5,000 households and 60 schools in the Greater Accra region are to get toilet facilities at highly subsidized prices.
The initiative, under the ‘Greater Accra Sustainable Sanitation and Livelihoods Improvement Project, GASSLIP, will see beneficiaries pay 30 percent of the cost while the project takes up the remaining 70. These were announced at the inauguration of the steering committee to oversee the implementation of GASSLIP.
Speaking at the inauguration, the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah said the nine new assemblies in Greater Accra, which were initially excluded from the project will soon be rolled on as the African Development Bank
AfDB, has agreed to increase funding to cover them.
The Greater Accra Sustainable Sanitation and Livelihoods Improvement Project, GASSLIP, is a four and a half year intervention meant to support the president’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
Mainly funded by the African Development Bank, AFDB, the project seeks to provide thousands of toilet facilities, improve sewage systems in the capital, provide job opportunities for residents and enhance the capacity of sanitation service providers to better deliver and manage sanitation in Accra.
It is currently being implemented in 11 out of the 20 district Assemblies in Greater Accra.
The fifteen member GASSLIP steering committee chaired by the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Dapaah is to monitor the individual projects and ensure that resources are deployed into areas where they most needed.
According to Madam Cecilia Dapaah the remaining nine Assemblies will soon be rolled unto GASSLIP.
The GASSLIP Coordinator, Stephen Ackon,explained that more than 5,000 households and schools will be provided with toilet facilities and sewer lines at highly subsidized prices.
The fifteen member committee has representatives from the Ministries of Sanitation and Water Resources, Works and Housing, Monitoring and Evaluation, Local Government and Rural Development, Environment Science, Technology and Innovation, Lands Commission, Ghana Water Company Limited, some Assemblies and Civil Society Organisations.
