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It is never too early to learn good practice that may be lifesaving. Read more...
Lack of prioritisation and funding for sanitation has led to slow progress in sanitation service delivery in Ghana. Read more...
A special edition of the ANAM WASH Hubdate features recent visit of representatives of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Read more...
Video stories of political leadership, united NGOs and communities out now! Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's new Vice President of Strategy and Programs – Marc J. Holley, and Chris Dunston (Senior Program Officer) - arrived in Kenyasi on a 5-day visit to Ghana. Read more...
Local Assemblies and private partners awarded cash prizes for excellence in urban liquid waste management in Ghana. Read more...
We take you on a journey through highlights of our focus countries, collected for the IRC Annual Report 2018. Read more...
We are proud to announce that our Country Director for Ghana, Vida Duti has won the 2019 OFID Annual Award for Development for her exemplary dedication to delivering safe, reliable and affordable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to the people of Ghana, especially in Asutifi North... Read more...
The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana contest rewards transformational city-wide sanitation services. Read more...
A tool to ensure we leave no one behind while working to achieve SDG 6. Read more...
On 28 May, the Ghana Education Services are organising an event to move menstrual hygiene management to the next level. Read more...
A four-year investment phase targets communities with no water service at all and those with limited water service. Read more...
The challenge for ANAM in Ghana's Asutifi North Read more...
Asutifi North District is one of 2000 entries for the 2019 SDG Action Awards Read more...
In the peri-urban area of Wamahinso women almost fight for water as they queue for hours in the morning only for the supply to run dry before they can fill their containers. "Sometimes it is three days before we can bathe," one woman says. Ama Ampomah describes walking four and half miles (7... Read more...
In rural Agravi, things are even worse. After pumps failed and supplies dried up women lower buckets into an open well and pull them up by hand. The well is vulnerable to pollution and to animals falling in. A pump provided by the District Authority in 2012 failed within a week while another... Read more...
Goamu Asamang community has three wells and pumps for 1,800 people and none of them work well. Children miss schooling because they are helping the family collect water or waiting for parents to return from the pump. There has been little maintenance on facilities installed in 1985, 2003 and 2012... Read more...
In Tawiahkrom the main water supply is an open well where women pull up water in buckets. For most women it means an uphill walk back home carrying water. Men also collect water and carry it home on the back of bicycles. Sanitation has failed and men and women share the same public latrine. In... Read more...
The main purpose of this report is to reflect with key stakeholders involved in trying to scale up HWTS in Ghana (as part of the Safe Water Phase II) on what happened. Read more...
Two districts in the Volta Region of Ghana - Akatsi North and Akatsi South - benefited from a five-day area mechanic training. Read more...