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"WASH News"
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AMA2 weeks agoMEDIA ADVICE: Launch of the African Sanitation Policy Guidelines – African Council of Ministers on Water (amcow-aspglaunch.com)
Event organized by Council of African Ministers on WaterThursday, June 10, 2021, 15:00 HRS (GMT + 1)Check in here LAGOS, Nigeria, June 9, 2021 – / African Media Agency (AMA) / – The ASPG was developed in close consultation with African Union member states and industry stakeholders. Its aim is to guide African countries to improve or develop sanitation policies and implementation strategies to strengthen the enabling environment and improve sanitation governance across the continent and accelerate access to safe sanitation and hygiene services for all by 2030. The launch of ASPG is an opportunity to raise awareness among the broader stakeholders in member states and beyond, as well as to generate the necessary momentum for adoption. High-level participants, including heads of state, government officials, ministers, donors, the media, civil society organizations, WASH experts and relevant stakeholders are the target audience for the launch. Additionally, the launch will increase participants’.
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Environment2 weeks agoFloods affect 400,000 people in Somalia – UN
Flooding caused by recent torrential rains across Somalia has affected around 400,000 people in 14 districts since the end of April, the UN humanitarian agency said. Some 101,300 people among those affected have been displaced from their homes, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Friday. “Most of those affected are in the Middle Shabelle region where flooding in Jowhar district displaced 66,000 people from 27 villages, destroyed over 40,000 hectares of farmland, disrupted learning in 11 schools and damaged 82% of WASH infrastructure, ”OCHA said in its flood update, referring to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. In the town of BeledWeyne, flooding from ruptures in the river has displaced nearly 22,000 people and destroyed 1,235 hectares of farmland, OCHA said. He said humanitarian partners had stepped up assistance, reaching at least 82,000 affected people with life-saving assistance, including food, water.
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Environment3 weeks agoWaterAid Nigeria and Institute sign MoU on scaling up sanitation and hygiene interventions
By Tosin Kolade WaterAid Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Water Resources Institute (NWRI) Kaduna, in order to build the capacity of stakeholders to scale up sanitation and hygiene in the country. Speaking at the ceremony in Abuja, National Director of WaterAid, Ms. Evelyn Mere, said that a multisectoral approach was needed to address the knowledge and capacity gaps for improved sanitation in Nigeria. Mere noted that the partnership, through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, should provide technical assistance and capacity building to stimulate sector actors to achieve the longer-term goals of the National Action Plan. According to her, the country’s plan is to ensure universal access to sustainable and safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for all Nigerians by 2030, by institutionalizing the enabling environment required to support the effective and sustainable management of WASH in the country. services. “This engagement has.
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AMA3 weeks agoEND Fund and IHS Nigeria Partner to Address Neglected Endemic Diseases in Ekiti State, Nigeria
· The planned grant supports Nigeria’s strategic plan to effectively address neglected endemic diseases as public health concerns in the nation. ·The partnership also generates positive results for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the state of Ekiti. Mass administration of drugs in Nigeria. Photo Credit: The END Fund / Yagazie Emezi LAGOS, Nigeria, June 2, 2021 – / African Media Agency (AMA) / – The END Fund, a private philanthropic initiative dedicated exclusively to ending the five most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), today announced its partnership with IHS Nigeria, the leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure services, to address the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) prevalent in Ekiti State, in the southwestern part of Nigeria. The generous planned donation from IHS Nigeria will enable the END Fund to provide thousands of treatments to those most affected by onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and soil-borne helminthiasis; reduce suffering, disability and ill health.
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AMA3 weeks agoAfrica has a champion for sanitation and hygiene
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 1, 2021 – / African Media Agency (AMA) / – The Council of African Ministers of Water (AMCOW) has appointed HE Ms. Fatima Maada Bio, First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, African Champion in Sanitation and Hygiene. It was presented on May 26, 2021 at the State House, Sierra Leone, in the presence of the President of Sierra Leone, his entire cabinet and other development partners. In this new role, His Excellency will lead and support advocacy to improve policies and practices to accelerate access to sanitation and hygiene on the African continent. In his opening address, His Excellency Dr. Julius Maada Bio, the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone congratulated the First Lady on her appointment highlighting her work in empowering women. “Access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene, especially for women and girls, is essential for their well-being, domestic needs, reproductive and.
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General news3 weeks agoNGO calls for free distribution of sanitary napkins to schoolgirls
By Tosin Kolade Elsie Ozika, Executive Director of Toilet Kulture Initiative (TKI), urged all three levels of government to distribute sanitary napkins free of charge to schoolgirls to promote attendance and menstrual health and hygiene. Ozika made the roll call at an event to raise awareness and distribute sanitary products to schoolgirls at LEA Primary School, Shetuko, CTF Kuje Regional Council. The event was to commemorate Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021 in Abuja, with the theme “Action and investment in menstrual hygiene and health”. She said the day allowed the organization not only to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene issues, but also to demystify cultural issues and taboos surrounding menstruation. According to her, the choice of the Shetuko community was born from the need to take the campaign to the grassroots where awareness of menstrual hygiene is low. She said it was an effort to support a similar campaign that TKI.
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General news3 weeks agoFG launches sanitary napkin bank for emergencies
By Justina Auta The federal government, through the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, on Friday unveiled the sanitary napkin bank to meet the needs of women and girls during their monthly menstrual period in emergency situations. Minister Pauline Tallen said at the launch in Abuja that the program was part of the activities to mark Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021. The day, under the theme “We must step up our actions and investments in menstrual health and hygiene management (MHHM) now”, aims to make sanitary napkins available at all times for emergency use. “A Pad Bank is now established within the ministry and it will serve as a model for all public institutions, including ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), hotels, banks and even in supermarkets and open markets. . “It’s about allowing girls everywhere and everywhere to have access to towels in an emergency, when they suddenly experience their monthly flow which.
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Economy4 weeks agoNigeria obtains $ 700 million WASH credit from W / Bank
By Folasade Akpan The World Bank has approved a credit of $ 700 million for the Nigeria Urban and Rural Sustainable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Program (SURWASH). He made the announcement Thursday in a statement on his website in Washington DC. According to the statement, the credit will provide six million people with basic drinking water services and 1.4 million people with access to improved sanitation services. It would also provide improved water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to 2,000 schools and health care facilities and help 500 communities achieve open defecation free status. These would be implemented as part of the Federal Government’s National Action Plan (NAP) for the Revitalization of the Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector in Nigeria. “In 2019, around 60 million Nigerians lived without access to basic drinking water services, 80 million without access to improved sanitation facilities and 167 million without access to.
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Environment1 month agoKwara, Plateau top open defecation population – FG
By Tosin Kolade The Federal Government has identified Kwara and Plateau as the states with the highest population in open defecation. The Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation, Ministry of Water Resources, Mr Emmanuel Awe, disclosed this at the 2021 First Quarter Lunch Time Seminar for Media Executives in Abuja. He called for concerted efforts from all Nigerians to do more towards ending open defecation practice. Awe said the ministry has inaugurated 77,400 Youth volunteers to act as hygiene ambassadors towards scaling up sanitation and hygiene in the country. He said that the data was gotten from the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene National Outcome Routine Mapping Survey (WASH-NORM), launched in 2018 to fill the chronic gaps in monitoring and routine assessment of the status of the WASH services in Nigeria. According to him, Nigeria still ranks the highest country with the highest number of persons defecating openly, saying no fewer than N455.
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Africa2 months agoCoronavirus – Democratic Republic of Congo: New COVID-19 update in DRC – With data provided until Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Key figures in the DRC, with data reported until Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The DRC records 67 new cases of contamination by the coronavirus, COVID-19 including 23 in Kinshasa, 19 at Kongo Central, 19 in North Kivu, 5 in Haut-Katanga and 1 in Ituri (source: data from INRB laboratories and validated by the DRC’s Multisectoral Committee for the COVID-19 response). The tests were carried out on 242 samples received for biological analysis at the INRB. The total number of positive cases for the novel coronavirus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is 29 768 (29,767 confirmed cases and 1 probable case); Three (3) new deaths of confirmed cases have been reported in North Kivu. The total fatal cases in the DRC as of April 27, 2021 is 763 deaths. Lethality: 2.6% ; Grab (16) patients left cured, according to the update provided on April 27, 2021. The cumulative number.
- Africa3 months ago
RAIN impacts 6 million lives with access to clean water and sanitation
Water security is essential to building resilient communities and economic empowerment across Africa. As part of its week-long celebration of World Water Day (March 22), the Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) announced the completion of the Replenish the Africa Initiative (RAIN) the current objective is to improve access to drinking water for 6 million people. RAIN, launched in 2009, is TCCF’s flagship program for clean water in Africa that helps countries on the continent meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6) . The achievement of 6 million people today is the result of a collective effort of more than 300 international and local public, private and civil society partners. As part of the 2021 World Water Day celebrations, RAIN partners came together practically today for a roundtable to mark the achievement of the program and share best practices for program replication. “RAIN is a testament.
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General news3 months agoProviding Access to safe and clean water in Pulka, Borno state
“We have to be grateful that we now have water, but we don’t usually have enough water when we enter the dry and hot season,” says Adama. She was forced from her home by the violence that has spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. Adama now lives in a camp for displaced people in Pulka, a small garrison town located 115 km southwest of Maiduguri, the state capital. Adama is only one of around 37,039 displaced people trying to survive here. The dry, hot season in the part of western Africa known as the Sahel usually lasts from November until May. Not a single drop of rain touches the cracked earth for nearly seven months, while the Harmattan, a dry wind coming from Sahara, brings desert sand and hot air during the day and cold air at night. The temperature can go from 9 and 35 degrees Celsius in.
- Africa4 months ago
Yemen: IOM seeks funding to help five million people as situation in Ma’rib deteriorates
As the conflict in Yemen enters its seventh year, the crisis remains the world’s most serious and continues to put millions of lives at risk. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) today launched an appeal to assist more than five million people affected by the crisis in Yemen as part of the High-Level Virtual Conference for Pledges in Yemen. Yemen. With more than 10,500 people having recently fled areas of Ma’rib, where fighting has intensified in recent weeks, IOM will devote at least a third of the requested funds to life-saving assistance to displaced people, migrants and to local communities affected by the crisis. Ma’rib crisis. In a situation characterized by escalating conflict and displacement, a declining economy and the collapse of public institutions, the people of Yemen are expected to experience alarming levels of acute malnutrition and food insecurity throughout this period. year. Today, governments around the world will.
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AMA5 months agoWorld NTD Day: Africa says No to Neglected Tropical Diseases
On the second ever World NTD Day, spearheaded by policy and advocacy action tank Speak Up Africa, high-level stakeholders, private and civil society organizations, artists and the media united to say No to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). First launched in 2020, World NTD Day was introduced to mark the global fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases, a group of diseases that affect more than 1.5 billion people globally. Approximately one third of those live in Africa. To mark the occasion, the No to NTDs Civil Society Network coordinated iconic landmarks across Senegal, Niger, Guinea and Benin to shine orange and violet, the World NTD Day campaign colors, for the day to highlight the importance of all countries working together to fight NTDs. The Monument de la Renaissance in Senegal, the Place de la Concertation in Niger, the Monument du 22 Novembre in Guinea and the Etoile Rouge in Benin are among the many.
- Africa5 months ago
Responding to Cyclone Gati in Puntland: Immediate assistance needed for prevention of waterborne diseases
After Cyclone Gati struck Puntland State of Somalia on 22 November 2020, heavy rains and floods washed away homes, livestock, crops, and fishing boats. In its wake, the cyclone destroyed health facilities and safe sanitation systems in the area, leaving thousands of vulnerable people exposed without any shelter and livelihoods, as it hit districts in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, further affecting communities’ economic recovery. Twenty-nine-year-old Aamino Ahmed and her family were among the people who were forced to flee to internally displaced people (IDP) camps following the cyclone. Along with her husband and nine children, Aamino moved to the Isnino IDP camp in Bossaso, where they are currently struggling to have a means to earn a living and access to basic needs like food, water, sanitation and health care, which have been totally destroyed. Understanding urgent needs of afflicted populations By the end of December, the.
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Environment7 months agoPrivate sector’s role critical in ending open defecation–Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the role of the private sector in building a strong sanitation economy will drive the sustenance of the results being achieved under the Clean Nigeria Campaign. Osinbajo spoke on Thursday at a ceremony organised to mark the first anniversary of Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet Campaign with a view to ending open defecation. The vice president said that the initiative of the Organised Private Sector in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (OPS-WASH) tagged ‘Flush it’ aimed at promoting private sector-led innovative financial strategies in WASH was a welcome development. He said that, to effectively moblise the entire country towards ending open defecation, campaign ambassadors had been identified to support the national drive towards open defecation free status. “The success of the Clean Nigeria Campaign will contribute to some of the key priority areas of the government which include enhancing social inclusion and poverty reduction, expanding business.
- Environment7 months ago
UNICEF congratulates Jaba for emerging as first ODF LGA in Kaduna
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has congratulated the Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State for being the first Local Government Area (LGA) in the state to attain LG-wide Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. Dr Zakari Adam, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Kaduna, gave the commendation during the certification ceremony in Kwoi, the Headquarters of Jaba LGA. “I feel honored to be part of this event in the history of Kaduna state. “I heartily congratulate the state, the people of Jaba LGA, our Royal fathers, WASH colleagues and all who contributed to this great achievement,” he said Adam expressed optimism that the attainment of ODF status by Jaba LGA would open the gate for other LGAs to follow. He thanked the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the United Kingdom, for the funding support that contributed to the attainment of the ODF status in Jaba. This, according to.
- Environment7 months ago
WaterAid inaugurates water borehole in Enugu community
WaterAid Nigeria on Tuesday inaugurated a 245,000-litre capacity borehole for Umabor community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. Inaugurating the borehole, Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State commended WaterAid Nigeria for the project which he said would provide the community with potable water and improve its sanitation. “I also commend in a special way Coca-Cola Foundation and Rain Water Africa for financing the project that will improve people’s access to clean water,” he said. Ugwuanyi, who was represented by his Special Assistant on Water Resources, Mr Dubem Onyia Jr, urged residents of Umabor to make judicious use of the borehole and ensured its maintenance. Speaking, Ms Evelyn Mere, the Country Director, WaterAid Nigeria, said the water project was aimed at improving the lives of poor people through expansion of access to clean water as well as improving sanitation and hygiene. Mere said the project would also encourage state.
- Health7 months ago
Water Aid Nigeria donates hand washing stations to ENSUBEB
A Non-Profit Organisation, Water Aid Nigeria, says it has donated over 100 hand washing stations to the Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board, ENSUBEB. The State Program Lead of the organisation, Mr Tom Terkimbi, disclosed this in Enugu on Tuesday when he hosted members of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, (WASH) Media Network in Enugu. Terkimbi said that the donated hand washing stations were distributed to schools in the state to help students wash their hands, to curb further spread of the pandemic. According to him, the donation is part of the organisation’s contribution to complement the efforts of the government in combating the deadly virus. He urged the state house of assembly to pass the pending WASH Bill before it, to promote good sanitation and hygiene when implemented. Earlier, the State Coordinator of the WASH Media Network, Mrs. Elizabeth Achuagu, commended the organisation for sustaining the partnership with the.
- Environment7 months ago
FG declares Jaba LGA in Kaduna open defecation free
Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been certified Open Defecation Free (ODF) by the National Task Group on Sanitation. The council became the first to attain the status among the 23 local government areas of the state. The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, presented the ODF Certificate to the Deputy Governor, Kaduna State, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, in Kwoi, on Tuesday. Adamu, who was represented by the Deputy Director, Water Quality Surveillance in the ministry, Hajiya Rukaiya Bako, congratulated the LGA and Kaduna State for the feat. He said that the development was an indication of the progress in meeting the target of making Nigeria open defecation free by 2025. “The benefits of access to improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities, especially of living in an open defecation free environment, impacts on education, health, security and socio-economic wellbeing of the people. “In this regard, I wish.
