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Vice President John Dramani Mahama has appealed to traditional leaders to assist the Government to design and pursue effective adaptation strategies to curb the menace of climate change in the country...
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, urged municipal and district assemblies to put disaster mitigation plans in their development agenda especially in construction of places such as markets while speaking at the inauguration of the Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for the Regional National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) at Koforidua on Wednesday...
A Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) was launched on Thursday in Ghana, where participants called for political and social mobilization to achieve sustainable disaster risk reduction through education and advocacy and in accordance with the five priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)...
The Minister of the Interior will launch a year-long programme of activities, based on the Making Cities Resilient: 'My city is getting ready' world disaster reduction campaign, according to a statement issued by NADMO...
Mr Kofi Portuphy, NADMO coordinator stated that the launch of the regional and district platforms intends to bring the country in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action, a strategy for building the resilience of nations and communities in dealing with disasters...
'The platform will play the advocacy role in the region to drive home the fact that disaster risk reduction is a regional concern as well as everybody's business' said Kofi Portuphy, National Coordinator of the NADMO...
Recalling that disaster risk reduction should be everybody's business, Ghanaian officials call for a sense of responsibility towards disaster prevention and the management in the communities, giving practical examples...
The Ghana News Agency reports on the country's participation in the ECOWAS Regional Awareness and Sensitisation Workshop on integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in development policies, held in Accra this week...
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