Category: WASH
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WUZDA Meets With Partners In Communication And Information Technology To Brainstorm On Business Approaches To Its Operations
For some NGOs in the Northern Region of Ghana, the days of charity and freebies given to communities are over. For these NGOs, communities have to be empowered enough to take up responsibility of providing for themselves their basic needs and to instill in them good maintenance practices. This is also partly because international donors
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World Toilet Day Commemorated In Northern Region By Stakeholders
Stakeholders in the sanitation sector in the Northern Region have commemorated the World Toilet for 2016.The day, which falls every 19th November, is aimed at discussing issues surrounding the importance of household toilets and to discourage open defecation. This year’s commemoration was under the theme, ‘’ ‘Toilets and jobs’, focusing on how sanitation, or the
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Akvo Trains Wash Alliance Members On ‘It’ Based Data Collection And Survey Methods
The Ghana WASH Alliance, a member of the International WASH Alliance, has organized a 4 day training workshop on the usage of IT in data collection and carrying out surveys for NGO’s operating in the Water and Sanitation sector. This workshop is being facilitated by Akvo which is a member of the international WASH Alliance.
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WUZDA In Partnership With Key Stakeholders In Northern Region Verify Districts On Status Of Open Defecation
Nanumba north, Savelugu and Kumbungu districts are the latest to submit their names for verification on Open Defecation status after stakeholders launched the Open Defecation League Table which was aimed at rekindling the efforts and zeal of districts in their fights against indiscriminate defecation in the open. Various stakeholders including the region’s Environmental Health and
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WaterAid in Partnership With WUZDA Organizes Three Day Training For CSOs In Northern Ghana
Three days, 12th, 13th and 14th of July will remain in the minds of NGOs across the northern region as WaterAid Ghana facilitated two separate trainings for them. The trainings were on Human Relations/ Human Resource Development and advocacy to help in improving the governance systems and to aid the various organizational managements identify potentials
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WUZDA Presents WASH Facilities To Schools In Tamale Metropolis
The Wuni Zaligu Development Association (WUZDA) has donated nine ‘Veronica’ hand washing cans, three plastic drinking containers and three cartons of soap to three basic schools in the Tamale Metropolis. The donations which were done through an initiation from the Tamale Central Sub metro, was to promote sanitation and hygiene in schools and to inculcate
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Ghana WASH Alliance Conducts Mid Year Review Of Members’ Projects For 2016
The northern regional chapter of the Ghana WASH Alliance, a member of the International WASH Alliance, has convened a meeting to review the activities of its members in projects funded by partners through the alliance for the year 2016. The meeting which had members present how far they have gone with their planned activities for
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WUZDA Participates in Ghana WASH Alliance 2016 Project Implementation Review Meeting
Wuni Zaligu Development Association (WUZDA) has taken part in a review meeting on the activities of members of the Ghana WASH Alliance for 2016. WUZDA joined the Ghana WASH Alliance in 2010, which had a new formation, to broaden its horizon with regards to its operations in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector in the
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WUZDA, Northern Media, MHD – 2016 and the Path Ahead
The media fraternity in Ghana’s Northern Regional capital, Tamale, played a major role in WUZDA’s observation of the World Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD) which falls on 28th May, each year. The initiative of the Menstrual Hygiene Day brought about by German NGO WASH United, has not received the attention of world leaders according to some
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WUZDA Raises Critical Issues in Press Statement To Mark World Menstrual Hygiene Day – 2016
PRESS STATEMENT 27/5/2016 GLOBAL MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY – 2016 In 2014, a German – based NGO, WASH United saw the need to spearhead in a worldwide campaign to draw attention to why it is necessary to give focus to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls and women in general. Since then, every 28th May, is considered