USAID-Enhancing WASH Activity
The Enhancing WASH (En-WASH) Activity aims to facilitate access to and use of sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services as well as financing and governance in Northern Ghana. Employing a systems strengthening approach, successful implementation of E-WASH through September 2026, will result in:
- The Government of Ghana, through the Metropolitan/Municipal/District Assemblies (MMDAs), efficiently and effectively planning, budgeting, implementing, and monitoring water and sanitation services;
- The Government of Ghana, through MMDAs and other actors, improving the enabling environment for private sector participation in the WASH sector;
- Citizens adopting and sustaining improved WASH practices; and
- WASH service providers adopting improved management, operational and finance model products in target districts
Enhancing WASH anticipates 300,000 people will gain access to a basic sanitation service and 250,000 people will gain access to basic drinking water services.
In addition, E-WASH will support MMDAs to enable 70 percent of target communities to be certified as Open Defecation Free (ODF) and 60 percent of households to adopt and sustain improved WASH practices, including the transformation of gender roles and norms.