Organization: UN Children's Fund Country: Ghana Closing date: 13 Jun 2013 Background In recent years, many of the focus districts of the GoG –UNICEF WASH programme, especially in the 3 Northern regions have experienced alternate occurrences of droughts and flash flooding. Recent trends in the micro-climate in these areas, and in indeed, across the West African sub-region suggest that this state of affairs may become more regular, if not more severe. The poor sanitation conditions in major cities across the country have also led to frequent, almost annual cholera outbreaks, which have claimed more than 100 lives between January 2011 and April 2012. These unfortunate events, coupled with the existence of isolated security flash points, due to ethnic/ chieftaincy disputes, as well as...
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