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The districts will relocate to safer places structures such as bridges, houses, roads, markets, schools and hospitals located in disaster prone areas to achieve a comprehensive goal of disaster risk reduction, reports the Ghana News Agency...
President John Evans Atta Mills noted that some disasters in the past few weeks could have been avoided if adequate preventive and protective measures had been put in place...
District and Zonal Coordinators of the National Disaster Management Organization have been asked to intensify their education on the prevention and management of disasters, reports Ghana News Agency...
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and its stakeholders would soon come out with guidelines for builders - artisans, land developers, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) - to incorporate disaster risk reduction in their projects...
Mr Kofi Portuphy, National Coordinator of NADMO, stressed the need to inculcate education and sensitisation on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the routine humanitarian aid work to reduce occurrences of disasters...
'Although the government has invested substantially in disaster management, it should intensify efforts to prevent disasters and make towns and cities' - especially in the face of climate change - observed Kofi Porturphy, of the Nat'l Disaster Mgmnt Org during a recent national platform meeting, reports GNA....
'[The Platform] is aimed at reducing socio-economic vulnerabilities to disasters as well as dealing with environmental and other hazards that trigger them,' said Nii Armah Ashietey, regional Minister. 'A cedi invested today in disaster risk reduction saves four cedis or more in the future cost of relief and rehabilitation' he stressed...
Professor Paul Buatsi, a former Chief Director of the Ministry of Education and Consultant of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has appealed to the Ministry of Education to consider disaster as a subject of study in schools...
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