Environmental Health Officers in the Ashanti Region have been trained on the Public Health Act, Court Procedures and Bye Laws of the District Assemblies. The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources believes the Environmental Health Officers who also serve as prosecutors for Public Health Offences needed to be trained on the laws guarding their operations […]
Environmental health officers from eight metropolitan, municipal and districts assemblies within the Ashanti Region have undergone a capacity training programme to enable them prosecute environmental and sanitation offences as part of efforts in enforcing sanitation by-laws at the local level. A total of 86 environmental health officers from the assemblies implementing the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan […]
Mr Ousmane Diagana, Vice President, World Bank Western and Central Africa Region, has expressed his satisfaction about the ongoing World Bank project of providing household toilets to low income beneficiary households in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Assembly(GAMA) and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly(GKMA) in the country. The World Bank-funded project, which started in 2015, is aimed […]
The Vice President of the World Bank for Western and Central Africa, Ousmane Diagana, has commended Ghana for the efforts in providing low income communities with household toilet facilities to enable people live decent lives. He said poverty could be seen or felt in many ways including lack of access to some services that contribute […]
The Project team visited one of the early beneficiaries of the Project, Madam Mercy Asiedu, and presented her with an autographed picture we took of her four years ago. The picture has become a brand of the project since it has been used in many of our publications. It was a moment of joy for […]
The Project Coordinating Unit of the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) Sanitation and Water Project organised a 100-Day review of the commencement of Household Toilet construction in the eight (8) Metropolitan and Municipal Assemblies in Greater Kumasi. The review was focused on number of toilets that have been constructed since the beginning of the project […]
For the first time in a decade, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area-Sanitation and Waste Project (GAMA-SWP) has contributed to the reduction of open defecation in the region. The project, which started in 2015 and funded by the World Bank, had so far helped reduce the number of persons who practised open defecation from the 2010 […]
Kumasi, Nov. 19, GNA – The government is to construct 30,000 household toilet facilities for the people in the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan area. Among the beneficiary areas are Kumasi Metropolis, Old Tafo, Asokore Mampong, Asokwa, Ejisu, Oforikrom, and Suame Municipalities. Madam Cecilia Abenaa Dapaah, Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, who announced this said in […]
About 22% of the Ghanaian population still practice open defecation whiles only 21% have access to improved sanitation. Some 8% depended on various forms of unapproved sanitation facilities such as bucket latrines. Disclosing the state of sanitation during the celebration of 2021 World’s Toilet Day in Kumasi, Hon Cecilia Abena Dapaah- Minister for Sanitation and […]
About 22% of the Ghanaian population practiced open defecation whiles only 21% had access to improved sanitation. The remaining 8% depended on various forms of unapproved sanitation facilities such as bucket latrines. Disclosing the state of affairs during the celebration of 2021 World’s Toilet Day in Kumasi, Hon Cecilia Abena Dapaah- Minister for Sanitation and […]