Other Publications
UN Water Resource Mobilization Guide 2022
This Guide maps the funding opportunities for the UN-Water family. It offers a contextualized reading of key official development assistance (ODA) data (water and non-water related) against relevant entry points for UNWater: the size and breadth of donors’ water and sanitation investment commitments, the importance of their overall multilateral aid (including the aid channelled through the United Nations system) and mapping of the donors behind key Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) data/monitoring initiatives (all sectors)
05 Mar 2022
FROM COMMODITY TO COMMON GOOD: A FEMINIST AGENDA TO TACKLE THE WORLD’S WATER CRISIS
No life form on this planet can survive without water. Life on Earth depends on our careful stewardship of this common good. Many of the world’s first inhabitants, and the keepers and protectors of water, often Indigenous women, have long considered water to be a sacred resource with a distinct bond to all life forms. Water, from this perspective, is not a thing to be possessed, but a living entity. It must be protected from environmental damage, waste and pollution and not exploited as a commodity or financial asset.
05 Mar 2022
GHANA 2021 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS GENERAL REPORT Volume 3M Water and Sanitation
Population census is the complete enumeration of all persons in a country at a specified time. It involves the collection, compilation and dissemination of demographic, social and economic statistics relating to the population. The complementary housing census is the complete enumeration of all living quarters (both occupied and vacant) in a country at a specified time. It also involves collection, compilation, and dissemination of statistical data on living quarters and occupants
05 Feb 2022
MTNDPF 2022-2025
This Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework (MTNDPF) 2022-2025 seeks to operationalize Article 36, Clause 1 of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution, which enjoins the government to ensure that the national economy is managed efficiently to maximize the welfare of the citizenry. It was prepared with broad-based stakeholder participation, including the use of cross-sectoral planning groups (CSPGs) as enjoined by Article 15 of the National Development Planning Commission Act, 1994 (Act 479). Public consultations were also undertaken across the country, including engagement with Parliament and the presidency. It was finally approved by the Commission following approval from the presidency and presented to Parliament.
16 Dec 2021
The Sanitation and Waste Management Conundrum in Ghana: The Case for High Level Prioritization and Fiscal Incentives
Inadequate access to environmental sanitation services has been implicated in a number of mortality and morbidity situations all over the world.
11 Jun 2020
NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN GHANA
Health care facilities generate different kinds of waste during patient care and daily operations which has the potential to contribute to infections among hospital staff, patients, caregivers, and pollution of the environment
03 Sep 2019
Technical Guide for Sanitation Marketing WVG
Sanitation and hygiene remain a global challenge. Even more threatening are the rural-urban disparities and increasing inequalities in sanitation services. The WHO/UNICEF JMP report (2019 estimates that seven out of ten people who still lacked basic sanitation services lived in rural area and one third lived in the Least Developed Countries. In Ghana, about 25% of the population in urban areas do not have access to basic sanitation in contrast to 17% in rural settings.
29 Apr 2019
Cholera Prevention and Control: Lessons Learnt 2014 – 2015 and Roadmap
This report contains a summary of lessons learnt and a Road Map for the implementation of recommendations endorsed at the validation workshop. This is a part of an assignment titled “Cholera Prevention and Control: Lessons Learnt 2014 – 2015 and Roadmap” in a bid to address the almost yearly outbreak of cholera by the Government of Ghana, with support from key partners such as UNICEF.
02 Mar 2016
Public Health Act, 2012
03 Jan 2012
CLTS Training Manual Kamal Kar
02 Mar 2010
WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care
03 Jul 2009
Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation
The CLTS approach originates from Kamal Kar’s evaluation of WaterAid Bangladesh and their local partner organisation – VERC’s (Village Education Resource Centre is a local NGO) traditional water and sanitation programme and his subsequent work in Bangladesh in late 1999 and into 2000. This led to the discovery of the CLTS approach in which use of PRA methods enables local communities to analyse their sanitation conditions and collectively internalise the terrible impact of OD on public health and on the entire neighbourhood environment. (See APPENDIX A Page 76) for details. When triggered systematically and combined with ‘no-hardware subsidy’ policy and a hands-off approach by the facilitator, CLTS could provoke urgent collective local action to become totally ODF. A new style of facilitation has evolved. In its classic form, this uses the crude local word for “shit” and encourages local communities to visit the dirtiest and filthiest areas in the neighbourhood. Appraising and analysing their practices shocks, disgusts and shames people. This style is provocative and fun
05 Mar 2008