ESPA staff, members undergo sanitation training
Twenty-two people made up of staff of the Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA) and selected personnel from member companies have benefited from a 15-day training programme with support from the government of the Netherlands.
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The training was aimed at building the capacity of staff of the ESPA secretariat and member companies to enable them to deal effectively with the rising challenges associated with waste management, particularly in the urban areas.
The Executive Secretary to the ESPA, Ms Ama Ofori Antwi, described the training as timely as it came on the heels of the secretariat's plans to improve on all aspects of its work, as well as help members build on their capacity to improve on service delivery.
Background
The ESPA secretariat secured funding from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) for capacity building for its staff and some selected member companies.
Training Partner
MDF Training and Consultancy, West Africa, took participants through the 15-day training in three modules.
The theme for the training programme was “Strengthening the capacities of staff of ESPA in information management and advocacy in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)”.
Mr Michael Nkrumah, facilitator for the first session of the programme, took ESPA staff and the other members through Information Systems and Fundraising. Other trainers from the Netherlands took participants through Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Advocacy and Policy Influencing.
During the second week of the training, Madam Marie Jose Niesten took participants through Monitoring and Evaluation at Akosombo in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region. The secretariat supported the training with a counterpart funding of 20 per cent, while the NFP provided the 80 per cent for the implementation of the training programme.
Participants
The companies from where the other participants were drawn are: Asadu Royal Waste, Rural Waste, Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Asibod, J Stanley Owusu, Alliance Waste, Jekora Ventures, Yafuru Waste, Waste Landfills and Dans Waste.