Sentences with phrase «open defecation»

"Open defecation" refers to the act of going to the bathroom outside in open spaces, like fields or streets, instead of using a toilet or a designated sanitary facility. Full definition
He also pledged government's readiness in reducing the high rate of open defecation in the region by bringing out policies that will enhance household sanitation in the region.
President John Mahama has said his government is committed to ending the practice of open defecation by 2021.
As yet, no district in Ghana has been certified as Open Defecation Free, which is the main measure under the sanitation indicator of the UNICEF District League Table.
More than 500,000 residents practice open defecation, and more than one million people discharge waste
In 1999, the government began a push to end open defecation in the country as a way to improve security for girls and reduce disease for everyone, but especially children.
«In my manifesto for the 2016 election, I have made a definite commitment to end open defecation by year 2021.
The CLTS model, which encourages communities to use local materials to construct latrines was adopted in 2015 and triggered the certification of 15 communities as open defecation free, with 42 more being certified in 2016.
A few weeks ago, it came to the fore that the KEEA Municipality was vigorously combating open defecation as a way of boosting the economy of the area.
Nearly 20 % of the world population — mainly in rural areas - still practise open defecation, resulting in 300 million tons of untreated human excreta polluting fresh water resources each year.
On sanitation, the DCE said the district has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with its partners to eradicate open defecation by November 2017.
385 out of 1,990 communities of the Upper East Region have been certified Open Defecation Free through the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) model.
(In India alone more than 600 million citizens don't have access to toilets or latrines, and open defecation leads to contaminated water and chronic — sometimes deadly — health issues, like diarrhea.)
Under the past 25 years in Ghana, improvement was so slow that if we maintain this rate, it will take Ghana 500 years to be free from open defecation.
The Carter Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Programme for Plateau and Nasarawa has called for an effective policy of prohibiting open defecation toward eradicating...
The Federal Government on Monday, declared Dass Local Government Area in Bauchi State Open Defecation Free (ODF).
The Upper East Region recorded the highest open defecation in Ghana with a percentage of 74.7 according to the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of 2014.
This was revealed in Bolgatanga at the commemoration of the 2016 World Toilet Day with the theme: «Stop open defecation, own a household toilet now».
The Upper East Regional Focal Person on Sanitation, Asayure Juventus outlined the efforts his outfit is making in educating residents on open defecation and its related consequences.
It said lack of sanitation, and particularly open defecation, which is high in Ghana, contributes to the incidence of diarrhoea and to the spread of intestinal parasites, which in turn contributes to malnutrition.
President of the YPI, Akosua Ntiriwaa Anti, who together with some members of the group officially handed over the toilet facility to the school, told Citi News the initiative was to help eliminate open defecation to improve health and hygiene among students.
The Effutu Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has put in place measures to attain Open Defecation Free status by March 2019.
Madam Emma - Joan Halm, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Officer of the United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF), has challenged the Upper West Region to work towards becoming the first Open Defecation Free (ODF) Region in Ghana.
He said the damming reports of the region having placed first conservatively in open defecation needs a radical approach to...
The alliance of WASH Advocacy, a coalition of non-governmental organisations and network focused on improved water delivery and sanitation, has petitioned the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to address open defecation and review its approach towards the attainment of the millennium development goals.
The need for clean water is apparent to almost everyone, she notes, but in many areas where open defecation is still the norm, the demand for sanitation is just not there yet.
In India, they appeal to people's disgust by confronting them with the fact that open defecation means people are tramping shit back into the village and, horrifyingly, eating it.
You get a prize if a village achieves 100 percent total sanitation for every family, because if you have even one family still doing open defecation it contaminates the village for the rest.
Reducing the disease burden by reducing open defecation is extremely challenging because, due to villagers» ideas about purity, pollution and caste, most people reject affordable latrines.
«In 1437,» he said, «he noticed that everyone was going for open defecation, so he said, «you have to build a toilet.»»
The methods differ but the truth they are based on does not: Open defecation becomes a community sin.
«Open defecation continues to be a big concern for the country as almost half of the population do it.
(A 2012 United Word Bank report revealed that 19 percent of Ghanaians practice open defecation)
«In my manifesto for the 2016 election, I have made a definite commitment to end open defecation by...
A resident of Sokode Gbogame, a suburb of Ho in the Volta Region where the University of Health and Allied Science is situated, has revealed on Onua FM's Yen Nsempa Wednesday, May 2 a disturbing situation of open defecation in the area.
The Komenda - Edina - Eguafo - Abrem (KEEA) Municipality in the Central Regional is vigorously combating open defecation as a way of boosting the economy of the area.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 600 million Indians practise open defecation — making up 60 % of the 1.1 billion people who do so worldwide.
The Newly Bolgatanga East District Assembly will benefit from Fifty (50) toilet facilities from the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to deal with the canker of open defecation in the area.
Faith leaders enjoy a trust that politicians don't, and this makes them a huge asset for changing behavior such as open defecation, a practice still done by more than half a billion people in India alone.
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the next NDC administration under his watch will work towards ending the age - old menace of open defecation by 2021.
So there they are trying «Total Sanitation,» where they're aiming to make areas open defecation free, rather than just construct toilets.
The procession leaves the camp and goes out past Kakuma's de facto welcome sign, a cartoon depiction of a toddler pooping on the ground, and words warning, «This is a no open defecation area.»
It will take Ghana 500 years to bring an end to «free ranging» or open defecation, UNICEF's Country Director of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, David Duncan, has said.
The Environmental Officer of the Municipality, Alex Kwame Damptey, noted that, open defecation, especially in and around Elmina, is largely due to the influx of fisher folks from different parts of the country as a result of the vast landing bay at Elmina.
In November 2017, the UNICEF District League Table report indicated that, only eight of Ghana's 216 districts had at least a one - third [33 percent] of their communities not engaged in open defecation.
Sanitation On sanitiation, the NPP constituency Chairman argued that «the oldest district in the Central Region can not boast of any toilet facility, since filth and open defecation has become the order of the day.»
The open defecation in the region is done in bushes, gutters, banks of water bodies, into polythene bags, behind people houses and available open places.
The Deputy Director of Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate at the Ministry of Local Government, Cosmas Kambozie said landlords should go the extra mile to have toilets in their houses to end open defecation.
Speaking at a ceremony to unveil the 2017 Upper East Regional Open Defecation Free League table in Bolgatnaga, Acting Regional Environmental Office Juventius Asayuure said, the region was on course to end open defecation by 2019.
A task - force set up to enforce sanitation by - laws in Komenda Edina Eguafo - Abrem (KEEA) has arrested five persons, including an Assembly Member for allegedly indulging in open defecation.
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