GHANA SPENDS $290m ANNUALLY ON POOR SANITATION - SANITATION MINISTER
Ghana stands at losing $290 million annually in the fight against poor sanitation across the country.
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, disclosed this on Tuesday in Accra, while reading a study conducted by the Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank.
The study, she says, reviles that the amount is equivalent to $12 per person per year in Ghana which represents to 1.6 percent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “It makes a lot of economic sense to invest in sanitation; every Dollar invested in sanitation yields $5 dividends.” Mrs. Dapaah stressed.
The Minister further indicated that sanitation services delivery in the country have witnessed a significant improvement in recent times as compared to previous years. She said, “ based on the 2019 report released by the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation, 75% of the solid waste generated in the urban centres is now properly managed.”
She said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa is the ministry number one priority and so the strategies and measures adopted by the ministry is to see the vision come to pass by improving on sanitation situation in the country within a short period of time.
She explained that “this vision is actively being pursued highly by the Ministry in collaboration with the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), the stakeholders and other private service providers.” She said the ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has lazed up its monitoring efforts to ensure service delivery by the MMDAs and members of the environmental Services Providers Association (ESPA) within the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and its environs in particular and across the entire country as a whole.
By: Akgri M. Daniel
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, disclosed this on Tuesday in Accra, while reading a study conducted by the Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank.
The study, she says, reviles that the amount is equivalent to $12 per person per year in Ghana which represents to 1.6 percent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “It makes a lot of economic sense to invest in sanitation; every Dollar invested in sanitation yields $5 dividends.” Mrs. Dapaah stressed.
The Minister further indicated that sanitation services delivery in the country have witnessed a significant improvement in recent times as compared to previous years. She said, “ based on the 2019 report released by the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation, 75% of the solid waste generated in the urban centres is now properly managed.”
She said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa is the ministry number one priority and so the strategies and measures adopted by the ministry is to see the vision come to pass by improving on sanitation situation in the country within a short period of time.
She explained that “this vision is actively being pursued highly by the Ministry in collaboration with the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), the stakeholders and other private service providers.” She said the ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has lazed up its monitoring efforts to ensure service delivery by the MMDAs and members of the environmental Services Providers Association (ESPA) within the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and its environs in particular and across the entire country as a whole.
By: Akgri M. Daniel
