Update · NLAP
Flagbearers on Environmental Sanitation (FOES)
25 September 2008
Flag bearer on Environmental Sanitation (FOES) was a special seminar series organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for presidential candidates of the political parties contesting the December…
Flag bearer on Environmental Sanitation (FOES) was a special seminar series organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for presidential candidates of the political parties contesting the December 7 general election.
Flag bearer on Environmental Sanitation (FOES) was a special seminar series organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for presidential candidates of the political parties contesting the December 7 general election. It took place at the Great Hall, KNUST, Kumasi from September 23rd – 26th, 2008. The special seminar under the theme, “My Ghana – Clean and Green” had the main objective of contributing towards the definition of a strategic framework for achieving and sustaining a cleaner and healthier environment.
Sector actors like the KNUST seem to have realised that despite the annual celebrations of the National Sanitation Week, many more systemic challenges remain and constrain the achievement of sustainable improvements, and that it was about time they paid particular attention to the observation made by Prince Wilhelm-Alexander of Netherlands, the Chairman of the UN Secretary General’s Working Group on Water and Sanitation during the Global launch of the UN International Year of Sanitation (IYS 2008) in New York on November 21, 2007 that, “...I don’t think money is the biggest issue. If we take a collective decision to provide water and sanitation, the money will flow. The problem is largely one of priority and political will”.
As such they decided to create this kind of platform to know the views and positions of aspiring political leaders on environmental sanitation. The seminar was chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, Prof. K. K .Adarkwah with the chairperson of the organising committee being Prof. Mrs. Esi Awuah, the Dean of Faculty of Civil and Geomatic Engineering. The parties that took their turns to deliver their plans included the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the People’s Nat…
Flag bearer on Environmental Sanitation (FOES) was a special seminar series organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for presidential candidates of the political parties contesting the December 7 general election. It took place at the Great Hall, KNUST, Kumasi from September 23rd – 26th, 2008. The special seminar under the theme, “My Ghana – Clean and Green” had the main objective of contributing towards the definition of a strategic framework for achieving and sustaining a cleaner and healthier environment.
Sector actors like the KNUST seem to have realised that despite the annual celebrations of the National Sanitation Week, many more systemic challenges remain and constrain the achievement of sustainable improvements, and that it was about time they paid particular attention to the observation made by Prince Wilhelm-Alexander of Netherlands, the Chairman of the UN Secretary General’s Working Group on Water and Sanitation during the Global launch of the UN International Year of Sanitation (IYS 2008) in New York on November 21, 2007 that, “...I don’t think money is the biggest issue. If we take a collective decision to provide water and sanitation, the money will flow. The problem is largely one of priority and political will”.
As such they decided to create this kind of platform to know the views and positions of aspiring political leaders on environmental sanitation. The seminar was chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, Prof. K. K .Adarkwah with the chairperson of the organising committee being Prof. Mrs. Esi Awuah, the Dean of Faculty of Civil and Geomatic Engineering. The parties that took their turns to deliver their plans included the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the People’s Nat…