National Sanitation Day is a voluntary community cleanup observance held on the first Saturday of every month across Ghana, declared by the Government of Ghana on 1 November 2014 in response to that year's cholera outbreak and overseen by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. The observance is designed to reduce the unsanitary conditions that breed disease and cause injury, drawing on coordinated community-wide participation in waste management and cleanup activities across the country. A bill was sent to Ghana's parliament that would have allowed prosecution of individuals who refused to participate, representing Ghana's institutional response to public health challenges through regular, coordinated community action on sanitation.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyMinistry of Local Government and Rural Development 1 Target Population Health GoalReduce unsanitary conditions that breed diseases and cause injuries 1 Geographic Scope Program status (class) Classification
Program KindSanitation or Water Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. National Sanitation Day (Ghana), Wikipedia
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First declared on November 1, 2014, by the Government of Ghana
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an initiative by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
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residents in Ghana
Introduction, paragraph 1, sentence 2, purpose clause
in an effort to reduce unsanitary conditions that breed diseases and causes injuries
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is earmarked National Sanitation Day across Ghana
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The National Sanitation Day (NSD)
- Wikipedia 'National Sanitation Day (Ghana)': present-tense description of the monthly observance; checked 2026-09-27.
Program classification, entity description sentence
National Sanitation Day is a voluntary community cleanup observance held on the first Saturday of every month across Ghana, declared by the Government of Ghana on 1 November 2014 in response to that year's cholera outbreak and overseen by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
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