Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Pay for sanitation services promptly -MMDAs told

By Edmund Smith-Asante
Mr Benjamin Arthur, Executive Secretary, CONIWAS
 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies have been urged to promptly pay for services they receive in connection with sanitation and for which they are obliged by law to do.


World leaders, business executives to meet on climate change



By Edmund Smith-Asante

More than 120 world leaders, business owners, city mayors and civil service organisations (CSOs) are expected to converge in New York, USA, on September 23, for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit on the theme, “Catalysing Action”.


Monday, August 25, 2014

Ghana needs a mining policy


By Edmund Smith-Asante
Which way are we going as a country, Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng seems to be asking at the workshop
Although Ghana is the ninth largest exporter of gold in the world and the second largest in Africa, the country is not earning what is due it because it has no mining policy, the Associate Executive Director of Wacam, a civil society organisation (CSO), Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, has said.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Sack Oko Vanderpuije for incompetence – Leadership expert



By Edmund Smith-Asante
A Leadership Consultant, Rt Rev. Samuel N. Mensah, has called for the dismissal of the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, from office for incompetence.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Tracking of water, sanitation funds stalled by scanty, unavailable data



By Edmund Smith-Asante
Mr Harold Esseku addressing the meeting

A pilot project started to track funding for the water and sanitation (WASH) sector of the country has been stalled by scanty and unavailable data from institutions that receive and utilise such funds.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Govt adopts 100-day contingency plan to fight cholera

By Edmund Smith-Asante


A 100-day contingency plan has been put in place by the government to fight the outbreak of cholera in the country.

The Chairman of the National WASH in Emergencies (WinE) Technical Working Group, Mr Kweku Quansah, who made this known in Accra yesterday, said GH¢213,000 had been set aside for activities to deal with the epidemic across the country.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Scientists push for GMO adoption in Ghana

By Edmund Smith-Asante


Participants at the GAAS forum, with inset, Dr Ibrahim Atokple addressing them.
Two Ghanaian research scientists made a case for Ghana to adopt genetic engineering (GE) or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) instead of sticking to the conventional method of breeding.

While agreeing that conventional plant breeding had been going on for hundreds of years and had dramatically increased the productivity and quality of plants for food, feed and fibre, they maintained that it could no longer be sustained.


Forestry sector needs consolidation of its laws — Forest watch



By Edmund Smith-Asante, DODOWA
Mr Samuel Mawutor
Ghana's Wildlife and Forestry sector is currently governed by 27 different laws which makes for uneasy referencing, the Co-ordinator of Forest Watch, a coalition of non-governmental organisations working to improve forest governance, Mr Samuel Mawutor, has stated.

GJA 2010 Award Winners

GJA 2010 Award Winners
Dzifa, Emelia and Gertrude

GJA 2011 Award Winners

GJA 2011 Award Winners
GWJN's 2011 GJA Award-Winning Team

New WASH-JN Executives

New WASH-JN Executives
They are from left - Edmund, Ghana, Aminata: Guinea, Alain: Benin, Paule: Senegal and Ousman: Niger

Celebrating Award

Celebrating Award
The benefits of Award Winning!

Hard Work Pays!

Hard Work Pays!
In a pose with my plaque