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  • Aloysius Adjetey appointed as CEO of Community Water and Sanitation Agency

    Aloysius Adjetey appointed as CEO of Community Water and Sanitation Agency

    President Akufo-Addo has named Aloysius Adjetey as the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA). The presidential appointment signals a significant development in the administration’s commitment to addressing water and sanitation challenges across the nation.

    The announcement of the appointment was communicated via a letter signed by Nana Asante Bediatuo Asante, who serves as the Executive Secretary to the President.

    This appointment is in line with section 12 (1) of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency Act, 1998 (Act 564).

    Aloysius Adjetey will take over from Ing. Dr Worlanyo Kwadjo Siabi, who has served the agency till date.

    Profile of Aloysius Adjetey

    Aloysius Adjetey is a distinguished development expert with an impressive career spanning over 12 years. He is an alumnus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Development Policy Planning. Furthering his expertise, Mr. Adjetey completed his Masters in Development Studies, majoring in Policy Analysis and Poverty Studies, from the prestigious Erasmus University of Rotterdam, formerly known as the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

    Adjetey’s career is marked by significant contributions in various fields. He has extensive experience in governance and the economy of Ghana, with a special focus on Public Financial Management. His areas of expertise include economic policy analysis, project management, economic research, financial planning and management, financial programming, poverty reduction, and economic development.

    Before this appointment, Adjetey held several key positions. From 2014 to 2017, he served as a Project Management Specialist and Economist at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He was a Policy Analyst at the National Development Planning Commission between 2012 and 2013 and a Local Governance Expert at KfW Entwicklungsbank from 2011 to 2013. Earlier, he was an Economic Planning Officer at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning from 2003 to 2009.

    Aloysius Adjetey’s academic journey includes obtaining his Master’s degree in Development Studies, focusing on Poverty Studies and Policy Analysis, from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University of Rotterdam between 2008 and 2010. He completed his undergraduate studies with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Development Planning from KNUST between 1999 and 2003.

  • Krachi East marks Global Handwashing Day at Tamanja

    The Environmental Health and Sanitation Office of the Krachi East Assembly of the Oti Region has marked this year’s Global Hand Washing Day with residents of Tamanja in the Municipality.

    The programme, organised in collaboration with Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), was to increase awareness of the importance of hand washing with soap under running water.

    The United Nations set aside October 15, annually, to observe the Day as part of efforts to attain clean hand washing as a daily habit.

    This year’s theme: “Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene,” calls on society to work together to scale up the vision for universal access and practice of hand hygiene.

    Mr Richard Kofi Hadzi, the Municipal Director, CWSA, said the consumption of unsafe drinking water and inadequate sanitary conditions contributed to diseases and increased the rate of typhoid fever in the communities.

    He, therefore, urged the community members to boil their water before drinking to prevent typhoid fever and diarrhoea.

    Madam Sybil Marie Boison, the Oti Regional Environmental Health Officer, urged the residents to continue to observe good hygiene and sanitation, including regular hand washing.

    She said frequent hand washing was one of the key protocols prescribed by experts in the fight against typhoid fever.

    She again said good hygiene promotes good health and asked the citizens to wash their hands with soap after using the toilet and before handling food.

    Madam Boison encouraged all and sundry to make washing hands with soap under running water a regular habit, given the significant part, it played in preventing diseases.

    Obor Tamanja Uje, the Traditional Overlord of the area, expressed appreciation to the environmental health officers and the CWSA for the sensitisation on the health benefits of handwashing.

    Source: GNA