Stakeholders hail 2021 Population and Housing Census Data on WASH

Stakeholders hail 2021 Population and Housing Census Data on WASH

With less than 10 years to the sustainable development goals agenda, the need to generate and promote the use of credible home-grown WASH data remains on the minds of the water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector stakeholders. This became known at the end of the Regional Learning Alliance Platform (RLLAP) on 28th July 2022 in Kumasi.

Over 120 participants of the RLLAP drawn from local assemblies, government institutions and civil society bodies agreed on the need to harmonise WASH data and to establish a joint working group of Ghana Statistical Service and sanitation stakeholders to promote the generation of WASH evidence-based data for use. Participants also agreed on the need to support the Ministry to develop hygiene indicators to aid the Ghana Statistical Service to collect comprehensive home-grown hygiene data. Read more