GAMA SWP has built 59,000 household toilet facilities in Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi

The GAMA Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA SWP) has constructed 59,000 household toilet facilities to improve accessibility in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Areas.

In low-income metropolitan regions, these household toilet facilities were constructed to support government activities and assist the nation in achieving Sustainable Development Goals 6 (SDGs 6). Mr. Gabriel Engman, GAMA SWP's Sanitary Engineer, has stated.

The United Nations has set forth global goals 6.1 and 6.2, which require all countries to stop open defecation, provide all citizens with adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene, and guarantee that everyone has access to safe and reasonably priced drinking water by 2030, with a focus on the needs of women and girls as well as those who are vulnerable.

In an interview done off-site at the 34th Mole Conference, which is now taking place in Jirapa in the Upper West Region, Mr. Engman stressed that the GAMA SWP had further provided 598 gender-friendly sanitation facilities in the two metropolitan areas.

The goal of the GAMA SWP, a World Bank-funded project, is to enhance environmental sanitation services, water supply, and sanitation. In 2015, it started in the Greater Accra region and gradually moved to the Greater Kumasi region.

Mr. Engman noted that the initiative has assisted Ghana Water Limited in growing and providing water to 15,000 households in the areas where it is being used.

He voiced worries about the country's capacity to fulfill the UN Global Six objective, even though there was still a lot of work to be done and everyone needed to support the administration in improving the country's water and sanitation conditions.

The four-day conference on the theme "building inclusive and resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) systems to reach the unserved," which CONIWAS is organizing with assistance from its partners, is expected to draw about 170 people, including legislators, government officials, practitioners, Members of Parliament (MPs), and Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs).

World Vision Ghana and the GAMA Sanitation and Water Project are also providing conference sponsorship to some members of the Media Coalition against Open Defecation (M-CODe).

Mr. Engman expressed optimism that the initiative will obtain additional funding from the World Bank and be expanded to other locations in order to maximize benefits for the nation.

He went on to clarify that in addition to providing the physical infrastructure, the programme has provided instruction on how to use the biodigester toilets to assembly workers and members of the legal system.

It has also built two sewage systems, one in Ashaiman and the other in Bankumam, in the Tema Metropolitan Area, to appropriately manage the disposal of liquid waste.

-CDA Consult || Contributor