Goal
Our priority is to help dramatically reduce the number of people killed by natural hazards by 2030.
Mobilizing national and regional capacity to generate and communicate multi-hazard early warnings and risk information before a hazard becomes deadly – is key.
Warnings must lead to people taking timely life-saving action. They are more likely do that if they know what a disaster could do to them physically. Or mean economically.
We use a roadmap of interconnected national, regional, and global outcomes/targets? to guide our work.
- Increased prioritization of and investment in early warnings
- More accurate and timely weather forecasts and early warning
- Universal access to early warning and response
Are we making a difference?
To gauge if we are on track, we monitor progress on national and regional programme outputs:
- Improved national hydrometeorological services, including through long-term delivery strategies and development plans
- Developed and accessible risk information to guide early warning systems and climate and weather services
- Strengthened common alerting protocols and information and communication technology
- Strengthened and accessible preparedness and response plans with operational procedures outlining early warning dissemination processes
- Developed early warning knowledge products and awareness programmes
- Provision of gender-sensitive training and capacity building programmes
- Increased institutional and human capacity at regional WMO and intergovernmental organizations to provide climate and weather services to LDCs and SIDS
- Increased and better coordinated early warning investments to tackle gaps
We measure our impact against targets set in 3 global agreements
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Paris Climate Change Agreement
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030, in particular, Targets A and G
Metric Indicator
We use metrics and indicators to evaluate effectiveness.
| Loss of life | # of deaths and missing persons in LDCs and SIDS attributed to hydro meteorological events, per 100’000 population |
| Forecasting and warning capacity | Type of hazards, which pose a risk of life loss in the country, for which forecasting and warning capacity is available |
| ‘Level of Service’ category of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) in LDCs and SIDS | |
| Access to early warning | # of people living in areas covered by forecasts and warnings for a given hazard |
| # of women having access to communication channels (the ICT tools) used for early warning | |
| # of households and individuals with access to and use of ICT in LDCs and SIDS | |
| Use of risk information | # of LDCs and SIDS that have generated risk information to enhance the early warning system |
| Capacity to disseminate warnings | # of LDCs and SIDS communicating warnings through common alerting procedures |
| Capacity to prepare for and respond to warnings | # of LDCs and SIDS using standard operating procedures (SOPs) to issue warnings for forecasted hazards |
CREWS impact features
