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Nigeria needs to proactively address sanitation issues for it to be a key world economic player, United Nations Chilren Education Fund (UNICEF) has said, adding that a country’s sanitation level determines the survival rate of its children.
Read more in the Nigerian Tribune, 22nd October 2013
Winifred Ogbebo, who visited some communities in Jigawa state recently, writes on the efforts to end open defecation through strengthened sanitation and good hygiene practices, being championed by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) with funding from DFID.
A great infographic summarising some of the issues linked to the call for World Leaders to keep their promises on clean water and sanitation.
(Source: Online Masters in Public Health)
Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister John Kufuna says behaviour change is cardinal in the promotion of good sanitation and hygiene practices in communities. Mr Kufuna was speaking in Namwala at a National Celebration of Open Defecation Free (ODF) verified villages in Chief Mukobela’s area of the ila people of Namwala District. He said the Government realised that sanitation and hygiene played a big role in achieving public health, economic development and environmental protection for the people of Zambia.
Poor sanitation is a better predictor of child stunting than calorie consumption, new data shows. The authors of the study say, however, that both sanitation and calorie consumption contribute in different ways to health and well-being.
CLTS is helping to improve sanitation in the Northern regions of Ghana.
I enjoyed World Water Week. There were some good sessions, old friends and new people to meet, and a lot to learn. This year the theme was Water Cooperation: Building Partnerships. The bias to water was understandable but if anything stronger than usual – my rough count is that about one session in ten was on sanitation or WASH, but that was enough to keep you busy as sessions ran in parallel and much of the time there was something relevant to go to.
Recent data indicates that only 15 per cent of Ghanaians have access to improved sanitation. In a speech read for him by Mr Baba Jamal, the Deputy Minister, at the launch of the scaling up of the Community-Led Sanitation programme to the Eastern and Brong Ahafo regions at Suhum, Ghana’s Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Mr Oppong-Fosu said the government is committed to achieving the MDG target, which requires the country to halve the population without access to improved sanitation.
