ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes two urban communities in the African nation of Ghana. The Global Hazard Resilience through Opportunities for Women (GHROW) initiative is designed to build capacity around disaster risk reduction knowledge, skills, and advocacy. The shift from rural to urbanized living in the African nation of Ghana has been a steady process, with significant urban population growth beginning in 1990 and continuing over the last two decades. Women and their children are among the poorest in urban locales, yet these areas can provide greater opportunity for females to develop diverse social ties and connections to obtain access to services that would otherwise be unobtainable. Global urbanization poses a unique set of challenges and opportunities for women; so natural and man-made hazards, particularly when they impact urban locales. In terms of the involvement of men in general, and husbands specifically, in disaster management support networks, women in both communities offered different evaluations depending on the religion of the participant.
