Friday 21st February, 2020
By Evans Nuo, GNA
Wa (UW), Feb. 21,GNA – Mr Nurudeen Ibrahim,
WASH Advocacy and Policy Officer at the Integrated Action for Community
Development (INTAGRAD), an NGO has called for the strict implementation of
sanitation issues in the communities.
He noted that even though issues of
sanitation were difficult to handle at the community level, laid-down by-laws
must be sternly enforced and culprits punished in accordance with the law.
Mr Ibrahim made the call at a day’s advocacy
training workshop to equip 18 participants drawn from the Wa Municipality to
provide them with the requisite advocacy skills on sanitation and hygiene
related activities held in Wa.
The INTAGRAD a Non-governmental Organisation,
as part of its Voice for Change (V4C) partnership project, organised the forum
to help improve sanitation and hygiene within the Upper West Region.
The forum was also to provide an enabling
environment for participants to learn and raise awareness of stakeholders and
duty bearers on the impact of sanitation and hygiene activities to community
members.
Mr Ibrahim indicated that the activity was
essentially looking to arm participants with the requisite advocacy skills to
effectively engage duty bearers on their sanitation and hygiene problems and
demand for improvements at their various communities.
He urged the participants to identify
sanitation and hygiene issues at the community level, collect evidence on
existing situations and other realistic issues.
He said tracking and reporting of changes or
improvements observed at the community and doing follow-ups on issues presented
to the assembly in a given time period would help the participants to improve
sanitation and hygiene in the communities.
GNA