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Mr Wilberforce Laate, Deputy Executive Director of Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD), a NGO, has said water, sanitation and health delivery are the main challenges facing the society.

He said in Ghana, the situation has become prominent partly as a result of the neglect of the indigenous institutions that were responsible for ensuring that good hygiene and improved sanitation practices were adhered to by all.

Mr Laate said this when addressing a gathering of women at the opening session of a two-day workshop organized by CIKOD and sponsored by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) at Abesim near Sunyani.

The workshop attended by 40 traditional women from the Brong-Ahafo Region was to introduce the participants to the Eco-Sanitation Concept, brainstorm and reflect on their roles in ensuring good hygiene and sanitation practices in their communities.

It was also to help identify the challenges traditional women face in addressing sanitation and hygiene issues and develop an eco-sanitation programme to be implemented under their leadership.

The workshop was on the theme: ?Traditional Authorities and the Environment ? The role of Traditional Rulers in Environmental Sustainability?.

Mr Laate said that traditional women were responsible for mobilizing women for the community and ensuring that their surroundings were kept clean through the enforcement of taboos and other sanctions with the backing and support of their men.

He said the current industrial growth as a result of population expansion had brought a lot of pressure on natural resources which had affected the general sanitation practices in most rural communities.

Mr Laate said the capacity of queen mothers for mobilizing their communities, local resources and indigenous knowledge and wisdom for community-led initiatives was one of the options for addressing sanitation issues.

He said that supporting traditional women would address the appalling sanitation and environmental problems in the communities.

Mr Laate said the involvement of traditional women would ultimately promote sustainability of development interventions by ensuring that community members were at the centre driving their own hygiene and sanitation activities.

Mr Isaac Owusu ?Mensah, Programme Manager of KAS, expressed optimism that the workshop would build the capacities of traditional women leaders to provide effective and efficient leadership for the development of their people.

Source: GNA

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