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By Julius K. Satsi / Jennifer Ansu, RNG
Accra, May 31, GNA – German Development
Agence (GIZ) and Allianz Ghana lead an insurance development project
Models for Extreme Climate Events in Greater Accra Metropolitan Region
(GAMA).
The project, entitled: "Developing Insurability
Project ", aims to help municipalities develop contingency plans
which would help to reduce the impacts of hazards and anticipated catastrophes, in particular
flood.
The three-year project, which began in
2018, is designed to be implemented in three municipalities of GAMA, including
The municipalities of Ga West and Ga East, as well as the Metropolitan Assembly of Accra.
As part of the project, GIZ and Allianz
Ghana hosted Thursday a workshop for some actors from the three countries
Municipalities and other relevant stakeholders, including fire departments,
National Disaster Management Authority (NADMO) and budget managers among
other.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency
Benjamin Antwi-Boasiako, Senior Project Manager for
Allainz Climate Solutions in Munich, Germany, said that the whole idea behind the "Develop
"Insurability" was intended to help municipalities in Accra better manage
annual flood risk.
He said the project was to help
determine the best way to reduce the risk, because no matter what has been done, the floods
would happen anyway, but the question was how municipalities could be better
helped to recover through insurance means when floods occur.
He said: "Allianz is one of the biggest
Insurance companies in the world and is present in more than seventy countries
and with society with such a big size, we feel we have a
responsibility towards the companies in which we operate. "
Mr Antwi-Boasiako said that climate change had
major global problem, Allianz is committed to helping developing countries
countries where natural disasters generally occur more often, to prepare for
this risk emerges and that is why Allianz decided to badociate with the GIZ and to work
on this project in Ghana.
He said that the insurance company was
firmly believe that the approach could contribute to making societies more
resilience to climate risk, where, in the event of a flood, the business would be
help the municipality repair the damage and the infrastructure affected.
He said that it was the goal of the project
responsible for the implementation that by December 2020, the insurance policy would have been
developed for municipalities because they had already started
preliminary collection of watershed data.
Mr Matthias Range, project manager,
said, although the project does not tend to mitigate the annual effects
floods in Accra, this would help improve waste management
management systems in municipalities.
He said that although both institutions were
doing their part to mitigate the floods in GAMA, it is in the hands of
everyone to do their part to reduce the losses usually badociated
with them.
He stated that the whole project had been estimated
cost about four million euros and that GIZ is committed to implementing
project with their partner Allianz to ensure that the municipalities were
secured.
Professor Martin Oteng-Ababio, head of the
Department of Geography and Resource Development of the University of Ghana,
who is the consultant for the project, said the latest disaster management plan
the developed country was in 2010.
He said that there was the need to regularly
update the country's disaster management plan to ensure its sustainability in the
changing phases of society, especially in the Greater Accra region.
He said that it was a necessary factor to ensure
each badembly has developed a measure to deal with the potential risks, which
had tended to prevent disasters sustained continuously by the country.
Prof Oteng-Ababio declared the disaster
The management plan developed by the country did not take into account the individual
Municipalities and their particular challenges, but generalized solutions, adding
that it was necessary to develop a disaster management strategy specifically
for each municipality.
He said to curb the threat of openness
defecation in the water bodies of GAMA, it was necessary for the government to
public toilets freely accessible to all citizens and that its management
should be given to the bademblies.
GNA
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