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Advancing operational flood forecasting, early warning and risk management with new emerging science: Gaps, opportunities and barriers in Kenya

This paper outlines the opportunities and challenges to improve end-to-end flood early warning systems, considering the scientific, technical and institutional/governance dimensions. Kenya and the wider East African region suffer from significant flood risk, as illustrated by major losses of lives, livelihoods and assets in the most recent years. This is likely to increase in future […]

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Warnings in Violence and Conflict: Coproducing warnings with and for those most at risk

People living in places affected by violence disproportionately experience and are impacted by natural hazard-related disasters, yet they are often left without adequate early warning and response systems. Warnings are known to be best developed and implemented through people-centered approaches like coproduction.  Coproducing warnings with affected populations as target end users is necessary for inclusive

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Common Alerting Protocol – RCRC Workshop – 07 October 2021

Common Alerting Protocol Workshop 2021 for Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) October 7th, 2021, the event was held virtually. It was sponsored by IFRC, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center, The IFRC Climate Centre, and USAID. Agenda Intro and Wrap up slides Introducing the Common Alerting Protocol Slides Introducing the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) Presentation

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CAP Workshop 2022 – Report

The 2022 CAP Implementation Workshop and Training was held on 19-21 September in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A Zoom Webinar was also offered by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Conference Services for those who could not participate in person. Alert-Hub.Org CIC and Everbridge hosted both events. They were co-sponsored by the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM),

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