On the 24th February 2021, the Director of NGO Affairs, Eric Massally, engages partners to spearhead the revitalization of the National WASH Coordination platform, in a meeting held at the Ministry’s conference hall, Tower Hill.
This meeting brought together International and National NGOs, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation including the Ministry of Water Resources to better coordinate government of Sierra Leone’s priority of providing water, improved sanitation, and hygiene promotion to schools, hospitals, PHUs, and communities where the risk of contamination are considered high.
In his opening remarks, the Director, the NGO Director highlighted the essence of the meeting in revitalising the national WASH Coordination platform, noting that as the Ministry responsible for all NGO operations it were their key mandate to strengthen coordination at all levels, including WASH activities.
Mr. Massally recalled the nation wide tour the Ministry undertook, few months ago, to establish the WASH coordination platforms at district level and to get the national platform strengthened and be inclusive. He said the rationale was to nurture the relationship between the national and district partners involved in WASH activities, ensuring that WASH activities were effective and efficient.
The Director of Environmental Health and Sanitation, MoHS, Dr. Alhaji Momodu Sesay said as WASH actors they were required to follow very serious and huge level of coordination to continue to remain vigilant and bracing themselves to ensure that WASH remains an effective means of preventing the spread of diseases, especially with the resurfacing of the Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea.
He said that he hoped the coordination meeting would be a demonstration of a beginning of better WASH intervention in the country.
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