WaterAid Ghana — organization implementing water, sanitation and hygiene projects across northern Ghana, including climate-resilient initiatives and health facility improvements.
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Joy Online
… In attendance at the event were representatives from UNICEF, World Health Organisation, the World Bank, World Vision Ghana, WaterAid Ghana, leadership and members of the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation, Ghana Health Service, Ghana Education Service, members of GWJN, Chi …
Go back to the hand washing days – Ghanaians toldJoy Online
… ting WASH for Safe Motherhood and Quality Healthcare.” The awards ceremony was supported by Lesken Enterprise Ltd, Myturn Limited, KacStone Records, Paga Youth Movement, NorthLite Solar Ltd, ActionAid Ghana, Afrikids Ghana, NABOCADO, Endswell Pharmacy, MTN, Alafia, WaterAid Ghana …
Deputy Education Minister appeals to striking teachers to return to classroomsJoy Online
… ting WASH for Safe Motherhood and Quality Healthcare.” The awards ceremony was supported by Lesken Enterprise Ltd, Myturn Limited, KacStone Records, Paga Youth Movement, NorthLite Solar Ltd, ActionAid Ghana, Afrikids Ghana, NABOCADO, Endswell Pharmacy, MTN, Alafia, WaterAid Ghana …
Deputy Education Minister appeals to striking teachers to return to classroomsJoy Online
… Other alumni present included legal academic Gertrude Naa Amorkor Armah, diplomat and economist Ivor Agyeman-Duah, WaterAid Ghana Country Director Ewurabena Yanyi-Akofur, award winnig journalist Evans Mensah, Ashesi University Chief Operating Officer Naa Akwetey, entrepreneur Sef …
LSE deepens Ghana ties with Accra leadership conferenceJoy Online
… Speaking at the WaterAid and JoyNews National Dialogue, Ms Nutakor said people were more likely to adopt sustainable practices when those practices were connected to their immediate realities. …
Climate action must put people’s pockets first – Expert saysThe Chronicle
… The training, organised by the Belim Wusa Development Agency (BEWDA) in partnership with WaterAid Ghana under the SIDA CLIMB Better WASH Partnership, is aimed to equip journalists with the tools to report accurately on how climate change is affecting water and sanitation in north …
Five Upper East Districts face annual crisis from climate changeThe Ghanaian Times
WaterAid Ghana has launched a US$150,000 project in the Upper East Region to help communities strengthen their resilience to the growing effects of climate change on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). …
Upper East gets $150,000 climate-resilient WASH projectThe Ghanaian Times
… The intervention, carried out under the Increase Gains in Nutrition by Integration, Education, Evaluation and Empowerment (IGNIT3) Project by WaterAid Ghana and its partners, is expected to improve service delivery, strengthen infection prevention and enhance maternal and child h …
WaterAid boosts healthcare delivery in JirapaJoy Online
… This creates a severe educational gap, with data from international organisations like WaterAid and UNICEF showing that nine out of ten girls in Ghana and 95 percent of schoolgirls in Kenya miss up to three days of school per month due to a lack of sanitary products and poor wate …
UMA-Subika champions menstrual health, healthcare infrastructure in Ahafo RegionJoy Online
… When WaterAid Ghana, a local branch on the international NGO, brought its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (known as WASH) programme to Asaloko, the focus was hygiene: toilets, handwashing, and clean water access. …
The village showing Ghana how to turn plastic into “gold” while also cleaning the airDr Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, Deputy Minister for Local Government Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, has called on Ghanaians to resume regular handwashing with soap to prevent disease, and urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to make hand hygiene a visible, funded and monitored part of their development plans, with regular inspections of public facilities.
16 October 2026 · Joy Online →
Dr Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, Deputy Minister for Local Government Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, has called on Ghanaians to resume regular handwashing with soap to prevent disease, and urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to make hand hygiene a visible, funded and monitored part of their development plans, with regular inspections of public facilities.
16 October 2026 · Joy Online →
Deputy Minister of Education Dr Clement Apaak has appealed to striking pre-tertiary teachers to return to classrooms while government works to resolve their concerns, including promotions, salary adjustments, and conditions of service. He said government had agreed that nearly 80,000 teachers who passed promotional examinations would receive new salary scales and allowances with effect from January 2026, and explained delays were partly due to data transfer challenges between the Ghana Education Service and the Controller and Accountant-General's Department.
6 October 2026 · Joy Online →
Deputy Minister Dr Clement Apaak has appealed to striking pre-tertiary teachers to return to classrooms while the government works to resolve their concerns, including promotions, salary adjustments, allowances, and conditions of service. The minister cited data-transfer delays as the reason for delayed implementation of new salary scales for nearly 80,000 teachers who passed promotional examinations, and said the government has agreed to make promotions automatic and provide new salaries effective January 2026.
5 October 2026 · Joy Online →
A senior delegation from the London School of Economics and Political Science concluded a three-day visit to Ghana to strengthen institutional ties and confirm plans to host its Programme for African Leadership conference in Accra next year. The university, which counts three former Ghanaian presidents and Kofi Annan among its notable connections to Ghana, aims to deepen its engagement across the continent.
18 September 2026 · Joy Online →
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network's Country Programme Coordinator says climate action will be limited if people are only educated about climate dangers without practical opportunities to change behaviour; she argues that people adopt sustainable practices when those practices connect to their immediate realities.
12 August 2026 · Joy Online →
For six months each year, communities in Bawku West, Bongo, Kassena Nankana Municipal, Kassena Nankana West, and Nabdam districts face water scarcity and sanitation challenges as water sources dry up during the dry season. A SIDA-CLIMB Better WASH Partnership training workshop for journalists aims to equip media practitioners to report on climate change's effects on water and sanitation in northern Ghana.
12 August 2026 · The Chronicle →
WaterAid Ghana has launched a US$150,000 project in the Upper East Region to help communities strengthen resilience to climate change impacts on water, sanitation and hygiene. The one-year FLARE project, implemented across five districts and a municipality, is expected to benefit about 14,000 people in 30 communities through women-led groups, local entrepreneurs and community organisations developing solutions to climate-related WASH challenges.
12 August 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →
WaterAid Ghana has handed over newly constructed and rehabilitated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene facilities at Sabuli and Ullo-Dante health centres in Jirapa Municipality as part of the IGNIT3 Project, which aims to integrate health, nutrition and WASH services to improve service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes in beneficiary communities.
8 June 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →
The Underground Mining Alliance, a Newmont Ahafo subsidiary, held a World Menstrual Hygiene Day campaign in Kenyasi on May 28, delivering health education and free sanitary products to basic school girls, and donated $2,000 to St. Elizabeth Catholic Hospital in Hwediem to support medical equipment replacement and emergency ward expansion from 7 to 30 beds.
29 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Residents of Asaloko, a community of about 1,200 people, collect empty water sachets and exchange them with a nearby sachet-water company for fresh drinking water supplies. The program removes as much as 5 tonnes of sachets from the community annually, addressing Ghana's broader plastic waste challenge, where roughly 840,000 tonnes are generated yearly with less than 10 per cent recycled.
8 May 2026 · Joy Online →