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Nigeria: Launching the Multi-Sectoral Partnership on Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene
29 Dec 10
In a bid to improve cleanliness in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with Initiative for Community Development, has come to a round table to discuss ways and means to employ collective approach in tackling the problems and …Continue reading →
Ghana: first National Environmental Sanitation Conference takes place in Kumasi
21 Dec 10
The government should set up a revolving fund for Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) initiatives, in collaboration with Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) and local government. This was one of the recommendations from Ghana’s first National Environmental Sanitation Conference (NESCON). The conference was …Continue reading →
Nigeria: Agency launches sanitation project in three Katsina Local Government Areas
10 Dec 10
The Katsina State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA) has launched a project for the actualization of 100 percent sanitation, water and hygiene coverage in three selected local government areas of the state by the year 2014. The project, …Continue reading →
Ghana: Beverage companies should be charged commercial tariffs for water
09 Dec 10
Mr Alban Sumani Kingsley Bagbin, Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, has suggested that water supplied to beverage companies should be charged commercial tariffs to raise enough revenue for the State. He explained that the beverage companies use about …Continue reading →
Ghana: Stakeholders in the water and sanitation sectors meet in Wa
03 Dec 10
Major stakeholders in the water and sanitation sectors in the Upper West Region have held a meeting at Wa to deliberate on issues affecting the two sectors and chart possible ways of addressing challenges to enhance effective implementation of their …Continue reading →
Nigeria: 69 million locals lack safe drinking water – survey
03 Dec 10
The Project Supervisor of Global Initiative for Women and Children (GIWAC) Jamilu Mustapha Ango has said that the result of a survey carried out by the group revealed that about 69 million people do not have access to safe drinking …Continue reading →
Ghana / Benin: RUPFA supports water projects in 3 VR communities
24 Nov 10
Rural Urban Partnership for Africa (RUPFA), a Non-Governmental Organisation, is spending Ghana cedis (GH¢)12,000 for the laying of pipes for the provision of potable water in three communities near Aveyime-Battor in the Volta Region. The communities include Megbedrakofe, Abukofe and …Continue reading →
Nigeria: Canada, NGO partner to tackle diarrhoea
24 Nov 10
The Canadian Government said it would get communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) involved in tackling filthy environment and waste management to eradicate diarrhoea in Nigeria. Speaking during a community-led sanitation and waste management advocacy in Abuja, a Counsellor …Continue reading →
Ghana: Sanitation is dignity indeed!
19 Nov 10
Kwaku, a 21 year-old man, born and bred in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, had lived all his life in one of the luxurious mining bungalows. After obtaining a Diploma in Information Technology at the Koforidua Polytechnic, he decided he …Continue reading →
Nigeria: WHO to certify guinea worm free by 2011 says Federal Government
16 Nov 10
Chief Consultant, Epidemiologist in the Federal Ministry of Health, Henry Akpan, disclosed that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is to present Nigeria with the certificate of guinea worm disease eradication next year. He said this on Wednesday 10 November 2010 …Continue reading →
