CREWS is a global partnership helping countries build effective, people-centered early warning systems. We bring together climate, weather and disaster risk expertise, financing and partnerships to strengthen national capacities – from observations and forecasting to risk information and communication. By supporting countries to lead and sustain their own systems, CREWS helps ensure that timely, actionable warnings reach those most at risk, protecting lives, livelihoods and development.
- The roles and responsibility for the CREWS Initiative are found in the CREWS Governance document.
- The CREWS Programming Framework is aligned with international principles for risk-based, people-centered, multi-hazard early warning systems, as described in Revised Operational Procedures Note No.1 Programming and Project Development.
- CREWS success is measured in the reduction of lives and livelihoods lost to extreme climate events (SDGs and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction) and contributes to the action agenda of the Paris Climate Agreement .The outcomes and outputs against which CREWS investments are monitored are set out in the Revised Operational Procedures Note No.2 Monitoring and Evaluation.
- CREWS recognizes that women’s empowerment is fundamental for building resilience and that men and women access, process, interpret and respond to information and warnings in different ways. The CREWS principles for gender-sensitive programming is detailed in Operational Procedures Note No.3 Gender-Sensitive Programming.
- The Short Version of the Operating Plan: Delivering at Scale, 2021-2025 adopted by the CREWS Contributing Members identifies the opportunities to further increase the impact and scale of operations in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).