The World Bank has approved a funding of $125 million for Ghana aimed at enhancing the capacity of environmental officers. This allocation is intended to empower these officers in the prosecution of sanitation-related offenses within the judicial system, under the purview of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources.

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This funding initiative follows a prior disbursement of $150 million by the World Bank in 2015, which was directed towards piloting the project in the Greater and Ashanti Regions of Ghana over a five-year period.

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During a two-day workshop held in Wa and attended by 40 environmental officers selected from the Upper East and Upper West regions, Charlotte Akwaah Adjei Marfo, the Programme Manager of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, emphasized that the enforcement of sanitation laws would significantly contribute to the improvement of sanitation conditions in the country and help mitigate flood disasters.

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“The workshop for environmental officers drawn from the Upper West and East Regions marked the take-off of the second phase of the project scheduled to end in 2024.“Some of the topics discussed at the workshop were the jurisdiction of the courts, the code of ethics for the environmental health prosecutors, summary trial of cases, and drafting of summons and charge sheets among others,” the report

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said.

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