Moving from a project cycle to a service delivery approach in Ghana. 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 0.1%, said CONIWAS Executive Secretary Benjamin Arthur. The government was also not fulfilling its promise to commit 200 million dollars every year towards water... 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...
A new World Bank study on gender and water access suggests that a 15 minute reduction in water collection time increases the proportion of girls attending school in Ghana by 8-12 percent. Read more...
The immediate past Director for Technical Services at the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr. R. K. D. Van Ess has stated that the concept of the Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) on costing WASH services being researched by the WASHCost Project in Ghana, is a laudable one for... Read more...
The Country Director for WASHCost Project Ghana, Dr Kwabena Nyarko, has called on the WASH sector in Ghana to use the Life-Cycle Cost Approach to ensure sustainability of service delivery in the sector. At the CWSA head office, Dr Nyarko said WASHCost has quantified the actual cost of delivering... 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...
Le 15 mai, Stephen Axelson a mobilisé 250 personnes parmi ses voisins, ses camarades scouts et des élèves de deux écoles secondaires de Virginie pour une Marche pour l’eau en Afrique, dans la banlieue de Washington. Le jeune Axelson est … Read more...
Triple-S Ghana a choisi trois régions comme de pilotage de l’Approche à la livraison des services (SDA) au niveau district. Chaque centre participera à l’application de l’approche de recherche action dans laquelle les étapes vers la mise en œuvre de la SDA et l’efficacité de livraison de service... Read more...
« Chaque année, je sélectionne quatre ou cinq villages et demande aux habitants ce dont ils ont vraiment besoin. Je ne leur impose rien. Certains des 210 villages demandent des toilettes, d'autres demandent qui un dispensaire, qui une école ou des installations d'eau. Nous essayons de trouver un... Read more...
The latest trend in Dutch politics is to label anything of parties of another political colour as hobbyism. 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...