The document outlines the history and development of the UN/ISDR International Early Warning Programme from 1994 to the present. It discusses key conferences, frameworks, and recommendations that have shaped the early warning system. It also describes the main components and goals of the current early warning system, including building national people-centered early warning capacities, filling global gaps, and establishing institutional foundations for a comprehensive global early warning system.
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The Framework for the Multi-Hazard Global Early Warning System
1. UN/ISDR International Early
Warning Programme:
The Framework for the Multi-
Hazard Global Early Warning
System
2. WCNDR 1994) WCDR (2005)
Yokohama Strategy Hyogo Framework for Action
IDNDR ISDR (2000) Global Platform DRR (2007)
(1990-1999)
EWC’98 EWC II EWC III (2006)
(1998) (2003) Global Survey of EWS, EW Checklist
Potsdam 5 Work Areas Early Warning Projects
Recommendations
PPEW
(2004)
IEWP EW Stakeholder Interim AG First AG
2005 Consultation Meeting Meeting
WCDR 2006 Dec 2006 March 2006
3. Early Warning Conference II areas of work
1) Better integration of early warning into development processes and
public policies
2) Improved data availability for investigating, forecasting/predicting
and managing risks on different time scales
3) Improved capacities and strengthened early warning systems,
particularly in developing countries
4) Development of people-centred warning systems
5) Mechanisms for sustaining the early warning dialogue and
supporting the development and implementation of a programme
4. Recommendations from EWC III
Recommendation 1: Develop a globally comprehensive early
warning system, rooted in existing early
warning systems and capacities
Recommendation 2: Build national people-centred early warning
systems
Recommendation 3: Fill the main gaps in global early warning
capacities
Recommendation 4: Strengthen the scientific and data
foundations for early warning
Recommendation 5: Develop the institutional foundations for a
global early warning system
5. Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (PPEW)
Overall secretariat’s functions including support and coordination
for the IEWP with guidance provided by the IEWP Advisory Group
Partnership and alliance building
Advocacy and promotion of early warning and the IEWP
Development of web tools, clearing house and repository for
knowledge and information
Mobilizing resources for the IEWP
Monitoring progress in the implementation of early warning and the
IEWP
7. SG Report A/62/340 Global Survey of Early Warning Systems
September 14, 2007
Request that the ISDR secretariat, in collaboration with relevant actors,
undertake an assessment of the financing of early warning systems
Involve the major operational agencies through the International Early
Warning Programme
Request the ISDR secretariat to facilitate, in cooperation with all United
Nations system entities concerned, the development of globally
comprehensive early warning systems, rooted in and composed of Member
States systems, capacities and networks.
9. Tropical Cyclones
WMO/WWW
RSMC Miami NHC/TPCRSMC Tropical Cyclones Drought
New Delhi
ACMAD: African Center for
RSMC Nadi Meteorological Services Meteorological Application to
RSMC Tokyo Typhoon Center Development
RSMC La Reunion, Météo-France AGHRYMET/CILSS: Committee on
CHC Canadian Hurricane Centre Drought Control Sahel
BoM: Bureau of Meteorology Australia
CPHC Central Pacific Hurricane Center
JTWC Joint Typhoon Warning Center
DMCs: Drought Monitoring Centers for Floods
Eastern and Southern Africa WMO World Meteorological Organization
BoM Bureau of Meteorology Australia FASREP/WFP: World Food Programme NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric FAO/GIEWS: Food and Agriculture Administration
Administration Organisation FHRC Flood Hazard Research Center
IGADD/EWFIS: Early Warning and Food UDA University of Dartmouth
IRI International Research Institute for climate
Information System IRI International Research Institute for climate prediction
prediction
IRI: International Research Institute IWIN Interactive Weather Information Network
IWIN Interactive Weather Information Network Programme ESA European Space Agency
ASW Australian Severe Weather NDMC: National Drought Mitigation MC/UNEP Mekong Committee
CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Center BoM Bureau of Meteorology Australia
Satellite Studies NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric
UNISYS Administration
SADC: Drought Monitoring Center
USAID/FEWS: Famine Early Warning
System
USGS: U.S. Geological Survey
WMO/WWW: World Weater Watch
10. Tsunamis
IAPSO International Association for the Physical Science of the Oceans
ITIC International Tsunamis Information Center
NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
PTWC/NOAA/IOC Pacific Tsunamis Warning Center
WC&ATWC West Coast & Alaska Tsunamis Warning Center
ITSU Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific
Landslides
IAEG International Assoc. of Engineering Geology
ISSMFE Technical Committee on Landslides
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
Earthquakes AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organization
AGSO: Australian Geological Survey Organization
CERESIS: Centro Regional de Sismologia America del Sur Volcanoes
CNSS:Council of the National Seismic System
GFZ: Geoforschungzentrum Postdam VAAC Volcanic Ash Advisory Center,
GSS: Global Seismograph Services SIGVP Smithsonian Institute, Global Volcanism Program
IASPEI: International Association Seismology & Earth's Interior NOAA/NGDC/ National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
ISC: International Seismological Center IAVCEI International Association on Volcanology & Chemistry of Earth's
NEHP: National Earthquakes Hazard Programme Interior
NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center, Worldwide Earthquakes Database GFZ Geo Forschungs Zentrum Potsdam
NIED: Research Institute Earth Science & Disaster Prevention WOVO World Organization on Volcano Observatories
RADIUS: Risk Assessment Against Seismic Disaster OU The Open University
USGS: U. S. Geological Survey USGS U.S. Geological Survey
NASA/EOS Volcanology
11. Biodiversity Loss
DIVERSITAS/IUBS International Union of Biological Science Erosion
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing System FHRC Flood Hazard Research Center
WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Center EURIMAGE
GISP Global Invasive Species Programme ESA European Space Agency
WWF World Wide Fund NSERL National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
IUCN The World Conservation Union USGS U.S. Gelogical Survey
WRI World Resources Institute
BSP Biodiversity Support Program
CI Conservation International The Nature Conservancy
Traffic Fires
UNEP GRID-Geneva
GRID Sioux-Fall Joint Research Centre
NOAA
Deforestation Meteorological Service of Singapore (MSS)
WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Center NASA Instituto National de Pesquisas Espacial
GFW, WRI Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute IFFM/GTZ National Forest Fire Center of Russia
NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Firewatch
WFW/GOFC World Forest Watch Global Observations Forest ESA
Cover Canadian Forest Service
FAO Food & Agriculture Organisation USDA Forest Service
GAIA/GFCA Forest Conservation Archives National Interagency Fire Center
IUFRO International Union of Forestry Research Organizations Global Fire Monitoring Center
NFP/WSP New Forests Project World Seed Program Reuters
ESA European Space Agency Reliefweb
USAID/NRM/E Natural Resource Management/Environment
12. Water Pollution
GEMS/WATER/UNEP Global Emergency Monitoring System
GOOS/IOC Global Ocean Observing System
UNEP
SPREP/RSP South Pacific Regional Environment Program
BSEP/RSP Black Sea Environmental Program
CAR/RCU/UNEP/RSP Regional Coordinating Unit for the Caribbean Environment Chemical and Toxic Waste
Program IPCS International Program on Chemical Safety
CPPS/RSP Permanent Commission of the South Pacific USGS/NADP U.S. Geological Survey
RCU/EAR/UNEP/RSP Regional Coordinating Unit for the Eastern African Region CSHIB U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
SACEP/RSP South Asian Cooperative Environmental Programme CEFIC Conseil Europeen de l'Industrie Chimique
UNEP/RSP Water Branch North West Pacific FEERC Federal Environmental Emergency Response Center of
PERGSA /RSP Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Environment Program Roshydromet
ROPME/RSP Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
UNEP/RSP Water Branch West and Central Africa
UNEP/RSP Water Branch South West Atlantic Oil Spills
EAS/RCU/UNEP/RSP Regional Coordinating unit for the East Asian ITOPF International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation
MEDU/ UNEP/RSP Coordinating Unit for the Mediterranean Action plan NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
GIPME/IOC of UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission TSS Tromsoe Saellite Station
NEAR/GOOS North-East Asian Region Global Ocean Observing System CETEMAR, S.L. Centro de Estudios Technico Maritimos
AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program ESA European Space Agency
JRC/EI Joint Research Center, Environment Institute CSA Canadian Space Agency
Nuclear Pollution Air Pollution
AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organization WMO/GAW World Meteorological Organization Global Atmosphere
GERMON/GEMS/UNEP Global Environmental Radiation Monitoring Network Watch
FEERC Federal Environmental Emergency Response Center of Roshydromet GEMS/AIR/WHO Urban Air Quality Monitoring Project / WHO
GNIP/IAEA/WMO Global Network Isotopes in Precipitation BAPMon Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network
IAEA International AtomicEnergy Agency CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
PIDC Prototype International DataCenter USGS/NADP U.S. Geological Survey
JRC/EI Joint ResearchCenter, Environment Institute JRC/EI Joint Research Center, Environment Institute
EMEP Cooperative Program for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Long
Range Air
Pollutants in Europe
13. IEWP Coordinating Committee
IEWP Secretariat
The Early Warning Forum
Membership database, discussion lists, on-line library, calendar, publications
14. Benefits and Added Values of IEWP
IEWP provides added values to its partners by building on their on-going
activities on early warning.
Common agendas
More effective, wider information flow
Better focus on integrated people-centred early warning systems
Wider recognition of early warning’s role in meeting development
goals
Systematically demonstrate the financial perspective of early warning
(e.g. good for investment)
15. Shortcomings of the End-to-End System
• Focus tends to remain on the hazard
• Different hazards are typically dealt with by separate
institutions
• Dominance of the expert can lead to difficulties
• Role of research and knowledge from outside is often
not acknowledged.
• Little engagement or empowerment of those at risk in the
design and operation
• Few systematic mechanisms to improve the system.
• Weak public engagement and recognition
16. Key Ingredients
The right to know
Multidimensional analysis
Investment
Build on existing local structures
Build on existing and appropriate information
systems
Local ownership
Building leadership
Accountability to act
Local knowledge of indicators
Schools
People Centered EWS
Reliable
Reach the entire population even in remote areas
Part of a chain