DISTRICT SANITATION FUND TOOLKIT
By UNICEF · 24 January 2020
An estimated 19% practice open defecation in Ghana. The application of this proportion on the estimated 5,467,136 households comes to 1,038,755 households without household latrines. The problem is, a number of these households do not earn enough money to make one-off Investments in the acquisition of household latrines. As a result, many of them will continue to openly defecate and or turn to the use of unsafe toilet facilities.
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