{"id":778592,"date":"2020-01-08T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/districts-urged-to-play-complementary-roles-in-improving-sanitation\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:25:03","slug":"districts-urged-to-play-complementary-roles-in-improving-sanitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/districts-urged-to-play-complementary-roles-in-improving-sanitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Districts urged to play complementary roles in improving sanitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nFatima Anafu-Astanga, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Sandema (UE\/R), Jan.<br \/>\n8, GNA &#8211; Mr Vanguard Bortie, the District Environment and Sanitation Officer of<br \/>\nBuilsa North in the Upper East Region, has urged district assemblies to play<br \/>\ncomplementary roles in enforcing sanitation by-laws to keep the communities<br \/>\nclean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He said though some<br \/>\ndistrict assemblies were doing well in formulating by-laws on sanitation, the<br \/>\nwork of the environment and sanitation staff would be easier when it was<br \/>\ncomplemented by the security and sanitation courts, to ensure enforcement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cWhen these<br \/>\ncomplementary roles are absent, it becomes risky for one stakeholder to operate<br \/>\nand arrest defaulters of sanitation,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Speaking in an<br \/>\ninterview with the Ghana News Agency at Sandema, Mr Bortier said the importance<br \/>\nof education and advocacy were critical to behavioural change promotion in<br \/>\ncommunities and advised stakeholders not to relent on their efforts in<br \/>\neducating the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He said access to<br \/>\nhousehold toilets, water and sanitation had to be attached to behavioural<br \/>\nchange promotion in order to ensure effective Water, Sanitation and Hygiene<br \/>\n(WASH) services in communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cIf you provide<br \/>\npotable water to communities and fail to sensitise the people well on other<br \/>\naspects of sanitation, including transportation of the water to homes and its<br \/>\neventual usage, it could also be a danger,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He said the<br \/>\ntransmission of disease causing agents through faecal matter was one cause of<br \/>\ntropical diseases and called on the assemblies to collaborate with partners in<br \/>\nwater delivery to help make sanitation coverage holistic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">On access to<br \/>\nhousehold toilets, he said the challenges some tenants faced with their<br \/>\nlandlords in the provision of toilets were enormous and advised those in such<br \/>\nsituations to amicably solve the issue to improve on situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fatima Anafu-Astanga, GNA Sandema (UE\/R), Jan. 8, GNA &#8211; Mr Vanguard Bortie, the District Environment and Sanitation Officer of Builsa North in the Upper East Region, has urged district assemblies to play complementary roles in enforcing sanitation by-laws to keep the communities clean. 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