Assemblies hold the key to cleaner air in Greater Accra – Clean Air Fund, Ghana
Metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies must lead the fight against air pollution, because that is where national laws and commitments are put into practice, the Clean Air Fund has said. The call came at the Clean Air Leadership Bootcamp for Chief Executives, Coordinating Directors and selected Presiding Members of the 29 assemblies in Greater Accra. The training, held on October 30 at the Heartland Hotel in Ada-Foah, aimed to equip local leaders to factor air quality into planning, waste management, transport and budgeting. Desmond Appiah, Country Lead for Ghana at the Clean Air Fund, said national policies on air pollution often stall at the local level. “That is where the rubber hits the road. That is where the real action happens,” he said. “Even when government makes national and international commitments, the implementation of those commitments are done at the assembly level.”