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Local Assemblies and private partners awarded cash prizes for excellence in urban liquid waste management in Ghana. Read more...
Although most people acknowledge the importance of learning for improving performance in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, in practice key information and knowledge are too often not (or only partly) used for the planning and implementation of interventions. Read more...
Video 'Making monitoring count' discusses the challenges around monitoring: everyone wants to know - but who needs to know? and what do we need to know? Read more...
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
Water Services that Last website launched Read more...
Mr Edem Asimah, Chairman of the Select Committee on Water and Sanitation, [has] urged government to determine its own water delivery systems for the people and not allow donors to impose their conditions on us. He said over the years various governments had failed to stop donors from imposing... Read more...
On Thursday, after 23 years of hard work and a major setback, Ghana finally declared victory over Guinea worm. Vice President John Dramani Mahama has called on volunteers and co-ordinators of the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme to be extra vigilant in ensuring that guinea worm did not resurface... Read more...
In spite of the Government's pledge to commit 0.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to sanitation, the 2011 budget made provision for only 0.1%, said Executive Secretary of the Coalition of NGOs in water and sanitation ( CONIWAS ), Mr Benjamin Arthur. Ghana is one of the signatories of the 2008... Read more...
At a capacity building workshop for members of the Ghana Watsan Journalists' Network (GWJN), an organization, which focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene, Mr Minta Aboagye, outgoing Director (Water), Ministry of Water Resource, Works and Housing (MWRWH), has said that there are plans to... Read more...
The contested public-private contract with the water supply company, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited in Ghana, has not been extended. The company, which took over the operation of Ghana’s urban water supply in 2006, was supposed to improve the accountability of water delivery over the last five years... Read more...
People across all walks of life have passionately appealed to the President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, as a matter of urgency, not to renew the water management contract with Aqua Vitens Rand. According to them, the company has worsened the urban water situation in the country. Aqua Vitens... Read more...
Current statistical data on the cholera outbreak in the Greater Accra Region indicates that 4,190 cases had been recorded, with 36 deaths. This became known when The Chronicle visited some selected hospitals in Accra to find out the state of the epidemic. According to Dr. Irene Agyepong Amarteyfio... Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation, who made the observation said this would require behavioural change... Read more...
WaterAid Ghana, a British NGO supporting the Water and Sanitation sector on Friday appealed to the government to release the $350 million it pledged annually towards the Sanitation and Water for all Ghana Compact in 2010. The Policy Manager of WaterAid Ghana, Mr Ibrahim Musah, made the call at... Read more...
Vestergaard Frandsen , an international public health intervention company, in Ghana, yesterday launched an instant microbiological water purifier, as part of their basic efforts towards eradicating water-borne diseases in the country. The instant water purifier, which is known as the LifeStraw... Read more...
Scientific organisations and researchers working in developing countries will be brought together through a network to be launched on 12 May in New York.The programme, Scientists Without Borders SM, is an initiative of the New York Academy of Sciences. It seeks to integrate the efforts of the... Read more...