Accra, July 8, 2017: The Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources would hold its fifth annual National Basic Sanitation Stock Taking Forum (STF) series from Monday July 10-14, 2017 in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
The theme for this year’s event is: ‘Five years of Rural Sanitation Model and Strategy (RSMS) implementation in Ghana, learning for scaling up, now and beyond’.
In a press release, the Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate at the ministry, Tony Tsekpetse –Akuamoah said the objectives of forum among other things include to create a platform for all stakeholders in the Sanitation sub-sector in Ghana including the Political Leadership, Sector Institutions, Decentralised Structures, NGOs and Development Partners to discuss, review and assess progress on the RSMS and agree on a strategy for scaling up.
It will also afford the participants the opportunity to share best practices and lessons learnt in the implementation of the Rural Sanitation Model and Strategy by various organizations, the press release added.
It stressed: “The forum will focus on the following key thematic areas; Increasing access to sanitation through Urban Sanitation Programming, Faecal Sludge management and Rural Sanitation Programming; Monitoring and Evaluation; Sanitation Marketing; Sanitation Financing; Sanitation Technology; Coordination in basic sanitation implementation and Special events (CLTS clinic)”.
The National Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) STF series particularly seeks to create a platform for the Private sector, Academia/research Institutions, Development Partners, metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) and Central Government actors to deliberate on CLTS.
The scope for the fifth SFT has, however, been broadened to cover basic sanitation concerns in both rural and urban sanitation programmes
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