WAG Global Strategic Plan

                                             WASH STRATEGIC PLAN

 Water Aid Ghana has designed a five-year Global Strategic Plan spanning 2015 to 2020. The Plan is to help reduce the inequalities in the WASH sector and improve hygiene. Explaining the plan to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health in Accra, the Country Director of Water Aid Ghana, Dr. Afia Zakiya, said the Strategy will promote positive hygiene behaviours and attitudes towards WASH. Water Aid Ghana, an International Non-Governmental Organization for the past years has been collaborating with stakeholders and other civic society organizations in Ghana to transform lives by improving access to potable water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities. Dr. Zakiya said the five year strategic plan will strengthen and support the capability of governments and other service providers to deliver sustainable WASH services. She explained that bridging the inequality gap, the strategy will enable the poorest and most marginalized people to realize their rights to water, sanitation and hygiene. She noted that it is important to promote the integration of water, sanitation and hygiene into other areas of human development critical for poverty eradication and sustainable development. She said the lack of potable water and proper sanitation practices have a serious implication on a nation’s development, adding that about 19-thousands Ghanaians including five thousand one hundred children under age five die annually from diarrhoea. Dr. Zakiya said from April 2013 to April 2014 Water Aid Ghana has exceeded its service delivery target in the water and sanitation sector in some the urban and rural areas. She said the target set during the periods under review for water in the urban area was 32-thousand-586 and the rural areas was 40-thousand-566 with the target plan at 51-thousand but it exceeded its target to 73-thousand-152. She added that the target set for sanitation in the urban areas was seven-thousand-384 and the rural areas was 19-thousand-762 and the planned target was 44-thousand-200 and exceeded its planned target to 27-thousand-146. Dr. Zakiya said Water Aid Ghana will support governments and service providers to develop their capacity to deliver safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation by the end of this year.