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Rising water levels upstream from the Akosombo Dam, primarily due to heavy rainfall caused the Volta River Authority to spill excess water on 15 September 2023. The spillage has caused flooding in communities downstream of the dam, destroying homes and farmland along the banks of the River Volta. Therefore, some communities were displaced into safe havens (also known as collective centers) in the districts of Ada East, Central Tongu, North Tongu and Shai Osudoku.
To update population figures in the safe havens, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), with technical and financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), deployed the DTM-developed Standard Registration Tool. This initiative, carried out in collaboration with the World Food Programme, World Vision and the Ghanaian Federation of Persons with Physical Disabilities, took place between 14 and 17 November 2023. Thirty enumerators conducted registrations across 25 safe havens in the affected districts, recording over 7,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from 1,492 households. The deployment provided detailed data and an in-depth analysis of the specific needs of these households.
Months after this activity a mop up registration exercise was necessitated to identify the needs of unregistered individuals across seven safe havens in two districts, namely North Tongu and Shai Osudoku. This will help the government make informed decisions in providing aid and supporting the successful resettlement and reintegration of these IDPs
The three-day mop-up registration exercise was conducted in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), between 8 and 11 September 2024. A refresher training was provided to seven NADMO staff on the IOM Standard Registration Tool and the methodology to complete the registration exercise successfully. The enumerators were divided into two teams based on the estimates of the number of people in the safe havens as provided by NADMO, with two supervision teams established, comprising staff from both NADMO and IOM. This activity provided further information on the remaining individuals, households, existing vulnerabilities, priority needs, as well as displacement-related triggers to inform future