Managing Water for African Cities Accra City Implementation Plan Environmental Component Appraisal Report

Abstract

This is an appraisal of the environmental component of the Accra City Implementation Plan under the Habitat guided programme "Managing Water for African Cities". The objective of this appraisal was to ensure the conformity of the plan with the objectives of the Regional Project and Ghana's needs and to explore the availability of domestic resources (human, institutional, and financial) required for efficient project implementation. The appraisal provides input for the revision of the City Plan document using the LFA method. This is a community based sanitation and wastewater management project to demonstrate results on the ground in the selected urban communities. The City Plan interventions will be carried out under the Densu river basin integrated management plan. It is proposed that the City Plan should take a step-wise and action oriented approach driven by the demands of the demonstration communities. An immediate action will be to vitalise the environmental task team and formalise the appointment of the task leader who will be the main driving force in the City Plan implementation process.