CREWS on the global stage in 2025
Sharing early warning experience and expertise
Building on a strong track record of sharing its experience and expertise at regional and global early warning events, throughout 2025, CREWS has showcased its work in LDCs and SIDS.
Global
- June: CREWS launched its Annual Report 2024 at a reception co-hosted with the Anticipation Hub. CREWS also promoted best practice in scaling up early warning systems, with members of the CREWS Secretariat and Steering Committee sharing insights and experience through numerous events, as session chairs, panel members and through the innovation platform of the inaugural EW4All Multi-stakeholder Forum held alongside the 8th session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Late June-early July: CREWS showcased as best practice its framework for financing early warning systems and was recognized as central to global financing efforts aimed at supporting sustainable development and climate resilience at the Sevilla Platform for Action at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville, Spain
- October: CREWS demonstrated how its investments are major drivers in advancing universal early warning coverage and reinforced the need for alignment amongst partners, as set out in its 2030 Strategy at the technical segment of the 4th meeting of the G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group in Cape Town, South Africa.
- November: CREWS launched its 2030 strategy and convened high-level events to drive systemic change, foster collaboration and innovation, and advance universal early warning coverage at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties 30 (COP30) in Belém, Brazil.
Regional
September:
- Caribbean: CREWS presented highlights from its ongoing Caribbean Phase 2.0 project and its contribution to strengthening MHEWS programming in the region. CREWS representatives also joined other stakeholders as they considered the lessons to learn from the experience of Hurricane Melissa (2025) at the 7th Regional EWS Consortium in the Caribbean.
- Africa: CREWS explained its financing mechanisms for catalysing investment in early warning systems and presented on its African portfolio at the 2nd Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) which was convened by the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the theme “Accelerating Global Climate Solutions and Financing for Africa’s Resilient and Green Development”.
- Pacific: CREWS representatives showcased how the region was leveraging previous CREWS investment through its latest project in the region – the Scale-up Inclusive Early Warning and Action in the Pacific (SIEWAP) project. Pacific Meteorological Council (PMC) out-of-session meeting focused on strengthening inclusive early warning systems and actions, hosted by the Solomon Islands alongside a meeting of the Weather Ready Pacific Steering Committee.
Leading by example
CREWS demonstrated its leadership in the field of early warning systems by co-hosting several events during 2025, including:
- June: at GP2025 – and in collaboration with WMO – CREWS improved awareness and understanding of how to deliver people-centred and gender-responsive early warning systems by co-hosting with WMO an interactive Learning Lab for attendees of the Global Platform 2024 held in Geneva.
- November: CREWS supported the development of a global competency framework for impact-based forecasting which provides guidance on the core competencies, performance criteria and training resources needed to guide countries in delivering people-centred, risk-informed early warnings. The workshop was convened by WMO and CREWS and hosted by the Met Office in the United Kingdom, bringing together more than 30 experts from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, regional training institutions and international partners.
- December: CREWS showcased its work to support the most at-rsik countries, improving awareness and understanding of the financing pathways that are available and informing attendees of the analytical paper that has guided the development of operational procedures on CREWS programming in settings that are affected by fragility, conflict or violence1 at a workshop entitled “Early Warning and Early Action in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and in Conflict/Post-conflict Situations in Africa” which it co-delivered with UNDRR, WMO and IFRC.
- The new operational procedures for programming in contexts of fragility, conflict and/or violence were finalised at the end of 2025 and are now published CREWS (2026). CREWS Operational Procedures on Programming in Fragility, Conflict and Violence-affected Settings. Accessed April 2025: https://crews-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/265046-OMM_CREWS_operational-plan_PREPRESS_1-1.pdf