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The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources in collaboration with Kumasi Technical University through the GAMA/GKMA SWP has trained over 600 students from the Building Technology

The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources in collaboration with Kumasi Technical University through the GAMA/GKMA SWP has trained over 600 students from the Building Technology Department in Biodigester Toilet Construction and Installation. The training which lasted for three days was filled with intensive hands-on training in installing and constructing the Bio-Digester Toilet Technology […]

The World Bank’s Global Water Practice Director, Mr. Saroj Kumar Jha has paid a field visit to beneficiaries of the GAMA Sanitation and Water Project in the La Nkwantanan Madina, Ga East Municipal and Ga West Municipal Assemblies.

Mr. Kumar Jha interacted with household toilet beneficiaries in Madina, Social Welfare, pupils, and teachers of the Kwabenya Atomic M/A 5 JHS in the Ga East Municipal and Opa JHS within the Ga West Municipal Assembly. He encouraged the students and management of the Opa JHS to ensure continuous maintenance of the toilet facilities and […]

Sanitation Ministry trains Environmental Health Officers on sanitation laws

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 Officers Build Capacity in Prosecution

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 […]

World Bank lauds Ghana for GAMA, GKMA projects

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 […]

World Bank Vice President visits Water and Sanitation Project sites

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 visits one of the early beneficiaries of the Project

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 […]

100 Day Review of Household Sanitation Facilities Provision Workshop

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 […]

GAMA Project achieves significant milestone in sanitation, water for first time in 10 years

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 […]

Gov’t to construct 30,000 household toilets in Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area

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 […]