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Regional news for Sunday February 7, 2021
Source: GNA
02/07/2021
File photo of a man defecating in the open
The Upper West Regional Interagency Coordinating Committee on Sanitation (RICCS) says COVID-19 is hurting the open defecation-free (ODF) campaign in the region.
According to the committee, due to the outbreak of the pandemic in the country since March 2020, it has not been able to facilitate the conversion of more open defecation communities to ODF status compared to previous years.
In a presentation to the committee meeting in Wa, Mr. Agambire Alhassan Inussah, the monitoring and evaluation coordinator at the Regional Department of Environmental Health and Sanitation, said that by 2020, only 49 communities could achieve open defecation free (ODF) status.
Mr. Innusah noted that the committee will strengthen its collaboration with stakeholders and partners to improve ODF campaign and RICCS activities.
He said the Nandom Municipal Assembly had issued its sanitation statutes and encouraged other municipal and district assemblies (MDAs) to do the same to help end open defecation in the city. region.
He said the ODF campaign had been suspended due to the failure of MDAs to allocate funds for sanitation-related activities in their respective jurisdictions.
Mr. Gilbert Nuuri-Teg, the director of regional coordination for Upper West, who also serves as president of the RICCS, urged members to show maximum commitment to the activities of the committee to help achieve its goals.
Currently, the Upper West region has 779 communities out of a total of 1,169 that have achieved ODF status, or 66.7 percent.
The others are Nadowli-Kaleo district with 128 communities, Wa West District 160, Lawra Municipality 75, Daffiama-Bussie-Issa District 84, Jirapa Municipality 79, Lambussie District 48, Sissala West District 36, Sissala East Municipality 15, Wa East District 48, and the Municipality of Wa 18.
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