow
analysis
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7. Presentation of the solution
Reconciliation of payments to District Assemblies
Government entities  District Assemblies
 Declaration of payments to Local Authorities  Declaration of Mineral royalties received from
the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands
 Declaration of utilization of funds
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8. Presentation of the solution
Reporting
 Ghana EITI aggregator
 Follows up reporting from all
the entities involved in the
process
 Analyzes and reconciles data
 Publishes reportings through
Excel or pdf files
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9. Technology delivery
Business Intelligence
A powerful and flexible tailored IT solution to support
the EITI implementation in Ghana has been
installed using BFC and Extended Analytics.
Financial Reporting
The solution will optimize the publication of trustful
and transparent information to the stakeholders in
Ghana.
The solution we propose is
 Easy to use
 Implemented quickly
 Adaptable to the other EITI countries
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10. Knowledge transfer
A key aspect of the project
 Local team is able to handle the tool & reporting
 Done through workshops with the EITI multi-stakeholders group
 One team of SAP consultant and EITI members working together all along the project
Documentation
 End users specific documentation
 Reporting and administrative team documentation
 Maintenance documentation for IT specialists
Training
 For project team at the beginning of the project
 For end users before the go live
 For IT specialists during installation of platform
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11. SAP delivers Good Governance for Ghana
SAP committed to the project because the conditions were favorable to a software
implementation and we were highly impressed with the maturity of the EITI
process in Ghana.
IT is an essential enabler to meet the high level of governance standards that this
country has set itself.
Effective IT bridges insight and action. In this case, it provides the big picture of
revenue streams and payments, together with detailed information. Based on this
information, the GEITI Secretariat will be in an even better position to ensure that
declaration and payments are reconciled.
In concrete terms, this project will deliver really powerful benefits such as:
 Effective and fast reconciliation of declarations and payments;
 Quality of data with a validation process and one version of the truth;
 A simple overview of revenues;
 Reduced administrative overhead;
 Faster reporting cycles.
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12. Thank you!
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13. What SAP stands for
Our Purpose
SAP helps our world run better in order to create enduring prosperity for
people everywhere
 “SAP aims to not only help businesses run better, but help the world run better,” said Jim
Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO, SAP. “The Ghana EITI project is one such project where we’re
pleased to bring both our software and our industry and business process expertise to help
Ghana meet the global standard for transparency in the oil and mining industries.”
 This project presents a unique opportunity to engage within our Corporate Social
Responsibility efforts not only with a financial contribution, but also with skills and technology,
and as such help the EITI process and the country of Ghana to run better.
 This is a project with a potential to touch the lives of millions of people through good
governance.
Our Ambition
is to deliver on this purpose by making businesses and institutions around the globe
perform at a significantly higher level of efficiency and effectiveness by
enabling business network transformation and closed-loop insight-to-action
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