About IHP
The Ghana Committee for UNESCO IHP was established in line with UNESCO guidelines and is the primary scientific and technical body to direct the implementation of the UNESCO IHP programme in Ghana. The Ghana Committee is accountable to the Ghana Commission for UNESCO.
The Ghana Committee was inaugurated on 12th October, 2021 by Hon. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, former Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources. The Water Resources Commission (WRC), which is the national institution responsible for the regulation and management of the country’s water resources, hosts the Ghana Committee and has assumed the role of focal point on all IHP platforms.
Membership
The Ghana Committee for UNESCO IHP is composed of fifteen members with diverse expertise nominated from relevant research, academia, water user and data management institutions, gender and water ministries, NGOS, and UNESCO agencies in Ghana. The tenure of the nominated member is for a term of three (3) years, not exceeding two (2) term period. The Executive Secretary of the WRC is the Chairperson of the Ghana Committee. A vice chairperson and secretary are elected from among the committee for a three-year term.
Composition of membership
- Water Resources Commission
- Volta River Authority
- Universities (University of Environment and Sustainable Development)
- Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources
- Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection
Composition of membership
- Hydrological Services Department
- Ghana Water Company Limited
- Ghana Meteorological Agency
- Ghana Irrigation Development Authority
- Ghana Commission for UNESCO
Composition of membership
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- CSIR/Water Research Institute (CSIR – WRI)
- CONIWAS
- Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA)
- Bui Power Authority (BPA)
- Adwoa Painstil
- Emmanuel Obuobie
- Suzzy Abaidoo
- Apollonius O.A Asare
- Jospeh Tawiah Ayer
- Philip Tetteh Padi
- Odura Donkor
- Samuel Owusu Ansah
- Jewel Kudjawu
- Sylvester Darko
- Ato Ankoh
- Margaret Macauley
- Michael Tuffour
- James Ashaley
- Mawutor Ablo
- WRC
- CSIR – WRI
- MSWR
- Ghana Commission for UNESCO
- CWSA
- VRA
- CONIWAS
- GMet
- EPA
- HSD
- BPA
- GWCL
- UESD
- GIDA
- MOGCSP
- Chairperson
- Vice-Chairperson
- Secretary
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