WASH REFLECTIONS 106
Access to safe drinking water is recognized by the Government of Ghana as a fundamental human right and a critical public health necessity. While substantial progress has been made in urban and peri-urban areas—thanks to government initiatives and private sector participation—many last-mile communities remain severely underserved. These communities are typically small, remote, and low-income, making water service delivery both challenging and costly.
09 Apr 2025
WASH REFLECTIONS 100 - State of Water Services in the Western Region and Progress of the Rural Water 'Utilitisation' Project
On 26th March 2024, IRC Ghana, in collaboration with the Rural Water Utilitisation Project (R-WUP) partners, hosted a dissemination and progress update meeting on the National Level Learning Alliance Platform (NLLAP) with over sixty-five stakeholders drawn from government, development partners, civil society organisations, local and international NGOs, academia, and the media participating.
27 Mar 2024
WASH REFLECTION 65 - Give Sanitation More Attention-WASH Sector Actors Advocate
Stakeholders in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector at the 66th National Level Learning Alliance Platform (NLLAP) meeting have called for deliberate attention to be given to sanitation in the country if Ghana wanted to make gains towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) especially SDG 6. Stakeholders were unanimous on the need for government to begin to prioritize funding for sanitation through adequate budget allocation.
23 Sep 2017
WASH Reflections 63 - Access to Bank and Operational Finance - Major Barrier to Sanitation SMEs
Participants at the Easy access to banking and operational finance among micro, small, medium and large sanitation enterprises have been identified as one of the leading barriers to their operations in Ghana. Aside, on time payment has also been identified as another barrier affecting the smooth operations of sanitation SMEs. Explaining some of the barriers that militate against the operations of sanitation SMEs in Ghana from a study of sanitation non-market environment for small and medium scale sanitation enterprises in Kumasi and Accra, Dr. Pippa Scottan I-San Associate of the Integrated Sanitation Solutions for Urban Development said the study was to understand the non-market barriers and opportunities facing small & medium scale sanitation (SME) businesses and their impact on the businesses themselves as well as on their ability to reach Low Income Urban Communities (LIUC) with appropriate products and services, while leveraging and encouraging a more substantive role for SMEs in the sector with particular interest in advocating for review of the fiscal, regulatory and policy aspects of the non-market context.
08 May 2017
WASH Reflection 62 - WASH Stakeholders Encouraged to Adopt and Adapt the SDG-PSS to Track SDG 6
Madam Lisa Guppy of the United Nations University – Institute of Water, Environment and Health has expressed the urgent need for stakeholders in the WASH sector to build synergies to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water resources and the provision of sanitation for all by 2030. She said achieving such a feat would require stakeholders to analyse their systems to identify the gaps and challenges in their domestic policies and work towards addressing them.
08 Jan 2017
WASH Reflections 57 - Recognize WASH as a Climate Adaptation Strategy — WASH Actors in Ghana Advises
Inadequate knowledge or lack of it on climate change issues and how it affects the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector among Ghanaians has been identified as one of the major inhibiting factors militating against the country's effort at combating climate change in Ghana. Policy makers and the majority of actors in the WASH sector either lack adequate knowledge of climate change issues or how it impact on WASH or generally does not have interest on climate change. That according to actors in the WASH sector account for the haphazard implementation of climate changes strategies and low understanding of the climate change among the populace and therefore called on policy implementers, civil society and all WASH sectors actors to intensify their learning and sensetisation activities on WASH based climate adaptation strategies in the Ghana. They also called for WASH to be recognized as climate change adaptation strategy. These were among a myriad of sentiments echoed by WASH sector actors at the fifty-eighth (58) edition of the National Level Learning Alliance Platform in Accra.
08 Nov 2016
WASH REFLECTIONS 53 - Up scaling retention of girls in school through MHM
Zabzugu District in the Northern Region and North Dayi District in the Volta Region are more than 340 kilometres apart, but their behavioural patterns are as closely knit as the leaves of a book.
24 Jan 2016
WASH REFLECTIONS 52 - Overcoming barriers to WASH in Health Care Facilities to meet SDGs
An assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Health Care Facilities (HCF) in six district hospitals in Ghana has shown a need to modify the operation and maintenance of hospital-based WASH systems.
24 Dec 2015
WASH REFLECTIONS 51 - The Sustainable Development Goals: A catalyst for scaling-up sanitation
Authorities have been put on alert that an estimated 85,000 hygienic toilets must be constructed each year to enable Ghana to achieve universal access to sanitation by 2030. This can be achieved if a clear strategy is developed for upscaling the delivery of household toilets to residents living in low-income urban communities in particular, and the country in general.
24 Nov 2015
WASH REFLECTIONS 50 - Water within your reach: Upscaling Roof Rainwater harvesting in Ghana
The implementation of Ghana's National Rainwater Harvesting Strategy would be given a massive shot in the arm if a project focusing on roof rainwater could be designed on a bigger scale. And the benefits of rainwater harvesting can be optimised with continued capacity building through international and public-private partnerships.
24 Jul 2015
WASH REFLECTIONS 49 - Linking WASH and Health for 'Healthy Start'
The lives of thousands of newborns and children below five years could be saved as stakeholders begin a new journey towards making water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) the underpinning factor in health delivery. This follows the unveiling of WaterAid Ghana's “Healthy Start” campaign to WASH sector stakeholders at the fiftieth edition of the National Level Learning Alliance Platform (NLLAP 50), which was held on Thursday, 19th March 2015 at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra.
23 Mar 2015
WASH REFLECTIONS 48 - CWSA makes WASH guidelines available to public
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has got the buy-in of WASH stakeholders as it embarks on the nationwide dissemination of five sector operational documents which were published in March 2014. The need for stakeholders to read the documents, make notes, identify their roles, ask for explanation from CWSA on areas where they have challenges; and the need for CWSA to mainstream information on the documents into district plans were some of the key highlights at the forty-ninth edition of the National Level Learning Alliance Platform (NLLAP 49), which was held on Thursday 5th February, 2015 at the Erata Hotel in East Legon, Accra
23 Feb 2015