The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources has urged all stakeholders in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to contribute more to make review of the Environmental Sanitation Policy a success.
The Ministry said, though the 2010 policy had gained some achievements including, construction of toilet facilities, treatment plants among others in the country, more needed to be done because of increase in population and waste.
Dr Bertha Darteh, a member of the consulting team from TREND – ECOPSIS supporting the Ministry on the revision, disclosed this to Ghana News Agency in Ho, during the MOLE conference.
She explained that the Sanitation and Water Resources ministry was currently working with stakeholders in the WASH sector to review the 2010 environmental sanitation policy.
Dr Darteh said the idea was to identify the gaps in the 2010 policy, and based on that, they produced several policy directions to inform the new policy on how to manage sanitation better.
In addition, she said the new policy has seven policies thrust including, sanitation for all, sanitation as a service and ensuring there were financially sustainable services to recover cost.
“We also want to have resilience sanitation which means that our sanitation facilities will be resilient to effects of climate change and will not contribute too much to green house, but when there is an emergency, we need to respond in sanitation services.”
Dr Darteh mentioned that “strengthening the institutions that delivered sanitation, coordination, behavior change, infrastructure, funding and financing, data and research and innovation as the goals of the policy thrust”
These, she added, were the fundamental areas they had agreed with stakeholders that should be considered in revising the 2010 policy into a new policy document”.
GNA
JP/KOA/LAA
Oct 10,2024
