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 […]
Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Hon. Cecilia Abena Dapaah and Country Director of the World Bank Ghana, Pierre Laporte visit the GAMA/GKMA Sanitation and Water Project Exhibition Stand at the Ongoing Mole XXXII Confrence @ Anita Hotel in Kumasi. The conference is from 1-5 November 2021.
The Coordinator for the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) Sanitation and Water Project (SWP), Engineer George Asiedu says, a target of 19,100 households toilets for the parent project of GAMA SWP was successfully achieved. According to him, the parent project was completed in December 2020 and was very successful […]
About 550,000 Ghanaians in low income urban communities of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) are expected to receive improved water and sanitation services in the coming months. This follows the approval of an additional financing of US$ 125 million by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors […]
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry in collaboration InGenius Africa and Graphic Communication Group have embarked on a Television series dubbed corona life aimed at creating an attitudinal change among the populace, in an effort to reduce covid-19 pandemic. The series which aims at attitudinal change which […]
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project with funding from the World Bank and support from the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry, is collaborating with InGenius Africa and Graphic Communications Group to sensitize Ghanaians on behavior change through corona life series to reduce the surge in COVID-19 cases. On Tuesday, July 14 […]