Tag:Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Water & Sanitation

WaterAid launches five-year strategy to improve water, sanitation services for 17m Nigerians

WaterAid Nigeria on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, formally launched a new five-year Country Programme Strategy, to improve access to basic water and sanitation services...

Michael Simire - May 24, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Botswana intends to join the Water Convention

Botswana has expressed interest in joining the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (the Water Convention). The government official...

Michael Simire - May 23, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Successful initiatives improve access to uncontaminated water in Nigeria

This year’s World Water Day focused on accelerating change to provide universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, a goal that the Nigerian government...

Michael Simire - May 22, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Govt inaugurates YouthWASH programme

The Federal Government has inaugurated a Youth Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (YouthWASH) programme strategy to mobilise youths at all levels to reposition and strengthen the...

Michael Simire - May 12, 2023

Climate Change

Increase actions that drive water as climate change adaptation tool – Stiell

The UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, is calling on States to increase international action and policy-making that places water at the forefront...

Michael Simire - April 12, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Govt intensifies efforts to make FCT open defecation-free

The Federal Government, through the Clean Nigeria Campaign (CNC) Secretariat, has stepped up efforts to make the FCT open defecation-free by 2025. Mrs Chizoma Opara,...

Michael Simire - April 6, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Govt inaugurates 40-man committee to develop National WASH Policy

The Minister of Environment, Mr Mohammed Abdullahi, on Monday, April 3, 2023, inaugurated a 40-man committee to lead the development of a National Water,...

Michael Simire - April 3, 2023

Water & Sanitation