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 Reflection 58 - Innovative Financing and Enforcement of Sanitation Bylaws are Cardinal to Improved Sanitation in Ghana.
One most important issue that dominates and continues to dominate in any discussions on sanitation and hygiene is financing, innovation, private sector participation and enforcement of sanitation bylaws. NLLAP 59 was no exception, as a participant upon participant shared varied experiences and opinions regarding how innovative financing, innovative sanitation technologies, private sector led sanitation marketing and promotion, and enforcement of sanitation bylaws by the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies could contribute immensely to a significant improvement in sanitation and hygiene in Ghana. Participants were unanimous on the fact that innovative financing was indeed needed to drive accessibility of toilet facilities to poor households in communities, while ensuring the enforcement of sanitation bylaws through collaborative efforts of the EHSD, the Police Service and the Judiciary.
12 Oct 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
WASH REFLECTIONS 47 - Growing the waste re-use idea: The business opportunities
The time has come for authorities to recognise the business aspect of the concept of design for re-use by organizing a series of fora where the business community will engage in identifying possible areas for investment. This will help improve the present state of liquid waste and faecal sludge treatment and address concerns that treatment plants in Ghana are poorly operated and maintained. Financial constraints for operation and maintenance (O&M) of these facilities have often been cited as the main reason for this situation.
23 Jan 2015
WASH REFLECTIONS 43 - Up-scaling WASH through Endogenous Development
The time has come for serious consideration to be given to a development process that respects and utilizes traditional Ghanaian culture, the wisdom of elders and indigenous resources in combination with alternative (global) cultural, material, and social resources and science.
23 Jul 2014
WASH Reflections 24 - Technology Assessment Framework (TAF) for sustainable WASH services in Ghana
The introduction of a robust methodology for WASH Technology appraisal, termed the Technology Assessment Framework (TAF) was welcomed by WASH stakeholders at the 25th edition of the National Level Learning Alliance Platform (NLLAP 25) meeting in Accra. In a lively interactive session that also saw the formal launch of the WASHTech project, participants expressed the need for an enforcement mechanism for technology introduction, approval and use; and hoped that the draft TAF will be fine-tuned, after the testing of the six selected WASH technologies, to provide a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovations.
05 Nov 2012