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 […]
Category Archives: Sanitation
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 […]
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 […]
Many people value mobile phones than toilets; 22% of Ghanaians still shit in gutters, bush — Sanitation Minister
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 […]
22% of Ghanaians Practice Open Defecation-Sanitation Minister
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 […]
GAMA SWP Parent Project Got 34,500 households with improved toilets – Eng. George Asiedu
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 […]
Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources and World Bank Ghana Country Director visit the GAMA/GKMA Sanitation and Water Project Exhibition Stand
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.
GAMA collaborates with others to reduce surge in COVID-19 cases
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 […]
GAMA and GKMA Water and Sanitation Project launched in Ghana
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) Sanitation and Water project has been launched in Ghana by the country’s Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah. According to the minister, the project will be carried out in a period of 48 months. It mainly involves the laying of […]