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Good Disaster Management Can Enhance Development.

Public Agenda

| August 11, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2008 AllAfrica Global Media. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM)

Byline: Frederick Asiamah

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has identified disaster risk reduction as a major impetus for sustainable development.

Reducing disaster risks, NADMO says, will minimize the vulnerability of Ghanaians to disasters, and decrease the adverse impact of such disasters on the socio-economic development of the people.

As part of measures being taken to reduce disaster risks, NADMO is developing a framework called "National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction" which is aimed at providing guidelines for better co-ordination in the prevention of disasters.

According to Brig.-Gen. Joseph Odei (Rtd.), …

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