{"id":207776,"date":"2025-09-21T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mps-advocate-regular-funding-for-waste-management\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:04:59","slug":"ghana-mps-advocate-regular-funding-for-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mps-advocate-regular-funding-for-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: MPs Advocate Regular Funding for Waste Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Parliamentary Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources has strongly advocated a dedicated funding source to tackle the country&#8217;s persistent sanitation challenges, ensuring reliable payments to private sector service providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Committee&#8217;s Chairman, Mr John Kwabena Oti Bless, emphasised that a permanent funding mechanism was essential because &#8220;waste generation is a daily problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He added that with a dedicated funding source, the government would be able to pay service providers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources has strongly advocated a dedicated funding source to tackle the country&#8217;s persistent sanitation challenges, ensuring reliable payments to private sector service providers. The Committee&#8217;s Chairman, Mr John Kwabena Oti Bless, emphasised that a permanent funding mechanism was essential because &#8220;waste generation is a daily problem.&#8221; He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[9521,258,256,6141,4508,4509,7272,7260,257,14972,254,11569],"class_list":["post-207776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-advocate","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-funding","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-management","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-regular","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waste"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}