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SWA-Climate-Resilient WASH - Definition Paper [ENG]
Climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from, adapt to or transform based on climate-related events and trends - all while striving to achieve and maintain universal and equitable access to safely managed services, minimizing emissions where appropriate, and paying special attention to the most exposed and vulnerable groups.
22 Apr 2026
GHANA STATISTICAL SERVICE DP PLATFORM NEWSLETTER Quarter 1 2026
The first three months of 2026 brought a steady stream of economic data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), providing fresh insights into consumer and producer prices, economic activity, and movements in building costs.
05 Apr 2026
From Commitments to Action: Financing Equitable WASH Services in Ghana.
The briefing note, highlights a critical funding shortfall in Ghana's Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector. While nominal GHS expenditure has risen, real investment in USD was cut nearly in half between 2019 and 2022 due to inflation, national debt, and currency depreciation, causing sector expenditure as a share of GDP to fall from 2.67% to 1.39%. Funding is heavily skewed toward urban areas and water supply (58%), leaving rural communities, Water Resources Management (at 0.1%), and sanitation/hygiene severely underfunded—well below the international 0.5% GDP Ngor Commitment benchmark. Furthermore, households bear 80% of total sector costs through tariffs and self-supply, placing a heavy burden on poorer families. To achieve universal basic access by 2030, the document calls on the government, donors, NGOs, and the private sector to bridge the annual ~$500 million funding gap, ring-fence funds for underfunded sub-sectors, and prioritize resource allocation toward rural areas and deprived regions like the Northern, Upper, and Oti regions.
25 Feb 2026
084-202505[Briefing Note WASH Financing]04
084-202505[Briefing Note WASH Financing]04 — a WASH sector resource shared by RCN Ghana.
11 Nov 2025
Willingness to pay and demand for sanitation products in rural Northern Ghana
This study was conducted as part of the Enhancing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (EnWASH) Program, which aimed to increase adoption of sustainable and equitable water, sanitation, and hygiene services, and to enhance governance and financing related to these services, across 30 districts located within six regions of northern Ghana. The EnWASH Program focused particularly on communities with high levels of poverty and low access to water and sanitation.
30 May 2025
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Plans to improve community and institutional water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services often fail to include budget for maintenance and large repairs. A life cycle costing approach (LCCA) can help by providing a detailed breakdown of the costs for delivering sustainable WASH services. This enables district and regional decision-makers to make informed planning and funding decisions, support bilateral and multilateral donors to allocate funding to fill identified gaps, and advise local and international NGOs
15 Apr 2025
Economics FinancialPerformanceBrief Ghana compressed (1)
Piped water access remains limited in Ghana. Only 45% of households use piped water as their primary drinking water source. This proportion is much lower in rural areas, where only 19% of households have access to piped water. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal for water in Ghana will require substantial expansion of piped water supply in rural areas. Increasing the coverage and quality of piped water services requires financial investment, but financial data from rural water suppliers across Africa is often unavailable and unstandardized. As a result, funders, governments, and service providers struggle to accurately characterize costs of delivering safe water services. Limited planning and financing for the ongoing operation and maintenance (O&M) of rural water systems leaves many communities with inadequate access to safe water. For example, in rural Ghana, piped water systems often supply water intermittently and without consistent treatment
03 Mar 2025
EXAMINING THE PERFORMANCE OF PIPED WATER SUPPLIERS IN RURAL GHANA
Piped water access remains limited in Ghana. Only 45% of households use piped water as their primary drinking water source. This proportion is much lower in rural areas, where only 19% of households have access to piped water. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal for water in Ghana will require substantial expansion of piped water supply in rural areas
20 Jan 2025
WaterTRACS Chemical Results Brief Ghana AsutifiNorth
Globally, microbial drinking water quality remains a top health concern in low- and middle-income countries. There are also health risks associated with chemicals like fluoride, arsenic, and nitrates, which may be present in drinking water. Further, growing evidence indicates widespread lead contamination in drinking water supplies, often being introduced through lead-containing water system components. In Ghana, including Asutifi North District, mining operations have also significantly contributed to environmental and drinking water contamination.
15 Jan 2025
CHEMICALS AND HEAVY METALS IN DRINKING WATER IN WASSA EAST DISTRICT, GHANA
Globally, microbial drinking water quality remains a top health concern in low- and middle-income countries. There are also health risks associated with chemicals like fluoride, arsenic, and nitrates, which may be present in drinking water. Further, growing evidence indicates widespread lead contamination in drinking water supplies, often being introduced through lead-containing water system components. In southwestern Ghana, including Wassa East District, mining operations have also significantly contributed to environmental and drinking water contamination
23 Dec 2024
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GAMA SANITATION AND WATER PROJECT (2014-2020)
This fact sheet presents evidence in support of how effective the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA SWP) was in relation with set implementation targets and actual results as at the official end of the project in December 2020. Data presented in this brief document covers provision of household and institutional toilets, improving access to household water connections, improvement and expansion of sanitation services, adherence to Environmental and Social Safeguards policies, and institutional strengthening. All information contained in this fact sheet was obtained from the Project Completion Report prepared by the Project Coordinating Unit (PCU), and the Beneficiaries Assessment Report (2020) submitted by the Institute of Local Government Studies.
08 Oct 2024
A SUMMARY OF MAJOR WRM & WASH INDICATORS AND MINIMUM TARGETS
Ghana has set a clear vision, objectives, and targets for IWRM and WASH by 2030. This brief attempts a summary of these key objectives and targets for WRM, drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene to facilitate dissemination of the Ghana WASH Sector Development Programme. Targets in this document imply minimum and full funding scenarios. The minimum funding scenario is where the country maintains the current sector funding rates over the past ten years, and full funding scenario is where the country is able to raise all funds needed to provide 100% WASH and WRM services to all its citizens by 2030.
08 Oct 2024