Urban WASH for Communities in Cholera ‘Hotspot’ within Central Region, Ghana

A WASH preventive and preparedness approach will be taken to addressing cholera outbreaks in the endemic hotspots urban areas of Cape Coast Municipal areas. The project target to reach 35,000 direct beneficiaries at CHF 40 per beneficiary (CHF 1.4 M indicative budget) and 170,000 indirect beneficiaries with integrated water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services therefore reducing vulnerability to cholera of communities by 2020.
Internally, this project is within the framework of “One WASH” strategy 2024 aligned to the IFRC Cholera Framework for Africa. The project will contribute to meeting the SDG’s under the umbrella of the IFRC Global Water & Sanitation Initiative (GWSI) with a priority targeting of this cholera hotspot, thus contributing to the WASH and Health related SDG targets and indicators (both performance and impact indicators) in all aspects of project planning, reviews, and robust monitoring and evaluation in alignment with the WHO, Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) overall vision.

The proposed approach would also draw on lessons learnt and IFRC comparative advantages of our proven partnership and implementation capacities that have reached over 40 million people with WASH services over the last 15 years in both emergency response and developmental contexts by applying appropriate and effective implementation approaches including participatory hygiene, sanitation transformation (PHAST) Community Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA) and Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)