• NADMO Headquarters Holds Staff Durbar

    The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) held its first Staff Durbar at the organisation’s headquarters in Accra. The purpose of the durbar was for management to interact with employees and address key concerns. Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, Director General of NADMO, in his opening address, called for staff to uphold a positive attitude and commitment to their work while acknowledging the invaluable sacrifices and contributions of staff in managing disasters.
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  • Let’s Prioritise the Disaster Management Strategy Document - NADMO Boss

    Director General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, has called for prioritising the National Disaster Management Strategy, describing it as the most important document regarding Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. He made the call during a well-attended Inter-Agency Working Group on Emergencies (IAWGE) meeting organised by the Disease Epidemics Department of NADMO.
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  • NADMO Receives 180 Ghanaian Returnees from Libya

    On April 24, 2025, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) successfully welcomed 180 Ghanaian migrants who voluntarily returned from Libya.

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  • NADMO Boss Meets Military Forces Staff

    The Director General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, paid a courtesy call on some officers of the Ghana Armed Forces, comprising the Ghana Navy, Ghana Air Force, and the Military, on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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  • NADMO Paid a Working Visit to NDPC

    The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) recently visited the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) to enhance collaboration between the two institutions.

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  • NADMO Partners with Johns Hopkins University to Hold Drawning Prevention Seminar

    The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in collaboration with the US-based Johns Hopkins University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), conducted a seminar focused on finding a lasting solution to the problem of drowning in the country.

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  • NADMO Director General Meets GAMA Director

    The Director General of NADMO, Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, held an emergency meeting with all NADMO Directors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) at the NADMO Headquarters in Accra. The meeting was convened to discuss flooding preparedness in GAMA and prompt directors to activate the Flood Risk Contingency Plans for the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in anticipation of this year's rainfall.
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  • NADMO Boss Calls on Greater Accra Regional Minister

    Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, Director General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has expressed the organization’s readiness to collaborate with key stakeholders to mitigate the impact of this year’s rains on citizens. He said this when he paid a courtesy call on the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Linda Ocloo, at her office on Monday, March 17, 2025.
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  • IOM’S Support for NADMO Crucial

    Nnamdi Iwuora, a Senior Programme Manager at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has stated that IOM is prepared to continue supporting the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) to improve its effectiveness and efficiency. He made this assurance during a courtesy visit to NADMO's Headquarters on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
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Viruses can spread from human contact with animals and also from human to human.

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NADMO Headquarters Holds Staff Durbar

New NADMO Director, Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, NADMO, All Deputy Director Generals, Staff of NADMO

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) held its first Staff Durbar at the organisation’s headquarters in Accra. The purpose of the durbar was for management to interact with employees and address key concerns. Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, Director General of NADMO, in his opening address, called for staff to uphold a positive attitude and commitment to their work while acknowledging the invaluable sacrifices and contributions of staff in managing disasters.

Let’s Prioritise the Disaster Management Strategy Document - NADMO Boss

The Director General of NADMO, Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, Inter-Agency Working Group on Emergencies, Disease Epidemics Department, NADMO

Director General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Major (Rtd) Dr. Joseph Bikanyi Kuyon, has called for prioritising the National Disaster Management Strategy, describing it as the most important document regarding Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. He made the call during a well-attended Inter-Agency Working Group on Emergencies (IAWGE) meeting organised by the Disease Epidemics Department of NADMO.

NADMO Receives 180 Ghanaian Returnees from Libya

National Disaster Management Organisation, 180 Ghanaian Migrants, International Organisation for Migration, Ghana Health Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Police Service, Ghana Revenue Authority, National Intelligence Bureau

On April 24, 2025, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) successfully welcomed 180 Ghanaian migrants who voluntarily returned from Libya. This effort, which was supported by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), involved collaboration...

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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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