WaterAid Ghana and Mastercard Foundation, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic is implementing, Safety of Markets and Pre-empting Stigmatization of Covid-19 Survivors: An Integrated Hygiene Behaviour Change Campaign Project in the Greater Accra, Northern and Eastern Regions of Ghana. The project is part of the Mastercard Foundation’s Covid-19 Recovery and Response Programme in Ghana with assistance from WaterAid. The project is to strengthen institutions and communities so that, they can respond to both the short and long term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pronet Association, being one of the leading WASH implementers in Ghana is partnering WaterAid and the Kpone Katamanso Municipal Assembly to implement the project in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality. The six months project will be implemented between 0ctober 2020 and March 2021.

The Project Target Group includes Market traders and patrons, Lorry station unions and travelers, Community groups and people living with disabilities, Youth groups and children, Covid-19 survivors. Some specific locations the project team have identified within the municipality to carry out project activities like hygiene education linked to COVID-19 protocol include Kpone Market, Kpone GPRTU Station, Kpone Timber Market, Katamanso Timber Market, Atadeka Katamanso Station, Zenu Market, Oyibi Station and Tulakpu Market. Further there will be hygiene behaviour change radio programmes and stigmatisation of COVID -19 survivors to further consolidate the knowledge levels of residents in the municipality.