{"id":397152,"date":"2018-02-01T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397152"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:25:55","slug":"govt-secures-3m-for-national-sanitation-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/govt-secures-3m-for-national-sanitation-master-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t secures $3m for national sanitation master-plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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
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
[contextly_sidebar id=”m8H6WgEO7OH0caWe7CWob3JLitgfoaCe”]\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.<\/p>\n
He 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
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
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
The initiative has come at a time Ghana is battling with poor sanitation and drainage systems.<\/p>\n
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