The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, says the government is committed to building a resilient nation through effective multi-hazard early warning systems.
She said the recruitment of 250 staff and the procurement of 26 Water Automatic Weather Stations by the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), amendment of the GMet Act 2019, and the enactment of the Ghana Hydrological Authority Act, 2022, was a testament to such commitment.
Also, she mentioned that the West Africa Food Resilience System project, and the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) project were some examples of ongoing projects aimed at building multi-hazard early warning systems.
Delivering a keynote address at the launch and consultative workshop on Ghana's Early Warning for All (EW4All) initiative in Accra on Tuesday, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, said the initiative was aimed at protecting every individual on the earth from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by 2027.