Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Guinea worm Vigilance Continues in Northern Ghana
Azaratu Zakaria

DIARE, Ghana, November 2011 – Azaratu Zakaria once limped unnoticed through the dusty lanes of her village. Now she is approached by respectful strangers who call her an ambassador – something which she, as a woman with a disability in rural Ghana, never thought possible. 


The change happened in July this year after she appeared on television alongside vice president John Mahama celebrating Ghana’s success in breaking the transmission of Guinea worm – the final step before the country can claim it has eradicated the disease. The spotlight was on Azaratu, who was the last known person in Ghana to be infected with the parasite. ...read full story


  
Indigenous Transmission of Guinea Worm Interrupted in Ghana
UNICEF Rep with last Guinea Worm victim
On 28 July 2011, twenty-two years after the inception of the Ghana Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (GGWEP),Ghana officially announced breaking the transmission of indigenous infections of the Guinea Worm disease in the country. The GGWEP was established in 1989, at a time when the country recorded nearly 189,000 cases, and after two decades of intense eradication efforts the last case was recorded in May 2010. The country has not recorded a single case since...read full report




CLTS - Making the Technology Link
A presentation on the lessons from Integrated Approach to Guinea Worm Eradication through Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the Northern Region, Ghana (I-WASH) ...download document


The CWSA, Plan, UNICEF and WaterAid have been piloting CLTS since 2007 in approximately 308 communities in Northern, Upper West, Eastern, Central and Greater Accra Regions with an attempt to scale up hygiene and sanitation improvements. The four organisations set up the pilot exercises independently of each other and adopted slightly different institutional arrangements, drawing facilitators from different local government departments and NGOs.

CLTS1 is described as a new approach to achieving better sanitation which fosters innovation and commitment within the community and motivates them to build their own sanitation infrastructure, without depending on hardware subsidies from external agencies. It focuses on igniting change in sanitation behaviour through a process of social awakening rather than constructing toilets. It is an integrated approach to achieving and sustaining Open Defecation Free (ODF) status in communities. It entails facilitating community analysis of their sanitation profile, defecation practices, and consequences and leads to collective action to become ODF. ...read more


This resource book lists the steps and tasks that should be carried out to comply with the minimum standards of the district protocol in more detail, suggesting a range of tools which can be used to help you to achieve improved sanitation and hygiene ...read more




Towards Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Behaviour - Case Studies From Ghana and Beyond This report is a compilation of some of the organisations trying to implement Household water treatment and safe storage in Ghana and also drawing some examples from other countries. The purpose of this compilation is to look at what organisations are using especially the approaches to reach out to a sustained HWTS program. ...read more

This national strategy on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) in Ghana was developed from consultations that came from the assessment report on Household Water Treatment and Safe storage in Ghana commissioned by UNICEF and consulting different stakeholders working in the WAS sector and collaborating with the Government of Ghana. ...read more


This assessment is concerned with the use of Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) as a compliment to challenges involved to providing the populace of Ghana with improved and safe drinking water. This assessment revealed that majority of people understand the importance of safe water to prevent diseases but many times they have to drink unsafe water due to several reasons including access and behavior. ...read more ...read more


Use of safe sanitation in Ghana is abysmal. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report suggests that sanitation coverage in Ghana is approximately of 13%1. In other words, only that percentage uses “acceptable or improved” latrines. The National Environmental Sanitation Policy recognizes Community Led Total Sanitation as the approach for sanitation promotion in Ghana. A number of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) pilot projects have, for the last four years, been implemented in Ghana and an evaluation of selected CLTS pilot projects in Ghana concluded that the approach can rapidly change attitudes towards sanitation practices and ignite efforts by communities to improve the sanitation situation in their communities, including increasing demand for latrines. ...read more

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