End to end: Multi-hazard early warning systems

The course offers to build the capacity of professionals to design, manage, evaluate and undertake improvements in people centered end-to-end early warning systems for hydro-meteorological and geological hazards and extreme events associated with climate change and variability. It builds upon ADPC’s two decades of experience in disaster management, facilitating regional cooperation and building capacities of disaster management institutions at all government levels, disaster management practitioners and communities. It extend to a decade of experience in institutionalizing weather and climate information applications for disaster mitigation and recently, in the implementation of Indian Ocean and South East Asia end-to-end early warning system for tsunami and hydro-meteorological hazards. Upon completing the course, participants will be able to:

1) understand operational mechanisms and procedures for the prediction, forecasting, monitoring and response to warning;
2) design end-to-end early warning systems for hydro-meteorological/geological hazards including, action planning for disaster preparedness, emergency management and social response with respect to early warning;
3) develop tools for early warning audits, identify current gaps in existing early warning systems and put in place enhanced people-centered early warning system with addressing the “last-mile” users;
4) harmonization of early warning system and disaster mitigation for effective disaster reduction;
5) develop tools to incorporate and assessment, hazard detection, monitoring, forecasting and warning, early warning dissemination and communication, community based early warning systems, building hazard-ready communities and Monitoring and evaluation of early warning system.