The
National Service Secretariat has deployed about 2,000 service personnel to
serve under the Urban Sanitation Module.
This
Module will see service personnel collecting data from households on sanitation
practices and other vital information.
This
data is expected to help government and its agencies, plan for the
developmental needs of the country
The programme is being rolled out with
the support of the National Waste Bin Distribution Programme (NAWABIN).
The objective is to help provide
waste management companies with the necessary data they need to distribute bins
to all households that are still without them.
It
also seeks to help strengthen Local Government planning, through the
mobilisation of data for efficient local development as well as the reduction
of revenue leakages within the waste management sub-sector.
Speaking
at this year’s launch of the Urban Sanitation Module, the Director of the
National Service Scheme Dr Michael Kpessa-Whyte indicated that besides
providing IT solutions support to the key players for the gathering of data for
the operation, the Environmental Sanitation Sector during its bin distribution
exercise will attach a device (RFT-ID) to monitor waste management procedures
as well as revenue collection.
He
also spoke about how the proper handling of sanitation in the country would
reduce governments spending on health citing the national sanitation launched
by government as a step in the right direction.
As
an institution that essentially deploys young people coming out of our tertiary
institutions, we thought that if the leaders of this country themselves are
setting such wonderful examples, it is important that we take proactive steps
to prevent the situation that sent them out from occurring,” he added
Some
of the service persons who spoke to citifmonline.com expressed delight at the
opportunity to serve the country via this module.
The
module is a joint collaboration among the Ministry of Local Government and
Rural Development (MLGRD), the National Waste Bin Distribution Programme
(NaWaBin), Melchia Investments Ghana Limited (MIGL) and the National Service
Scheme (NSS).
By: Citifmonline
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