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The five regions in northern Ghana will have access to €80,000 in EU funding for flood preparedness.
In response to the Meteorological Agency’s and the National Disaster Management Organization’s (NADMO) warning of increasing rainfall and flooding in northern Ghana, this has been done.
This was said in a statement the European Commission released on September 7, 2023, in Accra.
The financing will help identify early warning systems, update risk analyses and monitoring systems, start anticipatory steps to lessen or minimize the effects of flooding, and identify priority activities and response readiness.
“This EU funding aims at mitigating the impact of floods for potentially 50,000 people in Northern regions of Ghana during the peak of the season by reducing their shelter, WASH and health vulnerability as identified to likely be affected. It will enable the Ghanaian Red Cross to implement both anticipatory and early actions and will prop up preparedness actions such as training of volunteers, prepositioning of response stocks that should enable quicker deployment of a response, early evacuation of people in identifies sites, simulation exercises, awareness sessions for water-related diseases prior the floods season,” EU stated in their statement.
According to the report, 2,144,677 individuals are at risk in the Northern, Upper East, and Upper West, which are the areas designated for humanitarian relief.
The aid is concentrated in susceptible places where flooding would have a substantial negative impact on local economies and agriculture in riverbank communities.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
