{"id":1254119,"date":"2022-11-19T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/about-1-5m-households-in-ghana-practicing-open-defecation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:44:15","slug":"about-1-5m-households-in-ghana-practicing-open-defecation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/about-1-5m-households-in-ghana-practicing-open-defecation\/","title":{"rendered":"About 1.5m households in Ghana practicing open defecation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Findings from the 2021 Population and Housing Census General Report on Water and Sanitation indicate that 1,477,747 households in Ghana do not have access to a toilet facility (either in their household or a public toilet) which is synonymous with the practice of open defecation.<\/p>\n<p>This figure represents 17.7% of the household population, with the prevalence of open defecation in rural areas (31.3%) being more than three times higher than that of urban areas (8.9%)<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of households without access to toilet facilities was 19.3% in 2010 and 20.2% in 2000 indicating a reduction of 2.5 percentage points in the prevalence of open defecation over the 21-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The regions with the highest proportion of households without access to toilet facilities are the Upper East (80.0%) and North East (79.7%) regions, where eight in every 10 households practices open defecation.<\/p>\n<p>There are six regions where more than 100,000 households are practising open defecation: Northern (242,034), Upper East (180,797), Ashanti (111,306), Greater Accra (105,717), Volta (102,997) and Bono East (102,442).<\/p>\n<p>Point of defecation for households without access to a toilet facility is predominantly bush\/open field\/gutter (1,380,720 households) followed by beach\/water bodies (61,401 households). World Toilet Day is commemorated annually on 19th November to raise awareness of the billions of people without access to proper sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 PHC General Report Volume 3M on Water and Sanitation is available to download from www.census2021.statsghana.gov.gh.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XMoy9tTVmr4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weeds at Tetteh Quarshie Interchange become cover for open defecation\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMoy9tTVmr4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from the 2021 Population and Housing Census General Report on Water and Sanitation indicate that 1,477,747 households in Ghana do not have access to a toilet facility (either in their household or a public toilet) which is synonymous with the practice of open defecation. This figure represents 17.7% of the household population, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}