The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) on Monday opened a week-long training course for 50 participants drawn from institutions in the country.
The course, the fourth under which more than 300 people had passed through, �is very essential for national efforts at disaster management,� Mr Kofi Portuphy, National Coordinator for NADMO, said in Accra.
The Course would also afford participants from the security agencies, Meteorological Agency, universities, and non-governmental organisations providing humanitarian services including Adventists Relief Agencies (ADRA), and the Ghana Red Cross.
Trainers from the Bournemouth University in United Kingdom, through the British High Commission in Ghana, are facilitating the training.
Mr Portuphy said NADMO, by its design have always ensured that it provided support to partner agencies in the form of training on preparation and planning to mitigate the effects of all kinds of disasters to reduce the hazards from becoming disastrous.
He said people�s interference with nature and ecosystem over the years had kept on bringing trouble to mankind and that calls for such a collaboration to find ways of addressing such natural disasters.
He commended the British Defence Forces and the British High Commission for partnering NADMO to train the participants, saying, such previous training helped officials in Ghana to handle the air cargo plane crash.
Mr Portuphy said with Ghana�s new oil industry, there was the need to work to ensure that people were protected from any future disasters or risk associated with oil production and that NADMO was also working with oil companies to protect the national interest.
Professor Richard Gordon, Director of Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre, UK said participants would share best practices, and learn about integration and cooperation for planning to mitigate disasters and risk reduction.
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