In the last 15 years, major World Bank financing, largely loans to Ghana, meant to improve Greater Accra’s flood resilience, sanitation and related urban systems totals approximately US$655m:
1. 2013: Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project- US$150m
2. 2019: Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) Project-US$200m
3. 2020: GAMA Sanitation and Water Project Additional Financing -US$125m
4. 2023: GARID – Additional Financing-US$150m
5. 2024: GAMA Sanitation and Water Project – Second Additional Financing-US$30m
Maybe this is the right time to impact-evaluate these huge projects.
“A lion counts the hunt by meat on the ground, not by the roar in the forest.”-Larteh Proverb!
It's Monday, 29th June. It's been raining for the last 6 hours in Accra. Terrible flooding.
This has exposed the quality of our policy engineering for the last couple of decades.
We can't do the same things and expect different results. Faulty Policy Engineering to blame.
Accra is flooding, people are counting losses and our leaders are in America watching the World Cup.
Even the water has more direction than this country’s leadership.
We have to come together as a country and make some tough decisions about how to stop these floods!
Each year it’s getting worse.
Children can’t dance in the rain anymore, we all run for shelter, even cars aren’t safe.
The likes of Sammy Gyamfi and other NDC communicators who claimed they came to rescue the “soul of the nation” are enjoying the World Cup in the U.S., while that same “soul of the nation” suffocates under floods back home. Leadership must show up when the people need it most.
If today’s flooding isn’t alarming enough for the residents of Accra and the Government of Ghana, I don’t know what will be. This should be a wake up call not just for concern, but for decisive and effective action. We cannot normalize preventable disasters year after year.
If today’s flooding isn’t alarming enough for the residents of Accra and the Government of Ghana, I don’t know what will be. This should be a wake up call not just for concern, but for decisive and effective action. We cannot normalize preventable disasters year after year.