Final project presentation for Financing for Development MOOC by World Bank Group and Coursera

1. EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNIT IN GHANA
BY ROSABEL BORTEY

2. THE PROBLEM
GHANA AS A NATION HAS
A VERY POOR DISASTER
MANAGEMENT POLICY.
THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM
AFFECTING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
NATION AS MANY LIVES
ARE LOST AS A RESULT OF
POOR RESPONSE TO
EMERGENCIES/ DISASTERS

3. THE AIM OF THIS RESOURCE IS TO ENGAGE
AND INFORM ALL GHANAIANS

4. BOTH UKRAINE AND GHANA ARE CONSIDERED AS DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES. BELOW PICTURES HAVE BEEN SAMPLED TO CONTRAST
DISASTER RESPONSE IN THE TWO COUNTRIES
DISASTER RESPONSE IN UKRAINE DISASTER RESPONSE IN GHANA

5. GHANA’S LACK OF A WELL-STRUCTURED EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNIT
CAUSES AN OVERWHELMING LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY WITH THE
SLIGHTEST HIT OF A NATURAL OCCURENCE LIKE FLOODING.

6. PRESERVATION OF LIVES, WHICH IN EFFECT IS PRESERVATION
OF HUMAN RESOURCES

7. PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY I.E CAPITAL

8. REDUCES FEAR AND PANIC AMONG THE RESIDENTS OF THE
COUNTRY

9. CREATION OF JOBS FOR CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS

10. REVENUE CREATION FOR NATION AND STAKEHOLDERS
THROUGH LEVIES, TAXES, PAYMENTS MADE FOR SUBSCRIBERS, ETC

11. IN GHANA, THE OBSTACLES FACING THE DEVELOPMENT ISSUE OF THE LACK OF A
WELL STRUCTURED EMERGENCY UNIT ARE:
 GHANA HAS AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN, BUT IS MOST LIKELY TO FAIL IN
THECASE OF A SERIOUS DISASTER, AS WAS THE CASE OF THE JUNE 3, 2015 FLOODS
WHICH CLAIMED OVER 200 LIVES, AND A LOT OF PROPERTY.

12. TWOMAJOR OBSTACLES WITH REGARDS TO THIS ISSUE IN
GHANA ARE AFFORDABILITY AND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
 affordability- the nation already
suffers huge fiscal deficits and it
may be almost impossible to
sponsor such a major project
fiscally. other means of financing
must be tailored into this project
 political interference- each political
party wants bragging rights for a
specific project. this kind of attitude
leads to a lot of vanity projects,
where a lot of money and time are
spent on unspecific things and then
left to go with no conclusion.
political parties can co-operate on
such a project to make it a success.

13.  ACCORDING TO DR ISHMAEL NORMAN, THE EXISTING FRAMEWORK OF GHANA’S EMERGENCY
PLAN IS NOT IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES AND NEEDS CRITICAL THINKING. HE QUOTED IN AN
INTERVIEW ON GHANA’S SUPER MORNING SHOW “that the population in urban areas, especially in
Accra, has become dynamic in terms of demographics and has increased in size. He said these factors alone
point to the need to take emergency responses more seriously”

14. GHANA’S MAJOR PROBLEM IS PLANNING.
DR ISHMAEL NORMAN ALSO ADDED IN HIS INTERVIEW CONCERNING GHANA’S
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN THAT “Ghana as a country is not planned well.
Not only the cities, the villages are not planned well, the towns are not planned
well we have a systemic problem in planning”

15. THE WORLD BANK OFFERS ADVISOR SERVICES ON CHANELLING
FINANCES INTO MUCH NEEDED PROJECTS. THIS PROJECT I BELIEVE
IS ONE THAT WILL BE MOST SUCCESFUL IF SPEARHEADED BY THE
RIGHT BRAINS, AND THE RIGHT AMOUNTS OF MONEY ARE
PUSHED INTO IT IN A TAILORED MANNER.

16. THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN THIS PROJECT WILL FOSTER
BOTH ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROFITABILITY
HOUSEHOLD AND PRIVATE IVESTMENT INTO SUCH A VENTURE WILL NOT
ONLY ENFORCE ITS SUSTAINABILITY BUT ALSO CAUSE THE BRAINS PUT
BEHIND THE PROJECT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
THIS ALSO MEANS THAT FISCAL FINANCING DOES OT NEED TO BE USED
FOR THIS DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECT, BUT MONIES CAN BE RAISED
THROUGH PRIVATE INVESTMENTS WITH AN ASSURANCE OF
PROFITABILITY AS THE DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUE IN QUESTION IS IN
ACTUAL SENSE A MUCH NEEDED ONE.

17. WITH AN EXCELLENT COMMITTEE PUT AT THE HELM OF AFFAIRS OF
PLANNING THIS PROJECT, GRANTS, AIDS, AND GUARANTEES COULD BE
SOLICITED FORM DONOR COUNTRIES OR GROUPS SUCH AS THE BILL
GATES FOUNDATION.
FROM THE LESSONS I TOOK NOTE OF THE FACT THAT
PHILANTHROPISTS FIND SUCH DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS
RATHER INTERESTING, AND ARE MORE INCLINED TO OFFER
SUPPORT.
 THIS PROJECT IS RISKY SINCE IT INVOLVES NEW TECHNOLOGY
 IT ALSO INVOLVES NEW APPROACHES

18. DEVELOPMENT IS DEFINED AS A LIFE IN PEACE, A LIFE WITHOUT
POVERTY AND INEQUALITIES.
DEVELOPMENT COMES IN MANY FORMS FOR A NATION. THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING FOR DEVELOPMENT IS FINANCING IT. ONCE
RESOURCES ARE MOBILISED AND TRANSFERRED TO ATTAIN SPECIFIC
NEEDS, THEN DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.

19. GHANA CAN AND MUST ACHIEVE ONE OF THE MOST CRUCIAL
DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS WHICH IS HEALTHCARE. I BELIEVE STRONGLY
THAT AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNIT IS THE NEXT STEP NEEDED TO
ATTAIN THIS GOAL.

21. BY ROSABEL BORTEY