Standards, Guidelines and Tools

General standards and guidelines

• Developing Early Warning Systems: A Checklist, March 2006 
• Natural Hazard Awareness and Disaster Risk Reduction-OECD Policy Handbook, 2010 
• WMO Guidelines on Multi-hazard Impact-based Forecast and Warning Services, 2015
• CREWS Proposed Set of Metrics for Measuring Access and Effectiveness of Early Warning Systems, November 2016
• Technical guidance for monitoring and reporting on progress in achieving the global targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, December 2017
• Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems: A Checklist, May 2017
• IFRC Guiding Principles

Disaster Risk Knowledge / Risk-informed system design

• Guidelines on the Definition and Monitoring of Extreme Weather and Climate Events, December 2015
• Guidance for Recording and Sharing Disaster Damage and Loss Data, 2015

Detection, monitoring, analysis and forecasting of the hazards and possible consequences / Monitoring and warning service

• WMO Ste-by-step Guidelines for Establishing a National Framework for Climate Services, 2018
• WMO Manual on the Global Data-processing and Forecasting System: Annex IV to the WMO Technical Regulation, 2017
• Manual on Marine Meteorological Services – Volume I
• Guidelines on early warning systems and application of nowcasting and warning operations
• Guideline on Monitoring and Reporting the Impact of Sand and Dust Storms through the Sendai Framework Monitoring

Warning dissemination and communication / Communication and dissemination

• International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Manuel for Measuring ITC Acces and Use by Households and Individuals, 2014
• WMO Guidelines for Implementation for Common Alterting Protocol (CAP) Enable Emergency Alterting, 2013
• WMO Guidelines on International and Cross-border collaboration in the warning process, 2011
• WMO Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers, 2010
• WMO Guidelines on Communicating Forecasting Uncertainty, 2008
• WMO Guidelines on Weather Broadcasting and the Use of Radio for Delivery of Weather Information, 2005
• ​WMO Guidelines on Cross-Border Exchange of Warnings, 2003
• WMO Guidelines on Improving Public Understandings of and Response to Warnings, 2002
• The ICT Development Index (IDI): conceptual framework and methodology, 2015

Preparedness and response capabilities / Ability to respond

• WMO Guide to Implementation of Education and Training Standards in Meteorology and Hydrology, volume I – Meteorology, 2015
• WMO Guidelines for Creating a Memorandum of Understanding and a Standard Operating Procedure between a National Meteorological or Hydrological Service and a Partner Agency, 2012
• UNISDR School emergency and disaster preparedness: guidance note, 2010
• UNISDR Disaster prevention for schools: guidance for education sector decision-makers, November 2008
• WMO Guidelines in capacity building strategies in Public Weather Services, 2007
• WMO Public Weather Services Strategy for Developing Public Education and Outreach, 2006
• WMO Guidelines on Integrating Severe Weather Warnings Into Disaster Risk Management, 2005
• WMO Guidelines in Quality Management Procedures and Practices for Public Weather Services, 2005

Standards, Guidelines and Tools

• Practical Action and Early Warning Systems
• Nepal’s Ingenious Solution
• Peru’s Ingenious Solution
• Gender Transformative Early Warnings Systems
• Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems a Policy Brief
• Gender and Early Warning Systems: Peru
• Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems: Nepal
• Toward Disasbility Transformative Early Warning Systems
• AASCTF Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study
• AASCTF Policy Brief