Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to mainstream climate adaptation strategies into their medium-term development plans to help mitigate climate change effects and water crisis. WaterAid Ghana, a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) focused organisation, noted that challenges of climate change posed significant stress to livelihoods of…
Water Aid Ghana launched a hygiene behaviour change campaign project in the Bawku West
Water Aid Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization, has launched a hygiene behaviour change campaign project in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region to improve the adoption and sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) best practices.
The project dubbed, “Clean Community Campaign” under the Water Aid Ghana’s Securing Water Resources Approach Project, is being funded by the People Postcode Lottery (PPL), an international organization and seeks to inculcate the practice of good hygiene into communities in the district.
The campaign would be implemented in 30 communities and 10 healthcare facilities in the district and would involve hygiene behaviour change competition among beneficiary households, communities and healthcare facilities regarding clean toilets and kitchens.
Speakers at a capacity-building workshop by WaterAid, a non-governmental organisation in water and sanitation, have said the government must allocate more resources to climate change communication in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The effects of the pandemic being felt globally with attendant climate change challenges, including sanitation and hygiene issues, the speakers underscored effective communication skills at the local level to bring behavioural changes that would prevent the spread of the disease.
The capacity building workshop, in Accra, attended by government actors, policy makers, environmentalists and journalists, and addressed by environmental scientists and communication experts, brought to the fore ravages of the Covid-19 disease.
WaterAid Ghana builds capacity of media, other stakeholders on climate change
By Eric Nana Yaw Kwafo LISTEN
JAN 28, 2021
WaterAid Ghana on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, ended a two-day capacity building workshop for media personnel and other stakeholders at the Fiesta Royale Hotel in Accra.
The Civil Society Organisation (CSO) that has been in Ghana since 1985 continues to work with a focus on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH).
Factoring in climate change that is entwined with the aforementioned, WaterAid Ghana has taken a keen interest and as such has commissioned research to promote its advocacy work to propel government to adopt key policies.
WaterAid handover GH¢800,000 composite toilet facility to La Wireless Schools LISTEN
JAN 22, 2021
The United Kingdom based WaterAid, an international non-governmental organisation, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene, on Thursday handed over a composite water closet toilet facility, estimated at GH¢800,000 to the La Wireless Cluster of Schools, in Accra.
The facility is made up of 28 seater toilet facility; 14-each for males and female- a bore hole, a water pumping machine and water storage systems.
The toilet facility, in two block building structures, replaces an old dilapidated structure that was pulled down to make way for the new one which began sometime after the visit of Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth Britain, to Ghana in 2019.