Ghana - Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project : Annex 1 Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly Environmental and Social Management Plan Stakeholder Consultation List (English)

The objective of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project is to increase access to improved sanitation and improved water supply in the GAMA, with emphasis on low-income communities and to strengthen management of environmental sanitation in the GAMA. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: provide personnel nose masks, hand sanitizers, clean water, liquid soap, sanitizers; ensure the personnel and teachers and students do not come too close on the site; as much as possible, ensure the construction workers refrain from close contact and touching of one another while on the field; construct gutters around the toilet blocks to carry excess run-off away from the facility into existing drains; where there are no existing drains, runoff should be channeled from the gutters into the natural vegetation where the adjoining spaces are not developed; where there is no natural vegetation beyond the toilet block, a buffer zone of green grass should be introduced to absorb run-off; provide education on the Health and Safety Management Plan for the workers; engage only experienced artisans for the construction works; ensure not to store construction materials and wastes on access ways on the school compound i.e. stone chippings, sand, roofing sheets, wood etc.; provide education to teachers, students on use of toilet facilities and transmission of COVID-19 disease; ensure there is flow of water in the hand washing basins; and provide liquid soap at the hand washing basin and hand cleaning tissue for use after using the toilet and also after cleaning the toilets