Reporting Organization: | UNDP - United Nations Development Programme |
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Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 19,915,000 |
Timeframe: | March 24, 2014 - July 19, 2016 |
Status: | Completion |
Contact Information: | Unspecified |
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Ghana - $ 19,915,000.00 (100.00%) | |
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WASH (90 %) | |
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Disaster Risk Reduction & Early Recovery (10 %) | |
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The project is designed to increase access to disaster-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, and to strengthen preparedness for natural disasters, in at-risk communities in Northern Ghana. Through provision of sanitation facilities, hygiene promotion, safe water, and disaster risk reduction activities, the project aims to improve health and strengthen disaster preparedness among 200,000 people (including 50,000 schoolchildren) in 265 disaster-prone communities. In addition, project activities include capacity-building to support sustainable delivery and management of disaster-resilient WASH facilities by stakeholders at the national, regional, district and community levels.
Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) increased equitable use of disaster-resilient improved sanitation and water facilities by people in disaster-prone communities in Northern Ghana; (ii) improved hygiene practices among women, men, girls and boys before, during and after disasters in disaster-prone communities in Northern Ghana; and (iii) improved planning and implementation of WASH programs by local institutions.
Results achieved as of March 2016 include:
(1) To improve access to potable drinking water, 56 new boreholes were drilled, 72 existing boreholes rehabilitated and 6 hand dug wells were rehabilitated ; (2) Disaster resilient platforms were constructed on 18 of the boreholes making them flood-resilient; (3) Water quality testing was carried out on all new and rehabilitated water points; (4) Water and Sanitation Management Teams were formed and trained in 102 communities for effective and sustainable management of water facilities; (5) 6 disaster-resilient and gender-friendly latrines were constructed for basic schools (which is equivalent to primary and junior high school) and 116 others have been started; (6) Community-Led Total Sanitation activities were rolled out in 104 communities to promote the construction of household WASH facilities; (7) Staff in the three Regional Coordinating Councils and District Assemblies were trained on Disaster Risk Assessment and the preparation of Emergency Response Action Plans.
These results have contributed to increased regional, district and local capacity for sustainable management of WASH facilities.