The webinar is currently available at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUnknjCYyls
Water Safety Planning: Participatory Approaches to Delivering Clean Water in Rural and Peri-Urban Ghana. Despite over 80 per cent improvement in water access in rural and small towns in Ghana, commitment to meeting the WHO water safety planning (WSP) requirements in rural and small towns have received unremarkable attention. Emphasise has been on the delivery of water supply infrastructure and management of water systems, whereas water quality management rarely receives the needed prominence in annual WASH budgets of metropolitan, municipal, and districts assemblies (MMDAs). Regional offices of Community Water and Sanitation Agency (responsible for rural and peri-urban water delivery) appear handicapped in fulfilling its role of providing such support to MMDAs. As a result, the challenge of managing water quality from point sources and at the household level in rural communities, could be a monumental hurdle to achieving SDGs 6.
Through a grant from SDGPP Innovative Challenge, TREND tested the feasibility of water safety planning in rural and peri-urban Ghana. Implemented through a participatory approach, TREND will share their innovative approach and how the project is contributing towards advancing SDG 6 in Ghana. Water quality management remains a major delivery challenge in most developing countries and the lessons from this webinar could be applicable in other countries. We invite water sector practitioners and NGOs, foundations, “waterpreneurs,” government agencies and all relevant
stakeholders to join us.