Ghana - A Business Approach for Improved Sanitation in Ghana – Organic Fertilisers and Energy as Drivers

The Organic Fertilizer and Energy Project aims to improve sanitation and waste management services in ASHMA to catalyse improved hygiene, health and quality of life for urban slum communities in Ghana through demonstrated and replicable business models for improved sanitation services and waste management. This intervention will facilitate the development of a business model with drivers leading to improved and better access to sanitation in un-sewered urban poor areas in Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA), with potential for leveraging resources from the private sector for further scaling up to other areas of the Greater Accra Region. The output of the project is an up-scaled faecal and solid waste treatment plant with a treatment capacity of 9,000 tons of waste per year. The project will set-up a production and sales organisation for bio-fertiliser (capacity 500 tons/per year) and electricity generated from biogas to be fed into the local grid (capacity 580,000 kWh/year). The Project will also undertake the rehabilitation of three (3) existing public toilet facilities and the construction of 1 new one while also setting up organic waste collection points. The execution of this project will be done over a period of 36 months.