Statement

Sanitation as National Infrastructure

2026-08-01

The sanitation conditions being exposed along parts of Ghana's coastline should trouble us, but they should not cause us to condemn our people. They should cause us to build better systems.

Harrison Mensah Adiko has published a national policy paper on sanitation — Sanitation as National Infrastructure — setting out a framework for human dignity, public health, environmental stewardship, employment and national prosperity. The paper argues that sanitation is national infrastructure: it protects health, food, water, the environment, tourism, commerce, and human dignity, and can create businesses, industries and thousands of productive jobs when properly developed. The full policy framework — covering household standards, public infrastructure, coastal protection, jobs and enterprise, technology, district accountability, environmental health, education, enforcement, financing and success measures — is published on the Policies page.