Early Warning Systems of Disaster in Ghana
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Non Profit
International Engineering and Royal HaskoningDHV Enter into Agreementwith UNDP to Build Climate Resilience through Early Warning
The latest state-of-the-art technology will be deployed to forecast climate hazard events which will allow increased time for the Authorities to take action thus saving lives and reducing the social and economic damage caused by floods and droughts.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Ghana are threatened by natural disasters every year. In 2010 for example, heavy rainstorms caused floods which killed dozens of people, made more than 700,000 people homeless and caused direct damages worth millions of dollars.
Floods and Droughts
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is initiating this early warning project to reduce the country's vulnerability to extreme climate events. Mr Rene da Silva, UNDP's Deputy Country Director in Ghana said: "We are supporting the Government of Ghana to become a climate resilient nation and to reduce human losses and damages caused by floods and droughts."
The project covers the metropolitan districts of Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast, the city of Techiman and 5 other districts - altogether home to millions of people.
Early Warning Wystems
The Royal HaskoningDHV-led team will work with the Community Resilience through Early Warning (CREW) Project Management Unit in Ghana to assess the disaster risks on the national scale and for the selected cities and districts.
The consortium will assess both the current situation as well as future scenarios, taking into account climate change and autonomous developments.
The team will design a master plan for the early warning systems and prepare an inventory of the gaps and needs in data, knowledge and structures. The master plan will combine rainfall prediction, model simulation and geographic information to provide regionalised forecasts.
Read More Related Content On This Topic - Click Here
Media
Taxonomy
- Non Profit
- Environment
- Climate Change