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Awareness material, Report
24 Apr 2023
Early warnings for hazards are essential for living safely and minimizing economic losses. For many hazards, it is possible to give advance notice and accurate information to help communities prepare and respond. However, issuance of the warning ...
Tags: Awareness material, Report, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Hazard, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Volcano
Awareness material
06 Apr 2023
With 3 out of 4 people owning a mobile phone (in 2022), mobile networks have become a powerful communication channel to alert populations about an imminent hazard. Despite this, many countries have yet to implement a mobile-based Early Warning System...
Tags: Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
Awareness material
06 Apr 2023
False alarms and near misses can erode public trust in weather warnings, which may lead to people becoming less responsive to actual risks. However, false alarms and near misses can also be used to increase public awareness and improve risk assessmen...
Tags: Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
Awareness material
06 Apr 2023
Community-based early warning systems (CBEWS) provide community members with the information they need to assess the risk they are facing and make decisions to protect their lives and livelihoods. CBEWS are essential for achieving “early warning fo...
Tags: Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
Report
04 Apr 2023
This compendium of multi-hazard early warning cooperation will capitalize on recent publications to identify county-specific challenges and note good practices cooperation arrangements to strengthen forecasting capabilities, early warning coverage, a...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems
Research
04 Apr 2023
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 flo...
Tags: Research, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Hazard
Report
24 Feb 2023
The annual State of Play reports contribute to the growing evidence base of lessons learned on what it takes to bring early action to scale. They provide snapshots of international, regional and national investments, commitments and activities linked...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems
Awareness material, Case Study
30 Jan 2023
This Briefing Note focuses on ‘Community and impact-based warnings – the site-specific Early Warning System Framework’.
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Awareness material, Case Study
30 Jan 2023
This Briefing Note focuses on ‘Warnings in Violence and Conflict – Coproducing warnings with and for those most at risk’.  
Tags: Awareness material, Case Study, Early Warning Systems
Awareness material
19 Jan 2023
This ‘Warnings Briefing Note’ focuses on ‘The First Mile of Warnings: Placing people first’
Tags: Awareness material, Early Warning Systems