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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...
A series of four videos explore the work and lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project in Ghana. Read more...
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Hon Joseph Kofi Adda inaugurates nine-member Advisory Board. Read more...
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources signs a four-year Memorandum of Understanding with IRC. Read more...
District, communities, IRC and partners pledge to deliver on SDG promises Read more...
Les autorités locales des communes de Banfora au Burkina Faso et de Asutifi North au Ghana ont partagé leurs expériences dans l'élaboration d'un plan stratégique communal « eau et assainissement ». Read more...
Study seeks solutions for sustainable small-town water service delivery. Read more...
On the whole, stakeholder monitoring tends to be disjointed, with the diverse actors failing to coalesce their efforts around a common set of indicators. And there is a conspicuous lack of regulation of the rural water sector. Read more...
Stakeholders from local government, NGOs and private sector meet to finalise district master plan. Read more...
Presidential launch of the National Sanitation Campaign in Ghana, the journey towards SDG 6.2. Read more...
IRC Ghana is partner in a new pilot called the 'District Based 100% Full WASH Coverage Initiative'. Read more...
