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EDITORIAL BOARD
� LAMISI DABIRE
� ABU WUMBE
� FREDERICK ASIAMAH
� EDMUND SMITH
ASANTE
� EMELIA ENNIN
� IDA COLEMAN
PHOTOS by
� ROLAND BAIDEN
� VICTOR OTUM
NARTEH
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From Emelia Ennin Abbey, Daily Guide
Patrick Apoya, Executive Director of Skyfox Ltd and a consultant in the water
sector, is advocating the creation of a national water fund to support the
maintenance of water services facilities in the country. He said funding is a critical
component of the national water policy but the erratic financing nature of the
sector makes it essential to set up a fund.
“We have to be innovative and not put the burden on government” he said while
suggesting that sources of funding for the fund should be from monthly
contributions from the income of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency,
CWSA, and the Ghana Water Company Limited, (GWCL). Mr Apoya raised the
issues in an interview after he had spoken on sustainable financing at the ongoing
Mole XXIII Conference in Tamale.
He suggested that the non state funding initiative should start with a 10 per cent
and 20 per cent from the revenue each month from the GWCL and the community
water and sanitation management teams (WSMTs) respectfully. Additionally, he
proposed that government should consider allocating some money from the
Annual Budget Fund Amount which is a proportion of the nation’s oil revenue
committed to sectors to the proposed water fund.
He was optimistic that the national water fund would address the issue of lack of
secured funding for the sector which has resulted in the failure of many water
service systems especially in the rural communities.
This is necessary, as though rural water coverage has been increasing steadily over
the years, there have been concerns over the high levels of non-functional water
point systems fitted with handpumps.
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E
� Create a Water
Fund- Patrick
Apoya
� EHSD Attributes
CLTS slow move
In Ghana To
Inadequate
Coordination
� Spirits still high @
MOLE XXIII
� MOLE participants
trained on Life
Cycle Cost
Approach
Newsletter Date
Volume 4 Issue 2
www.moleconference.org
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DAILY UPDATE
August 24, 2012
Create a Water Fund- Patrick Apoya
Mr Patrick Apoya Executive
Director of Skyfox Ltd
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A Programme Officer at the Environmental Health
Sanitation Division of the Ministry of Local
Government and Rural Development (EHSD-
MLGRD), Mr. Kweku Quansah, has attributed the
seemingly slow move of the Community Lead Total
Sanitation (CLTS) Approach in Ghana to inadequate
coordination in the sanitation sub-sector.
According to Mr Quansah, the reason for sanitation
lagging behind water in the Millennium
Development Goal targets is because the water sub
sector seems to have attained a high level of
coordination. He stated for instance that because of
compliance to laid down procedures regarding the
strategy of operation, an organization or group of
people cannot construct a borehole at any location
of their choice. They seek and obtain the necessary
approval unlike in the sanitation sub sector, which is
not well coordinated.
He cited the Zubzugu-Tatale example of a group of
people constructing a toilet facility without the
knowledge and approval of the District Assembly of
that area.
He entreated District Assemblies to work harder to
prevent the uncoordinated manner of
implementing strategies as it hinders their
mandate and impedes the progress of their work.
This way, he said, any organization or group that
visits any community in their district will do proper
consultation before implementation. He advised all
stakeholders to support the implementation of the
sanitation strategy in order to improve
environmental sanitation practices and to move
sanitation up the ladder, and also improve the
harmonization and coordination that the sub-
sector seeks to achieve.
Mr. Quansah made these submissions during a
session on “financing options for latrine: credit for
sanitation ,community level financing for
sanitation/CLTS Models hybrid in sanitation
financing” at the Mole XXIII Conference currently
ongoing in Tamale.
Ida Coleman
RCN Ghana.
EHSD Attributes CLTS slow move in Ghana To Inadequate Coordination
Mr Kweku Quansah of the EHSD
“Bahaviour Change is critical to increasing
the sanitation coverage in Ghana” - Kweku
Quansah
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As yesterday came to a close, it was glaring that one
of the unique features of Mole XXIII has been the
high level of participation.
This is not necessarily about the numbers but the
quality and level of engagement.
Participants have not been daunted even though
several hours of power outage threatened to disrupt
the sessions.
To cap it all, about thirty-five participants stayed in
the Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training session
for almost two extra hours last night.
The same number or more are expected to stay
behind this evening as the conference winds up.
Free is not always workable !
Spirits still high @ MOLE XXIII
Day two at Mole XXIII was basically a day of comparison
in the sense that various presenters and discussants
explored practical options for providing sustainable
water, sanitation and hygiene(WASH) services .
The conclusion was that it is costly to rely on
government and donor support for financing the
maintenance of WASH infrastructure even though these
are often free sources of support.
Therefore, depending on the type of scheme, tariff
systems, insurance and pooling of funds could prove
more effective ways of sustaining WASH systems or
facilities.
Even though views differed on how particularly to carry
forward some of the experiences, there was consensus
that community level water schemes risked being
failure if they continue to rely solely on government and
donor transfers to meet their maintenance costs.
“The dependence on funds from government and
donors for CapManEx [Capital Maintenance
Expenditure] is often ad hoc and has serious adverse
consequence for service delivery,” said Dr Kwabena
Nyarko of KNUST and the WASH Cost Project
Agreeing, Mr Patrick Apoya of SkyFox Ltd argued
for the setting up of a “Compulsory two-tier
investment policy for Community Water
Management Teams.”
This he said should involve a compulsory
contribution to a pooled fund and another
compulsory contribution to a private financial
firm of a community‘s own choice.
Dr Kwabena Nyarko, Director of
WASHCost
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The Mole Conference is being covered on social media via facebook, twitter and has been mentioned on
google + and the GreenGhanaian blog. On facebook, the conference information was shared by Akua Akyaa
Nkrumah, Ato Ulzen-Appiah and Kofi Yeboah, all Ghanaian bloggers. On twitter, updates were posted via
Simon Peter (@sekumaj), Green Ghanaian (@GreenGhanaian), Lamisi Dabire (@lamisi_d) and Barcamp
Tamale (@barcampTamale). On Google + it was shared via Ato Ulzen-Appiah, Barcamp Tamale and Akua
Akyaa Nkrumah. All of these postings are to circulate the conference and issues that were being covered in
order to spread the information to wider audiences and increase interest and awareness on WASH issues.
www.sekumapter.wordpress.com ; www.moleconference.org ; http://www.slideshare.net/coniwas/
MOLE participants trained on Life Cycle Cost
Approach A training session on the Life Cycle Cost Approach to
water and sanitation costing has started as part of the
MOLE XXIII Conference . The training session attracted
over 30 participants from government agencies, NGOs,
community leaders among others. The main objectives of
the training is to help participants apply the LCCA in
planning and implementation of their organisation’s
water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities and
enable participants to support stakeholders in the use of
LCCA.
The training covered the methodologies for the life-Cycle
Costs Approach (LCCA). The first part of the training took
place on Thursday August 23, 2012 and will be concluded
on August 24,2012.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology (KNUST) and Sanitation Centre and CONIWAS
are collaborating with IRC International Water and
Sanitation Centre to organise the training.
MOLE XXIII social media presence