The Ghana WASH Journalists Network (GWJN) has held a two- day training workshop for its members from across ten regions in Ghana.
The workshop was organized in partnership with the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Water and Sanitation Project (GAMA) to build the capacity of journalists into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) reporting in country.
The event held in the Ejisu Municipality in the Ashanti region was under the theme: Achieving Open Defecation- Free Ghana by 2030: The Role of The WASH Journalists.
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GWJN national leaders expressed optimism that the training will help equip members of the network (GWJN) in the beneficiary regions with knowledge on the current state of open defecation and its impact on the country’s safely managed water services delivery.
Organizers of the training program also indicated that the training would help journalists in their research and guide them to produce compelling WASH stories that reflect present water and sanitation service delivery challenges in the country.
The workshop forms part of the World Bank funded GAMA Water and Sanitation Project capacity building support to project stakeholders which the Ghana WASH Journalists Network (GWJN) is part.
GAMA expects the training to guide journalists in their daily WASH advocacy in their respective regions.
Mr. Ibrahim Musah, a WASH consultant urged journalists and network members to always take advantage of such training programs to learn more about the WASH sector to enable them track and report accurately on sector progress and lapses in the various MMDAs especially those under GAMA and the newly born Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) Projects.
