Theresa Amerley Tagoe
Ghanaian politician
Theresa Amerley Tagoe (born on December 13, 1943[1] – November 25, 2010) also known as Iron Lady was a Ghanaian female politician and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party and a former Member of Parliament of the Ablekuma South Constituency.
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edit- Me? I don’t discriminate based on partisan basis
- I have always been calling the new assembly member to my place and also invited him to a party but he didn’t show up
- while living with her uncle, she was very tough. "I easily engaged in fights,"
- there has been drastic reduction in the number of women in politics, especially in contesting both the parliamentary and district assembly elections.
- the project was meant to strengthen communities’ ability to deal with their own water and sanitation problems.
This included engaging communities in the initiation, implementation and management of their own water and sanitation infrastructure.
- improving access to potable water and sanitation was critical to achieving favourable health outcomes, which in turn facilitated economic growth and sustained poverty reduction.
- government, as part of its strategy to accelerate the provision of water to urban settlements, was working at improving the distribution of networks to low income consumers, assess the lifeline tariff for poor urban households, provide standpipes for the poor and to some extent engage the communities in the operation and management of facilities installed within their locality through the involvement of water-user groups.
- the installation of water supply and sanitation system to be owned and managed by the community or households meant that beneficiaries would have the opportunity to optimize hygiene practice through having access to increased water supply and improved sanitation.