• NADMO, VRA, Tests VRA’s Emergency Preparedness Plan on Dam Spillage

    The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) with its vision to enhance the capacity of society to prevent and manage disasters and to improve the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable in rural communities has on Monday 8th, May 2023, with the Volta River Authority (VRA) held an opening ceremony of fullscale Simulation on the VRA Emergency Preparedness Plan at the VRA Headquarters in Accra.
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  • NADMO & Partners Begins National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment Training

    Drawn from different stakeholder organizations in the area of managing disasters and similar emergencies, about 60 experts were engaged at the Marriott Hotel in Accra on 19th April 2023 to participate in sharing their expert experience in a critical disaster risk reduction exercise.
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  • NADMO Opens A Two Weeks Multi-Hazard Preparedness Exercise Dubbed: (Lignite Coast 2022 Preparedness Exercise…Operation….Shikpon Wosomo)

    Following the recent earth tremors recorded in the nation, the government of Ghana through the National Disaster Management Organisation has tasked stakeholders to lead in ensuring a harmonious collaboration to prevent or mitigate the impact of disaster especially inevitable disasters like the earthquake.
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  • NADMO Staff undergoes Psychosocial Counselling training in handling migrants

    The government in collaboration with the International Organization of Migration, the German Cooperation Agency and the Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs and Migration and Reintegration has organised a 2-day training session for NADMO staff on 10th and 11th May 2021.
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  • PARADES PROJECT

    The participatory assessment of flood-related disaster prevention and development of an adapted coping system in Ghana (PARADeS) project is a collaboration between the University of Bonn (U-BN), University of Freiburg (U-FR), University of Applied Sciences in Magdeburg (HS-M), and Flood Competence Center (HKC) of Germany and the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), Water Resources Commission (WRC)
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  • US AMBASSADOR TO GHANA PAYS COURTESY CALL ON DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF NADMO

    H.E Stephanie S. Sullivan, Ambassador of the United States of America to Ghana, on Friday, April 16, 2021, paid a courtesy call on the Director-General of NADMO, Hon Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh.
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  • PRESIDENT NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO ADDO PRESENTS 40 VEHICLES TO NADMO

    On Friday, 19th March 2021, His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo paid a historic visit to the Headquarters...
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  • ASHANTI REGION FIRES NADMO TO MEET STAKEHOLDERS

    Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Hon. Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh has said that the organization
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  • 2020 INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MARKED WITH QUIZ

    Celebrating this year’s international day for disaster risk reduction in Ghana, the National Disaster Management Organisation...
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NADMO, VRA, Tests VRA’s Emergency Preparedness Plan on Dam Spillage

Mr. Eric Nana Agyemang Prempeh, Director General of NADMO, Mr. Seji Saji, Deputy Director General of NADMO-Technical, Mr. Volta River Authority, The North Darkota National Guard-United States of America.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) with its vision to enhance the capacity of society to prevent and manage disasters and to improve the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable in rural communities has on Monday 8th, May 2023, with the Volta River Authority (VRA) held an...

NADMO & Partners Begins National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment Training

Mr. Eric Nana Agyemang Prempeh, Director General of NADMO, Mr. Seji Saji, Deputy Director General of NADMO-Technical, Mr. Abu Ramadan, Deputy Director General of NADMO-Operations, The North Darkota National Guard-United States of America.

Drawn from different stakeholder organizations in the area of managing disasters and similar emergencies, about 60 experts were engaged at the Marriott Hotel in Accra on 19th April 2023 to participate in sharing their expert experience in a critical disaster risk reduction exercise.

US Ambassador To Ghana Pays Courtesy Call On Director-General Of Nadmo

Mr. Seji Saji, Deputy Director General of NADMO-Technical, Mr. Abu Ramadan, Deputy Director General of NADMO-Operations, The North Darkota National Guard-United States of America.

Following the recent earth tremors recorded in the nation, the government of Ghana through the National Disaster Management Organisation has tasked stakeholders to lead in ensuring a harmonious collaboration to prevent or mitigate the impact of disaster especially inevitable disasters like the earthquake.

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Hazards

What is hazard?

A hazard is a process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation. Hazards may be natural, anthropogenic or socionatural in origin (UNISDR, 2016).

Why does it matter?

Hazards are often categorized by whether they are natural (sometimes termed physical) or technological (sometimes called man-made or human-induced). The term ‘peril’ is sometimes used instead of hazard, particularly in the insurance industry.

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Types of hazards

Avalanche, Cold Wave, Cyclone,Drought, Earthquake,Epidemic & Pandemic, Flood, Heat Wave, Insect Infestation, Land Slide, NBC - Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Storm Surge, Technical Disaster, Tornado, Tsunami, Volcano, Wild Fire.

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Characteristics of hazards

Natural hazard events can be characterized by their magnitude or intensity, speed of onset, duration, and the area they cover.

How do we measure hazards?

Essential steps in hazard assessment are identifying the relevant hazard(s) and the collection of hazard-related data. Once the hazards are defined, the next step often involves obtaining a variety of hazard-related data. The most essential data define the date, geographical location and extent, and maximum intensity of historical events. 

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Can we reduce hazards?

The adverse impacts of hazards, in particular natural hazards, often cannot be prevented fully, but their scale or severity can be substantially lessened by various strategies and actions.

Datasets

Datasets

Data and statistics are important in understanding the impacts and costs of disasters.

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Data Viewers

Open access, online data viewers present hazard, disaster, and risk data in an easily accessible manner.

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Components of Risk

  • Disaster risk

    Risk is a forward looking concept, so disaster risk can be understood as the likelihood (or probability) of loss of life, injury or destruction and damage from a disaster in a given period of time (adapted from UNISDR, 2015a).

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  • Hazard

    A dangerous event that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, as well as damage and loss to property, infrastructure, livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption and, or environmental damage is known as a hazard (UNISDR, 2009b).

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  • Exposure

    The presence and number of people, property, livelihoods, systems or other elements in hazard areas (and so thereby subject to potential losses) is known as exposure (UNISDR, 2009b and IPCC, 2012).

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  • Vulnerability

    The name given to the set of characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard is vulnerability.

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Risk Drivers

Climate change

Climate change can increase disaster risk in a variety of ways – by altering the frequency and intensity of hazard events, affecting vulnerability to hazards, and changing exposure patterns.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is both a driver and consequence of disasters, reducing the capacity of the environment to meet social and ecological needs.

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Globalized economic development

Globalized economic development can lead to increased exposure of assets in hazard-prone areas, leading to further increases in intensive risk if not managed.

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Poverty & inequality

Poverty is both a driver and consequence of disasters, and the processes that further disaster risk related poverty are permeated with inequality.

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Poorly planned urban development

Whether or not disaster risk is factored into investment decisions in urban development will have a decisive influence on the future of disaster risk reduction.

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Weak governance

Governance of disaster risk management must be improved, not only through specialized and stand-alone sectors, but also through strengthened governance arrangements across sectors and territories in order to address disaster risk.

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Key Concepts

Capacity

Capacity refers to all the strengths, attributes and resources available within a community, organization or society that can be used to achieve agreed goals.

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Deterministic & probabilistic risk

Deterministic risk considers the impact of a single risk scenario, whereas probabilistic risk considers all possible scenarios, their likelihood and associated impacts.

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Direct & indirect losses

Direct disaster losses refer to the number of people killed and the damage to buildings, infrastructure and natural resources. Indirect disaster losses include declines in output or revenue and generally arise from disruptions to the flow of goods and services.

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Disaster risk reduction & disaster risk management

DRR is the policy objective of anticipating and reducing risk. Although often used interchangeably with DRR, DRM can be thought of as DRR implementation, since it describes the actions that aim to achieve the objective of reducing risk.

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Intensive & extensive risk

Extensive risk is used to describe the risk of low-severity, high-frequency disasters, mainly but not exclusively associated with highly localized hazards. Intensive risk is used to describe the risk of high-severity, mid to low-frequency disasters, mainly associated with major hazards.

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Resilience

Resilience refers to the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner.

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Sovereign risk

Sovereign risk is the economic impact a government would face in the event of a disaster.

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Models

Risk modeling

We need data on hazard, exposure, vulnerability and losses in order to understand and assess disaster risk.

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