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The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved US$125 million from the International Development Association (IDA), as an additional funding for the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA SWP).
This additional financing will support Ghana’s effort to reach 550,000 people in low income urban communities of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) with improved sanitation and water supply services.
This was made known in a press statement issued by the World Bank, dated Tuesday, September 22, 2020.
“Providing equitable access to safe and improved water supply and sanitation services is essential to improve people’s lives particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this project, we are committed to provide better access to water and sanitation to the most vulnerable, therefore improving lives and reducing poverty,” Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Ghana
Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, has lauded the Urban Health Initiative’s commitment to achieve its goal of creating awareness and engaging stakeholders to improve air quality in the city.
He said the communities’ involvement in the programme had given hope of achieving positive results to improve air quality in Accra and reducing deaths and diseases associated with air pollution.
Mr Sowah said this at the opening of a two-day Urban Health Initiative Science-Policy dialogue series on the theme: “Saving lives by linking health, environment and sustainable development” to assess the progress of the initiative, which had been piloted in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area since 2018.
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Some economic analysts have supported the government’s decision not to impose a second lockdown on Accra and other major cities as part of measures to contain the resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic.
They maintained that the cost of a lockdown on the public purse and economic activities, when weighed against the fragile nature of the economy, would make the imposition of restrictions injurious.
They told the Daily Graphic in separate interviews yesterday that any imposition of restrictions similar to what happened between March 30 and April 20, last year carried the risk of collapsing the economy through a further slump in financial activities.
Mr. Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive has opened Urban Health Initiative (UHI) science-policy dialogue series to help promote quality air to save the lives of the citizenry.
The dialogue is on the theme: “Saving Lives by Linking Health, Environment and Sustainable Development.”
The Urban Health Initiative is a project led by the World Health Organisation in collaboration with international implementation partners such as the UN-Habitat and ICLEI with support from the Norway Government and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).
The local Ghanaian partners are the Ghana Health Service, Environmental Protection Agency, the Ghana Education Service, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Energy Commission, Academia, Civil Society Organisations and other Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.