Enabling policy environment: Contingency plan development

Within the project "Developing Risk Management Approaches for Climate Risks" the partnership between GIZ and Allianz Reinsurance provided guidance to three Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana, to develop and test contigency plans.

Contigency planning is a key preparedness and response tool, a mandatory part of an Integrated Disaster Risk Management Approach. The contigency plan ensures that cities know what to do when a disaster strikes and have the systems and tools to respond fast. It identifies stakeholders, institutional arrangements, and responsibilites that are to be taken to prevent the escalation of the criris and to stabilize the situation.