The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has released a report on the performance of the various waste management companies operating in the metropolis for the third quarter of 2018 based on their service zones within six sub metros. The report evaluates the performance of six (6) contractors namely J. Stanley Owusu and...
By: Martha A. Annan, Innovations Manager. Email: m.annan@jekoraventures.com Present-day trends are mindful of ways of sustainable waste management through segregation, reuse and/or recycling of waste. One critical step in achieving this is through a “waste audit”. A “waste audit” is simply an assessment tool that is...
The rate at which public litter bins placed at vantage points in the capital are being stolen is thwarting efforts by public-spirited individuals, civil society groups and city authorities to make Accra clean. 11 Litter Bins Stolen Out of 40 public litter bins placed at vantage points...
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr. Mohammed Adjei Sowah, has reiterated the need for Africans to promote city to city relations to encourage bilateral relations. According to him African countries can learn better from each other than from the already...
About 35 delegates from seventeen (17) Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) visited the JVL Fortifer Compost Plant at Borteyman on Thursday, the 26th of July, 2018. The learning tour was part of an on-going Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh) Learning and Practice Convening (LPC)...
A ceremony was held on July 3, 2018 at the JVL Fortifer Compost plant premises to inaugurate a seven (7)-member Board of Directors for the plant. The board constituted of a representative each from Jekora Ventures Limited (JVL) [the plant operator], Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) [co-owners...
Government is to implement a ‘zero landfill policy’ as part of measures to recycle and convert the country’s waste into other bye products. Ghana is faced with the issue of proper disposal of waste as people dispose their waste indiscriminately while major landfills such as Kpone...
It was a privilege to welcome Dr. Claudia Sadoff, the new International Water Management Institute’s (IWMI) Director General (DG), at our JVL Fortifer Compost Plant at Borteyman. Dr. Sadoff was accompanied by Dr. Olufunke Cofie (The West African Head, IWMI) and Mr. Eric Nartey (Researcher, IWMI)....
In the city of Blantyre, Malawi saw the convening of cities/countries from the 4th – 6th of December, 2017 that have benefited from joint grants from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Department for International Development (DfID) in fecal sludge management (FSM) in cities. The...
Kindly find below the presentations of the 6th West African Clean Energy & Environment Exhibition & Conference (WACEE 2017) dubbed: “Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies in the Context of Sustainable Development: Future Challenges and Directions”. The WACEE 2017 conferences were made possible by the following...