{"id":460534,"date":"2018-02-01T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/government-secures-3m-for-national-sanitation-master-plan\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:40:56","slug":"government-secures-3m-for-national-sanitation-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/government-secures-3m-for-national-sanitation-master-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Government secures $3m for national sanitation master-plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  1 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/47386671.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi Adda Sanitation Minister Others\" title=\"Kofi Adda Sanitation Minister Others\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The ministry is developing an integrated master-plan to keep the city clean<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517510456_67_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Kofi Adda, has reiterated the need for a road-map to address sanitation challenges in the national capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a Stakeholder sensitization forum yesterday [Wednesday], Kofi Adda said it is necessary to have a plan in order to be able to address sanitation problems in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say it is critical because in any endeavour, if you do not have a good plan, you may not know where you are heading, you will be lucky to get on the right path. So we need a master plan attached to getting everything that we need to anticipate in trying to develop a very efficient sanitation module\u201d he said.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe also noted that, once the module is developed and used for the Greater Accra Region and it works effectively, the same modules will used for other regions.<\/p>\n<p>An integrated master-plan to keep the city clean known as Integrated Urban Environmental Sanitation Master Plan (IUESMP), will complement all existing strategies in the sanitation, drainage and water management sub-sectors to holistically deal with sanitation and waste.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is worth $3 million, and is funded by the World Bank. The memorandum of understanding was signed between the government and the World Bank in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative has come at a time Ghana is battling with poor sanitation and drainage systems.<\/p>\n<p>The President as part of his vision of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa, inaugurated a detailed national sanitation campaign in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday, November 13, 2017, launched the National Sanitation Campaign not only with a call for a change in attitude from Ghanaians, but some policy initiatives to enforce already existing sanitation laws.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some key points from the National Sanitation Campaign initiative:<\/p>\n<p>1.Establishment of the National Sanitation Authority<\/p>\n<p>2.Establishment of National Sanitation Fund, which will be \u201cannounced shortly,\u201d according to the President.<\/p>\n<p>3.The local government charged to ensure one house, one toilet policy is adhered to.<\/p>\n<p>4.Sanitation Ministry and Attorney General\u2019s office to set aside a day to try sanitation offences<\/p>\n<p>5.The Evaluation and Monitoring Minister is to publish Metropolitan, Municipal, District Assembly\u2019s sanitation performances quarterly.<\/p>\n<p>6.Sanitation Ambassadors will be appointed to help with the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>7.The development of three new material recovery sites for the recovery and recycling of waste from Accra.<\/p>\n<p>8.The government intends to adequately resource waste management companies with modern and effective tools for their work.<\/p>\n<p>9.All government departments and agencies will be assigned two officers, Sanitation Marshals and Deputy Marshals, to ensure the compliance with sanitation by-laws.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRw8O_gBDPI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>10.The establishment of a National Sanitation Brigade, made up of Ghanaian youth, to enforce sanitation laws nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>11.The deployment of automatic sweepers for major streets<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 48 updated by: 48 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 1 February 2018 Source: citifmonline.com 2018-02-01 The ministry is developing an integrated master-plan to keep the city clean The Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Kofi Adda, has reiterated the need for a road-map to address sanitation challenges in the national capital, Accra. Speaking at a Stakeholder sensitization forum yesterday [Wednesday], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}