Urban areas in Ghana face unprecedented challenges including rising income disparities and increased vulnerability to disaster and climate change impacts. Parts of the Greater Accra region, for example, has been subjected to perennial flooding occasioned by, poor sanitation and drainage infrastructure, overcrowded spaces, and weak regulatory enforcement with respect to sanitation, drainage and waste management. The Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development project (GARID) is the first in a series of projects designed to build the resilience of the national capital with the intial phase covering a five-year period (2020-2025). It is funded by the World Bank and has been designed to address most of these challenges, especially, in the targeted flood prone vulnerable communities in the Odaw basin. The goal of the project is to improve flood risk and solid waste management in the Odaw River basin of the Greater Accra region and improve access to basic infrastructure and services in the targeted communities within the Odaw River Basin.

• Strengthen flood and solid waste management in the Greater Accra region, particularly, in communities within the Odaw River basin,
• Improve the living conditions of the most vulnerable communities in the Odaw basin.
• Foster adaptation of the flood management infrastructure to climate change in the Greater Accra Region.

Ministry of Works and Housing

Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources

Ministry of Inner City and Zongo Development

Ministry Local Government and Rural Development

Ministry of Health

Hydrological Services Department (HSD)
Lands Commission

Ghana Meteorological Authority (G-Met)

National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO)

Metropolitan and Municipal Assemblies, (MMAs)

Water Resources Commission (WRC)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority (LUSPA)