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- Resource ID
- 2d7230fc-c374-11e5-9866-040146164b01
- Title
- North Ghana Flood Hazard Assessment
- Date
- Dec. 1, 2012, 2:59 p.m., Publication
- Abstract
- "Ghana is one of the countries in West Africa most affected by multiple hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly droughts and floods occur frequently. Ghana is a focus country for disaster risk reduction activities of GFDRR (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery). Since 2007, floods along the White Volta River have been a recurrent annual phenomenon due to heavy rainfall in the basin and (partly) coinciding with spilling from upstream Bagré reservoir in Burkina Faso. The floods of the last four years rank 1st , 4th, 7th and 8th highest in the series of Nawuni station at the White Volta since 1936. These floods affect development and livelihood in the three northerly regions of Ghana but on the other hand bring fertile sediments to the floodplains. The government of Ghana is committed to provide long-term solutions in the three regions of the North and in particular to initiate a comprehensive development plan to support economic growth opportunities in that region. As part of that effort a project was initiated targeting water and particularly flood management, following re-occurring floods in the three Northern provinces. Its main component is a study providing technical assistance to the Government of Ghana for coping with this problem. The study will investigate the scale and severity of flood hazards, the exposures of various assets and communities and assess the effectiveness of structural and non-structural measures to reduce or eliminate flood damages in the future. Results of this analysis will support the National Strategy for Disaster Prevention and development plans for the growth and development of the North, including development partner supported projects such as the Northern Growth Project financed by IFAD and the African Development Bank. With this as background, HKV CONSULTANTS was appointed by the World Bank to perform a Flood Hazard Assessment study for the White Volta River."
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- Responsible
- andy
- Point of Contact
- Fraser
- sfraser@worldbank.org
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- --
- Maintenance Frequency
- notPlanned
- Type
- not filled
- Restrictions
- None
- License
- Public Domain
- Language
- eng
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- Supplemental Information
- No information provided
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- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Keywords
- (6159, 8, 446, 48, 8, 'Flood', 'flood'), (6162, 85, 446, 48, 85, 'WBG', 'wbg'), (6161, 148, 446, 48, 148, 'Hazard Assessment', 'hazard-assessment'), (6160, 152, 446, 48, 152, 'Ghana', 'ghana')
- Category
- Geoscientific Information
- Regions
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Ghana