The goal of this project, implemented by Action Aid, is to reduce people’s vulnerability to natural disasters by contributing to the implementation of the Hyogo framework. The purpose is to make schools in high-risk disaster areas safer, enabling them to act as a locus for disaster risk reduction. The project works in 7 countries in selected districts at high-risk of diverse natural disasters.

The Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana and the School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, partnered in this project, whose purpose is to develop locally-appropriate and time-sustainable capacity to undertake pre-disaster socioeconomic, technical prevention and adaptation options to reduce the potential adverse impacts of climate change on human health vulnerability in Ghana.