The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, says the federal government is committed to constructing a resilient nation by way of efficient multi-hazard early warning programs.
She mentioned the recruitment of 250 employees and the procurement of 26 Water Computerized Climate Stations by the Ghana Meteorological Company (GMet), modification of the GMet Act 2019, and the enactment of the Ghana Hydrological Authority Act, 2022, was a testomony to such dedication.
Additionally, she talked about that the West Africa Meals Resilience System mission, and the Larger Accra Resilient and Built-in Development (GARID) mission had been some examples of ongoing tasks aimed toward constructing multi-hazard early warning programs.
Delivering a keynote handle on the launch and consultative workstore on Ghana’s Early Warning for All (EW4All) initiative in Accra on Tuesday, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, mentioned the initiative was aimed toward defending each particular person on the earth from hazardous climate, water, or local weather occasions by way of life-saving early warning programs by 2027.
In keeping with Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, the profitable implementation of the EW4All initiative would assist the nation to realize 5 of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives which targeted on good well being and well-being, cities and communities, local weather motion, life on land, and partnerships.
She defined that it was important for an efficient multi-hazard early warning system developed in a approach that made it inclusive and accessible to all segments in society because it performed a task in decreasing vulnerability and elevated resilience of communities to potential hazards.
“The profitable implementation of EW4All requires a structured method, together with logistical preparation, hole evaluation, a comprehensive roadmap, useful resource mobilisation, securing potential dedication and stakeholder coordination,” Mrs Owusu-Ekuful mentioned.
Because the Vice President of the African Ministerial Convention on Meteorology (AMCOMET), she mentioned her position was to advance Early Warning Techniques (EWS) throughout Africa.
She expressed gratitude to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) for its steady assist to the Nationwide Meteorological and Hydrological Providers (NMHSs), together with Ghana, the place GMet was implementing the Frequent Alerting Protocol (CAP) on its new web site.
The minister counseled the worldwide our bodies and funding establishments who had been finishing up varied tasks to strengthen the nation’s EWS.
“Allow us to work collectively to make sure that each Ghanaian is protected by early warning programs. Together, we will construct a safer and extra sustainable future for Ghana,” the minister added.
Earlier in his welcome handle, the Director-Common of the Ghana EW4all initiative, Dr Eric Asuman, praised stakeholders for his or her collaborative effort for the profitable launch.
He added that the GMet, per its mandate was to offer related local weather companies, and would continue to strengthen their collaboration with all nationwide pillars to boost early warning programs.
The United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator in Ghana, Mr Charles Abani, in a speech learn on his behalf by the Improvement Coordinating Officer (Information Management and Consequence Monitoring/ Reporting), Myra Togobo, belowscored the necessity for collaboration amongst stakeholders in attaining the objectives of the EW4All initiative.
“The combination of native information with scientific information to boost group resilience is essential to this course of,” Mr Abani added
BY CYNTHIA ASAMPANA
