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CREWS in Africa in 2025

  • 43 national plans, strategies or legislations on early warnings approved and/or implemented
  • 607 risk maps, advisory and other warning products are available, with 427 produced in/for West Africa
  • 1105 CAP alerts issued, of which 322 were issued by Chad

The continent of Africa is home to more than two thirds of LDCs, more than half of countries experiencing conflict and close to half of the countries experiencing institutional and social fragility.1 The Africa region – as defined by the United Nations2 – has also lagged other regions in terms of the coverage and comprehensiveness of multi-hazard early warning systems. Recognizing this, the demand for CREWS support is high, both at the national and regional levels and in 2025 there were 13 ongoing multi-year projects across the continent. This included 8 national projects and 5 operating at the regional level, as well as 7 Accelerated Support Window actions, one of which is benefiting every country on the continent by virtue of supporting the African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD). In recent years, significant improvements have been reported across Africa, with more than half of the countries in the United Nations’ Africa region now reporting the existence of these life-saving systems. Even more dramatic is the improvement in comprehensiveness scores in the region, rising from 0.27 in 2015 to 0.47 in 2025.3 Much of this improvement is thanks to CREWS support. For example, in 2025 alone, the multi-year projects collectively produced 25 national plans, strategies, policies or legislation, establishing the enabling environment – for example through robust governance frameworks – needed for the development and implementation of effective, inclusive, people-centred early warning systems. Similarly, the 28 assessments carried out during 2025 establish the status of these systems and identify the improvements that are needed. In the pages that follow, highlights from 2025 are presented for each project.

  1. World Bank. Classification of Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations. Accessed April 2026: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/fragilityconflictviolence/brief/classification-of-fragile-and-conflict-affected-situations
  2. In reports from the United Nations, African Arab States are included in the ‘Arab States’ region, not the ‘Africa’ region.
  3. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and World Meteorological Organization (2025).
    Global status of multi-hazard early warning systems. Geneva, Switzerland. Accessed April 2026: https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/69684

Burkina Faso Strengthening national capacities for EWS Service Delivery in Burkina Faso

CREWS webpage: CREWS Burkina Faso

Implementing Partners: WMO

Operational Partners: Agence Nationale de la Météorologie (ANAM); Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET)/Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC); AGRHYMET Regional Climate Centre (RCC) Niamey; Direction des Études et des Informations sur l’Eau (DEIE); Fundació URV; Global Information System Centre (GISC) Casablanca, Morocco (hosted by Direction Générale de la Météorologie (DGM) Maroc); L’Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles du Burkina Faso (INERA); Météo-France; L’Università di Firenze (UNIFI); and WMO Regional Training Centre (RTC) Niamey

Status: Ongoing; county is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 2.2 million

Highlight from 2025:

US$ 33 million

leveraged

With the technical work on the project largely completed by the end of 2021,1 the project continued to provide technical advisory support to the US$ 33 million scale-up GCF project until June 2025. A highlight from 2025 is the extension of the project to the end of 2026 to enable training, optimal integration of tools and operational support. This enables technical support from WMO to continue, complementing the investments made by the other project.

Chad Chad Hydromet and Early Warning Services

CREWS webpage: CREWS Chad

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partners: ANADER; ANAM; DGPC; DRE; and SISAAP

Status: Completed in 2025; country has high levels of institutional and social fragility

Value: US$ 3.2 million

Highlight from 2025:

US$ 34 million

leveraged

CREWS funding in Chad has successfully built technical and institutional capacity to the extent that WMO has transferred implementation funds to the national meteorological agency (Agence Nationale de la Météorologie, ANAM). With a strong sense of national ownership, collaboration across active projects is very well-coordinated, enabling the country to maximize the benefits of funding from the World Bank (US$ 10 million under PILIER), UNDP (US$ 13 million from the GFC FP258), WMO (US$ 5 million from the Adaptation Fund) and WFP (US$ 6 million from SOFF).

[Link to Chad feature]

Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Early Warning Services

CREWS webpage: CREWS DRC

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partner: Agence Nationale de Météorologie et de Télédétection par Satellite (Mettelsat)

Status: Ongoing; county is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 3.1 million

Highlight from 2025:

US$ 300 million

leveraged

Thanks to CREWS support which has paved the way to new funding opportunities, the government is implementing two important projects which will build the country’s resilience to climate shocks. Together, the projects are strengthening the country’s capacity to better prepare for – and respond to – climate emergencies by improving its infrastructure, systems and services. CREWS resources – including the knowledge and experience of its implementing and operational partners – were critical in mobilizing the international technical expertise needed to inform the design and implementation of the projects. For example, CREWS funding enabled specialists from GFDRR to carry out gap analyses and conduct stakeholder consultations in four2 cities.

Djibouti CREWS Djibouti

CREWS webpage: Djibouti

Implementing Partners: UNDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partners: Agence Nationale de la Météorologie de Djibouti (ANM); Centre d’Études et de Recherche de Djibouti (CERD); Croissant-Rouge Djiboutien/ Red Crescent Society of Djibouti (RCSD); and Secrétaire Exécutif Chargé de la Gestion des Risques et des Catastrophes (SEGRC)

Status: Ongoing

Value: US$ 3.7 million

Highlight from 2025:

4 multi-hazard assessments, analyses and other mapping of needs, gaps priorities that inform investment requirements on early warning

Four assessments were carried out in Djibouti, providing important context for the EW4All Roadmap and informing other project activities. This included a technical assessment of the forecasting capabilities of the Agence Nationale de la Météorologie de Djibouti; a comprehensive gap analysis of Djibouti’s early warning system; Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (EVCA) in targeted communities by Croissant-Rouge Djiboutien (the Red Crescent Society of Djibouti); and a gap analysis of disaster risk knowledge through a national workshop convened by UNDRR where government representatives validated the findings.

Malawi Strengthening Risk informed planning, Hydro-Meteorological and Early Warning Services in Malawi

CREWS webpage: Website

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partners: ACT; DCCMS; District Council; DWR; DoDMA; IFRC; RCCC; and MRCS

Status: Ongoing

Value: US$ 3 million

Highlight from 2025:

US$ 257.3 million

leveraged

Building on the success of CREWS and its foundational work in the country, Malawi has secured significant funding for strengthening hydrometeorological and early warning systems in the country. This includes US$ 240 million from the World Bank through: the Regional Climate Resilience Program for Eastern and Southern Africa 2 (RPCR2) and related projects; the Watershed Services Improvement Project for Malawi (MWASIP); and the Malawi Resilience and Disaster Risk Management Project (MRDRMP) as well as funding from the South Africa Development Community/ African Union (US$ 15 million) and the Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) programme’s ActionFirstTM initiative (US$ 2.3 million).

[Link to Malawi feature]

Mali Mali – Hydrological and Meteorological Services Modernization

CREWS webpage: CREWS Mali

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partners: Agence Nationale de la Météorologie du Mali (Mali Météo); Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC); Direction Nationale de l’Hydraulique (DNH); and Système d’Alerte Précoce (SAP)

Status: Completed; county is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 3.3 million

Highlight from 2025:

2 multi-hazard assessments, analyses and other mapping of needs, gaps priorities that inform investment requirements on early warning: 2

Led by GFDRR, in 2025, CREWS Mali supported a study on the socio-economic impacts of flooding in Mali, using a robust methodology that combined geospatial analysis, administrative data from multiple ministries and household survey results. Government representatives were trained to apply this baseline analysis to strengthen preparedness and inform future impact assessments. In parallel, GFDRR commissioned a water resources study in the Haut Bani River Basin in which hydrological and hydraulic modelling was used to assess flood impacts and inform recommendations for water resources development and flood mitigation. The findings – disseminated in June 2025 – generated strong stakeholder interest and informed discussions on reducing flood risks and advancing sustainable water management in the basin.

Niger Niger 2.0: Strengthening and Modernizing Early Warning Services

CREWS webpage: CREWS Niger

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead), WMO and UNDRR

Operational Partners: Agence Nationale pour la Société de l’Information (ANSI); Cellule de Coordination du Système d’Alerte Précoce et de Prévention des Catastrophes (CC/SAP); Direction de la Solidarité Nationale, Ministère de la Population, de l’Action Sociale et de la Solidarité; Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC); Direction Générale de l’Hydraulique (DGH); and Direction Nationale de la Météorologie (DMN)

Status: Ongoing; county is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 3.9 million

Highlight from 2025:

1 coordination mechanism strengthened or established to enhance collaboration on early warning among national or regional institutions: 1

In Niger, CREWS has strengthened coordination of EW4All activities by bringing together stakeholders from across the early warning ecosystem. Representatives of key institutions – together with development partners in the country – have demonstrated their commitment to implementing EW4All in Niger. This inclusive, multi-sectoral and whole-of-society approach ensures strategic alignment and promotes coherence across all sectors nationally.

Togo Togo – Hydromet and Early Warning Services

CREWS webpage: CREWS Togo

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partners: ANPC; ANAMET; and DRE

Status: Completed

Value: US$ 2.4 million

Highlight from 2025:

US$ 242 million

leveraged

Togo has secured significant funding to scale up early warning systems across the country. Togo was the first country to successfully apply to the Green Climate Fund using the GCF-CREWS scaling-up framework with US$ 27 million approved in February 2025: SAP048. Studies for flood control in Lomé informed the Togo Urban Transformation Program (US$ 200M) financed by the World Bank and the WMO Public Investment Program (US$ 15 million).

[Link to Togo feature]

West Africa West Africa Region: Seamless operational forecast systems and technical assistance for capacity building 3

CREWS webpage: CREWS West Africa

Implementing Partners: WMO

Operational Partners: AGRHYMET; École Africaine de la Météorologie et de l’Aviation Civile (EAMAC RTC); GISC and Regional Weather Centre (RWC) Casablanca (hosted by DGM Maroc); HRC; Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) Dakar (hosted by Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie, ANACIM, Senegal); and SMHI

Location: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo

Status: Complete; 6 countries are affected by violent conflict and 2 have high levels of institutional and social fragility

Value: US$ 5.3 million

Highlight from 2025:

US$ 174 million

leveraged

Originally due to complete at the end of 2024, a time-extension was requested to align with a project funded by the Green Climate Fund which runs until the end of 2026. In addition, the CREWS Steering Committee invited WMO – and its operational partners – to make preparations for a further phase of investment as a way of continuing support to West African regional centres. In the meantime, the extension of the flash flood guidance system (FFGS) from 3 to 24 countries across West and Central Africa was paused when support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was interrupted in February 2025, with WMO leading the preparation of a new technical design to support the countries with similar support without contributions from USAID.

Central Africa Central Africa – Seamless approach to forecasting and warning for meteorological, hydrological and climate extremes

CREWS webpage: CREWS Central Africa

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead), WB GFDRR and UNDRR

Operational Partners: AEMET; AGRHYMET; Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Centre d’Application et de Prévision Climatologique de l’Afrique Centrale (CAPC-AC) hosted by RCC Douala, Cameroon; GISC Casablanca; RSMC Dakar; and SMHI

Location: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Sao Tomé e Principe

Status: Ongoing; 3 countries are affected by violent conflict and 4 have high levels of institutional and social fragility

Value: US$ 4.9 million

Highlight from 2025:

6 coordination mechanisms strengthened or established to enhance collaboration on early warning among national or regional institutions (2 regional and 1 national)

With CREWS support, a Regional Situation Room was established for the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) together with 4 National EW4All Coordination mechanisms.

In Douala, Cameroon, staff working in the ECCAS Climate Application and Prediction Centre (CAPC) Situation Room have issued 26 multi-hazard bulletins which provide regional guidance and advisories for warnings issued at the national level. These were accompanied by more than 400 maps highlighting hazards such as extreme rainfall, drought, malaria, dry air and convective storm risks. While some countries have progressed with issuing their own warning bulletins in CAP format during 2025 – and on request – multi-hazard and targeted bulletins were also prepared for Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Equatorial Guinea as a way to fill a capacity gap. In a bid to further strengthen regional expertise, the potential Regional Forecast Support Centre Yaoundé – under the Direction Nationale de la Météorologie – is now taking the lead for the Severe Weather Forecasting Programme in Central Africa.

East Africa Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Early Warning Services in the East Africa Region

CREWS webpage: CREWS East Africa

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead), WB GFDRR and UNDRR

Operational Partners: CIMA Foundation; East African Community (EAC); Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI); ICPAC; and United Kingdom Met Office

Location: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania

Status: Ongoing; 3 countries are affected by violent conflict and 1 has high levels of institutional and social fragility

Value: US$ 7 million

Highlight from 2025:

2 coordination mechanisms strengthened or established to enhance collaboration on early warning among national or regional institutions

In 2025, WMO enabled regional meteorological coordination by supporting the latest Heads of Meteorological Services Meeting in East Africa. This regular forum serves as a crucial platform for regional cooperation and coordination relating to early warning, such as the development and alignment of national and regional strategies for numerical weather prediction, encouraging peer-to-peer learning and promoting coherence across projects. In addition, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) hosted the Anticipatory Action Dialogues Platform, a critical mechanism that has promoted anticipatory action and strengthened regional collaboration for early warning and early action in the region.

Greater Horn of Africa Greater Horn of Africa – Strengthening early warning and early action systems for meteorological, hydrological and climate extremes

CREWS webpage: CREWS Greater Horn of Africa

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead), WMO and UNDRR

Operational Partner: IFRC

Location: Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan

Status: Ongoing; 3 countries are affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 5.2 million

Highlight from 2025:

6 national plans, strategies and legislations on early warnings approved and/or implemented

During 2025, the Implementing Partners have worked collaboratively to strengthen the legislative and institutional frameworks to support and sustain multi-hazard early warning systems in Somalia. Key documents developed include draft legislation to establish a national meteorological and climate services agency, the development of a Service Dissemination Strategy and the development and endorsement of an EW4All Roadmap. This is complemented by the implementation of guidance on how to mainstream gender within early warning systems.

South-West Indian Ocean Strengthening Operational Forecasting & Early Warning Systems in the South-West Indian Ocean (CREWS SWIO)

CREWS webpage: CREWS SWIO

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead), WB GFDRR and UNDRR

Operational Partners: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC); RSMC La Réunion; RTC and RSMC Pretoria; RWC Casablanca; and the meteorological, hydrological, civil protection and disaster risk reduction services from Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique and Seychelles

Location: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique and Seychelles

Status: Ongoing; 1 country is affected by violent conflict and 1 has high levels of institutional and social fragility

Value: US$ 4 million

Highlight from 2025:

2 national plans, strategies and legislations on early warnings approved and/or implemented

A coherent approach to monitoring – and reporting – the status of early warning in Seychelles has been introduced thanks to technical support from WMO to support the government in making updates to the meteorological act in the Seychelles. The revised act led to the implementation of a joint reporting mechanism – led by Seychelles Meteorological Agency – to simultaneously report on the progress of the National Framework for Climate Services, their National Strategic Plan and EW4All implementation.

  1. The project was featured on pages 44-46 of the CREWS Annual Report 2024, accessed April 2026: https://crews-initiative.org/reports/annual-report-2024/crews-in-africa/#burkina
  2. Kinshasa, Kalemie, Bukavu and Uvira.
  3. The CREWS West Africa Project was featured on pages 40-43 of the CREWS Annual Report 2024, also available online, accessed April 2026: https://crews-initiative.org/reports/annual-report-2024/crews-in-africa/#west-africa

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CREWS in Asia-Pacific in 2025

Asia-Pacific Region highlights at the end of 2025:

  • 33 national plans, strategies or legislations on early warnings approved and/or implemented
  • 20 multi-hazard assessments, analyses and other mapping of needs, gaps and priorities that inform investment requirements on early warning

Whilst in 2025, the Asia-Pacific region had the highest reported coverage of multi-hazard early warning systems globally, both technical capacity and system comprehensiveness vary significantly.1 The region is also vulnerable to a multitude of hazards and home to a number of countries experiencing violent conflict or fragility, resulting in a high demand for CREWS support.

In the Asia and Pacific region, CREWS support has been primarily through regional multi-year projects, with three projects running in 2025 – in Southeast Asia and the Pacific as well as a new project starting in South Asia in 2025 – and with a drought-focused project in the Pacific starting in 2026.2 In addition to this regional work, CREWS has supported the development of early warning systems in Afghanistan since 2019, adjusting its approach to best meet the needs of the technical institutions in the country and the communities that they serve.

Thanks to CREWS support, countries in the region have set in place strong foundations on which to build – or scale up – effective, inclusive and gender-responsive early warning systems, including the successes of community-based flood management systems in Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic. CREWS’ work in the region has achieved substantial momentum – the number of plans, strategies, policies and legislations developed and implemented with CREWS support reached 33 by the end of 2025, with half of those developed in the last year. Following the same trend is the number of assessments and diagnostics of gaps and needs – including those related to the delivery of EW4All – which almost doubled from 11 in 2024 to 20 in 2025. Across the region, as elsewhere, CREWS has catalysed EW4All activities through workshops, technical assessments and the development of EW4All Roadmaps.

Project highlights from across the region are reported in these pages, supplementing the project feature on CREWS’ work in Southeast Asia [Link to Southeast Asia feature].

Afghanistan Afghanistan – AF-ECLIM: Enhancing hydromet, early warning and climate Services for Resilience

CREWS webpage: CREWS Afghanistan

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead) and WMO

Operational Partners: Afghanistan Disaster Risk Management Authority (ANDMA); Afghanistan Meteorological Department (AMD); General Directorate of Water Resources (GDWR) under the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW); and Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL)

Status: Ongoing; 1 country is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 3.7 million

Highlight from 2025:

1 climate and weather information product co-designed to users’ needs by group representing vulnerable segments of exposed populations

Vulnerable communities in Afghanistan started receiving Flash Flood Bulletins in 2025 thanks to technical support from WMO and funded by CREWS. The provision of essential warnings for flash flood and precipitation-induced landslides has been made possible through the implementation of the Pakistan–Afghanistan Region Flash Flood Guidance System (PARFFGS). which has built on the strong foundations established with CREWS’ capacity strengthening work with the Afghanistan Meteorological Department.

Southeast Asia Reinforcing the capacities of meteorological and hydrological services and enhancing the early warning systems in Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic 1.0/2.0

CREWS webpage: CREWS Southeast Asia

Location: Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead), WB GFDRR and UNDRR

Operational Partners: ADPC; BMKG; CIMA Foundation; GWP; HRC; KICT; PIN; PADEK, RIMES; UniSQ; and WFP (Operational partners for Phase 2.0 are being identified)

Status: Phase 1.0 completed, Phase 2.0 initiated

Value: US$ 5.5 million (and US$ 7.8 million for Phase 2.0)

Highlight from 2025:

6 national plans, strategies and legislations on early warnings approved and/or implemented

In 2025 the Implementing Partners provided technical support to operational partners – and other stakeholders at national and local levels – to develop, finalize and endorse national plans related to early warnings. These plans provided a strong foundation for a second phase of CREWS support and an entry point for other investments. Strategic documents developed by project partners include: an endorsed EW4All Roadmap in Cambodia; and a Disaster Risk Reduction Action Plan for the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment in Laos People’s Democratic Republic. In addition, both countries now have Integrated Water Risk Management Plans and Drought Action Plans. In addition – and building on the successes of the first project – a follow-on project (Phase 2.0) was initiated in July 2025 and is ongoing.

[Link to Southeast Asia feature]

South Asia Unlocking South Asia Regional Synergies for Resilience Building through Enhanced Access to Early Warning Services – CREWS South Asia Project

CREWS webpage: CREWS South Asia

Implementing Partners: WB GFDRR (Lead), WMO and UNDRR

Operational Partners: Meteo Suisse; RIMES; University of Oxford; and University of Salford

Location: Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar and Nepal

Status: Initiated; 1 country is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 5.3 million

Highlight from 2025:

1 coordination mechanism strengthened or established to enhance collaboration on early warning among national or regional institutions (in progress)

The main objective of the project – which was initiated in December 2025 – is to strengthen regional collaboration for improved hydrometeorological and early warning services in South Asia by supporting the South Asia Hydromet Forum and in particular, members who are LDCs or SIDS. Working Groups under South Asia Hydromet Forum have regularly met virtually to develop strategic documents and workplans, setting strong foundations for the project to build upon.

Pacific Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Early Warning Systems in the Pacific (CREWS Pacific SIDS) Phase 2.0 and Phase 3.0: Scale[-]up Inclusive Early Warning and Action in the Pacific (SIEWAP)

CREWS webpage: CREWS Pacific SIDS 2.0

Location: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead), UNDRR and WB GFDRR (for Phase 2.0)

Operational Partners: BoM; Pacific Community (formerly the South Pacific Commission and still known as SPC); and Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Additional operational partners for Phase 3 include: International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC); National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA); and Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)

Status: Phase 2.0 completed, Phase 3.0 initiated; 5 countries have high levels of institutional and social fragility

Value: US$ 4.8 million (and US$ 5.60 million for Phase 3.0)

Highlight from 2025:

8 multi-hazard assessments, analyses and other mapping of needs, gaps priorities that inform investment requirements on early warning

Essential baseline data and technical assessments completed in 2025 have informed the design of CREWS’ third phase of investment in the region through the Scale-up Inclusive Early Warning and Action in the Pacific (SIEWAP), a 4-year project which started in April 2025. Six technical assessments of early warning systems and a GFDRR-led groundwater assessment in Samoa were undertaken in 2025. In addition – and as part of the Pacific SIDS 2.0 Project Steering committee meetings – an essential planning workshop was held with representatives from the technical agencies of all 14 countries to take stock of the capabilities and infrastructure of the agencies engaged in implementing and operating early warning systems. The assessment of technical gaps and priority needs was an important input to the detailed design of the SIEWAP project.

  1. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and World Meteorological Organization (2025).
    Global status of multi-hazard early warning systems. Geneva, Switzerland. Accessed April 2026: https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/69684
  2. CREWS’ Drought Resilience and Early Warning (DREW) project in the Pacific was initiated in January 2026.

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CREWS in the Caribbean in 2025

Caribbean Region highlights from 2025:

  • 4 coordination mechanisms strengthened or established to enhance collaboration on early warning
  • 4 assessments/analyses to inform early warning investments
  • 7 hazards being monitored across the region – severe weather, tropical cyclones, heavy rainfall, storm surges, flash flooding and strong winds

In the Caribbean, much of CREWS’ work has been at the regional level, leveraging the expertise and important role of regional groups like the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and regional institutions including the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO), the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) as well as regional offices and centres of United Nations System. Highlights from CREWS’ work in the region is the strengthening of regional collaboration, for example, through the Regional Early Warning Systems Consortium (REWSC) which has a strategic role in governance and coordination, the adoption of CAP and the scaling up of the Severe Weather Forecasting Programme beyond the Eastern Caribbean [link to Caribbean project feature]. Crucially, the benefits from CREWS’ regional work extend beyond the members of CARICOM, to include dependent territories and countries which are not members of CARICOM (for example, Cuba and the Dominican Republic).

Alongside its regional work, CREWS has provided targeted support to Haiti through a multi-year project as well as short-term interventions in Belize and Cuba through its Accelerated Support Window. In addition, a 12-month programme of technical assistance was initiated in the Eastern Caribbean in July 2025 with the aim of supporting the implementation of Cell Broadcast systems in the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and Grenadines.

Whilst highlights from CREWS’ work in the Caribbean during 2025 are noted here, this work is but a continuation of many years of dedicated support to the region which started in 2018. This includes an earlier phase of work across the Caribbean, which has been built in in Phase 2.0, as featured earlier Caribbean [link to Caribbean project feature].

Haiti Support of the Hydrometeorological Unit of Haiti (UHM) for sustainable operability and the implementation of a relevant and efficient hydrometeorological warning system

CREWS webpage: CREWS Haiti

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead)

Operational Partners: UNDP Haiti and Unité Hydrométéorologique d’Haïti (UHM); WFP Haiti; and EW4All Pillar Leads in Haiti

Status: Ongoing; 1 country is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 1.5 million

Highlight from 2025:

2 national plans, strategies and legislations on early warnings approved and/or implemented

In 2025, 2 key strategic documents relating to early warning were approved in Haiti, setting a clear direction for early warning investment in the country. The EW4All Roadmap – a national strategy for the roll out/ scale up of multi-hazard early warning systems in Haiti – was approved by the government with involvement from all EW4All pillar leads and national representatives. This was achieved despite a challenging political and security context, demonstrating the country’s commitment to the goal of EW4All. In addition, the Strategic Plan for the Hydrometeorological Unit of Haiti was updated with the support of a consultant, informed by the result of an independent evaluation of the last plan. A highlight of the new strategic plan – which is aligned with the EW4All Roadmap – is its focus on standards of inclusion, including gender.

Caribbean Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Multi-Hazard Early Warning Services in the Caribbean – Phase 2

CREWS webpage: CREWS Caribbean 2.0

Implementing Partners: WMO (Lead) and UNDRR

Operational Partners: Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA); Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH); and Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO)

Location: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago and 6 CARICOM Associate Members (the British Caribbean Territories of: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands) and Sint Maarten (and by extension, benefitting from regional developments: Cuba and the Dominican Republic)

Status: Ongoing; 1 country is affected by violent conflict

Value: US$ 7 million

Highlight from 2025:

1356 warnings issued in CAP format: 1356

With technical support from WMO, during 2025, countries and territories across the Caribbean have issued hundreds of CAP-compliant warnings. The CAP format enables official warnings – issued by registered national authorities – to be simultaneously transmitted across multiple channels. This was the result of CREWS investments in technical solutions (including the ClimWeb digital tools package which included a CAP editor), training and planning.

  • Anguilla: 53
  • Antigua and Barbuda: 14
  • Belize: 193
  • The Dominican Republic: 592
  • Jamaica: 364
  • Turks and Caicos: 68
  • Trinidad and Tobago: 72

[Link to Caribbean feature]

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Multi-country project in 2025

Multi-country EW4All multi-stakeholder accelerator in LDCs and SIDS

CREWS webpage: Website

Implementing Partners: UNDRR (Lead) and WMO (with support from IFRC and ITU)

Operational Partners: IFRC; ITU; and at the national level, the meteorological, hydrological, civil protection and disaster risk reduction services/agencies from Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nepal, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Kiribati

Countries supported: Comoros, Kiribati, Madagascar (see Box 4), Mauritius, Nepal, Solomon Islands and Tonga

Status: Ongoing; 3 countries have high levels of institutional and social fragility (Comoros, Kiribati and Solomon Islands)

Value: US$ 5.5 million

Highlight from 2025:

17 multi-hazard assessments, analyses and other mapping of needs, gaps priorities that inform investment requirements on early warning

Building on the initial assessment work completed in all seven countries in 2024, these were updated in 2025. Also in 2025, additional assessments were carried out by EW4All Pillar Leads, for example, National Cell Broadcast Readiness Assessments in four countries and an Enhanced Vulnerability Capacity Assessment in Kiribati.

Box 4. EW4All accelerator project provides targeted support to Madagascar

EW4All in Madagascar Madagascar faces significant vulnerability due to its high exposure to cyclones, heavy rainfall and floods with these events leading to loss of life and substantial economic loss, estimated as in excess of US$ 100 million each year.1 Its topography also presents a challenge, especially in terms of installing and maintaining hydrometeorological equipment and associated services over a large area with climatologically distinct zones.

Through the EW4All Accelerator Project, Madagascar has received targeted support to develop and implement plans for improving the coverage and comprehensiveness of its early warning systems. Madagascar was an early adopter of the EW4All Roadmap, which was validated and endorsed by the government in 2024. The assessments, workshops and technical support for this endeavour was jointly funded by two CREWS projects – the EW4All Accelerator and CREWS Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO). With a clear plan for EW4All implementation, CREWS has ensured the optimal use of donor money in the country by promoting coherence across multiple funders – for example, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund and the Systematic Observations Financing Facility – and across all 4 pillars.

During 2025, great progress was made across all of the EW4All pillars:

  1. Disaster Risk Knowledge: A series of activities were completed including the development of a Pillar 1 workplan and a framework for improving the production, access and use of risk knowledge (including capacity building plans). A multi-stakeholder risk knowledge workshop was held and a review of financing of disaster risk reduction (including early warning systems) was completed.
  2. Detection, observation, monitoring, analysis and forecasting: a baseline capacity assessment was completed and a strategic plan developed for the Direction Générale de la Météorologie. In addition, essential equipment was repaired, including the workstation through which forecasting staff receive meteorological observations and model data.
  3. Warning dissemination and communication: ITU completed an assessment of Madagascar’s readiness to implement cell-broadcast technology, developed a National Emergency Telecommunications Plan, produced a Disaster Connectivity Map and completed the preparatory work for CAP implementation.
  4. Preparedness and response capabilities: the Malagasy Red Cross Society – with support from the IFRC – carried out a Pillar 4 Maturity Index gap analysis and developed an action plan. It also undertook a community perception survey, held a national simulation exercise and developed early action protocols for cyclones, floods and droughts.

“Meteorology, hydrology and climate contribute to the development of the country. Quality observation, accurate forecasts and efficient warnings enable preparedness and timely response, which contribute to reduce losses and safeguard human lives. Early warnings are not approximate messages, they are public services built upon norms, observations, analysis and institutional responsibilities”.

Dina Hariniry Rakotomalala, Secrétaire Générale,
Ministère des Transports et de la Météorologie de Madagascar

  1. UNDRR. Madagascar: Improving Infrastructure Resilience to Reduce Climate-Related Economic Losses, January 2025. Accessed April 2026: https://www.undrr.org/resilient-infrastructure/madagascar

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