Environmental sanitation unleashed: Effectiveness and challenges of the National Sanitation Day as a community sanitation participatory approach in Aboabo, Ghana

Abalo, Emmanuel Mawuli; Agyemang, Seth; Atio, Samuel; Ofosu-Bosompem, Derrick; Peprah, Prince; Ampomah-Sarpong, Rita

doi:10.1080/23311843.2017.1405888

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“…Besides this, Ghana's Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited contracted about 45,320 youths under the Youth in Sanitation module under the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to serve a dual purpose: as an employment avenue and also to rid the cities of filth. Huge sums of money are allocated to the management of MSW through the PPP besides other means of waste management practices such as the pay-asyou-dump policy in Ghana [35]. Although these partnerships have been in existence for long, the effective and viable means of waste management employed can be summarised as follows: generate, collect, and dispose of in landfill site (GCD).…”

Section: Waste-to-incomementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of course, these initiatives have not proven effective considering the mountain of filth in the gutters, streets, and even landfill sites which is eventually driven by wind into surrounding communities [16]. Instead of, perhaps, contributing to the socioeconomic development of Ghana, the myriad MSW within the towns and cities effectively contribute to the outbreak of sanitation-related diseases and a dispensation of money for waste management purposes [16,35].…”

Section: Waste-to-incomementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Solid wastes such as waste gypsum serve as important raw materials that are used as raw material substitutes in the clinker and the cement manufacturing process to provide significant savings in terms of natural resources. For example, about 38% replacement of limestone or 72% replacement of clay is from waste materials [34][35][36][37]. The precalciner stage can process approximately 20-40% of the raw material before the kiln calcination step and, consequently, increase the energy efficiency of the kiln operation.…”

Section: Waste-to-incomementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of the Triple Gains of Waste and the Way Forward for Ghana

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The postcolonial waste management practices in Ghana have consistently been identified with the discarding and disposal of waste in open dumps, wetlands, and landfills. These practices have only contributed to the glaring poor sanitation in the cities of Ghana. Insignificant quantity of the waste generated ends up in recycling and/or composting units for reuse. Given the current growth of Ghana’s population, coupled with the emerging industrialisation, the country’s overdependence on hydropower for energy and natural resources for production alone is dangerous. This paper provides a holistic review of the gains from solid waste. The paper reaffirms that, through appropriate technologies, waste possesses the intrinsic potential to generate renewable energy, resources, and income. In recommending, the main objective of waste management practices in Ghana should be about exploring the economic potentials of waste. Thus, waste disposal should be the last resort, and not the first option in waste management practices in Ghana.

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Section: Waste-to-incomementioning

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“…Fuller & Eisenberg [50] stated that understanding the role of herd protection from drinking water, sanitation, and hand hygiene (WASH) interventions can help inform coverage targets and strategies that indirectly protect those that are unable to be reached by WASH campaigns. Abalo et al [51] prominent people were invited to intermittently grace the National Sanitation Day (NSD) exercise, their invitations should be to empower the local people toesteem the importance of the programme by making it their own rather than depending on their presence to increase patronage.…”

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Reducing Escherichia Coli Contamination on Dringking Water Stations in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.

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“…Deforestation and forest degradation disrupt the structure, function and role performed by the forest ecosystem and future food production (Francis et al 2012). Both natural (Abalo et al 2017a;Steffen et al 2011;Lambin and Geist 2005) and anthropogenic factors (Abalo et al 2017a;Steffen et al 2011;Appiah et al 2009) contribute to the complex phenomenon of land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) in advanced and low-and-middleincome countries (LMICs). In recent years, pricing of natural resources has gained international recognition as an important economic principle capable of ensuring the sustainability of the forest ecosystem (Engel et al 2008;Pirard 2012).…”

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Arable and forest land user rent in a peri-urban district, Ghana

2019

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Land-use policies meant to mitigate deforestation activities in Ghana will have to consider the heterogeneity of the drivers of arable and forest land degradation. This would help avoid the one-size fits all approach to solving this problem. The urgency for this realisation is premised on the recent increasing monetary incentive to convert arable and forest land to other land uses in peri-urban Ghana. This study hypothesised that there is no significant relationship between land rent and the conversion probability from arable and forest land to other land uses such as commercial, industrial and residential land uses in Bosomtwe, a peri-urban district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Four-hundred and one usufruct or landowning households and individual landowners participated through a three-stage sampling procedure. The results indicated a significant relationship between higher land rent and conversion probability from arable land to other land uses such as commercial, industrial and residential land uses. Specifically, receiving land rent above GH¢400 (OR = 1.979) predicted the outcome variable in all three models. Moreover, being a female (OR = 0.612), ageing: 56 and 65 (OR = 2.158) and 76 and above (OR = 11.781), traders/food vendors (OR = 0.423) and widows (OR = 2.050) had some odds of predicting the outcome variable. The study recommends a reformation of government land use conversion policies and decisions in collaboration with landowners, to include parameters which assess the effect and benefits of land conversion decisions on biodiversity before leasing out land rights. Keywords Forest land tenure Á User rent Á Conversion Á Arable land Á Land uses Á Bosomtwe Á Ghana

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Environmental sanitation unleashed: Effectiveness and challenges of the National Sanitation Day as a community sanitation participatory approach in Aboabo, Ghana

Cited by 12 publications

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A Review of the Triple Gains of Waste and the Way Forward for Ghana

A Review of the Triple Gains of Waste and the Way Forward for Ghana

Reducing Escherichia Coli Contamination on Dringking Water Stations in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.

Arable and forest land user rent in a peri-urban district, Ghana

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