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Early warning

An integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, disaster risk assessment, communication and preparedness activities systems and processes that enables individuals, communities, governments, businesses and others to take timely action to reduce disaster risks in advance of hazardous events.

Latest Early warning additions in the Knowledge Base

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Despite what you might hear, weather prediction is getting better, not worse

Weather prediction has actually improved in recent years. And there are exciting developments on the horizon involving artificial intelligence. But the effect of future climate change on weather and seasonal prediction is not yet well understood.
Conversation Media Group, the
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The role of anticipatory action in protracted food crises

This study sought to understand how and when can development, climate change and humanitarian actors best support households to protect the livelihoods and wellbeing in the face of repeated or ongoing food crises forecasted to worsen?
Flood Refuge
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Early warning systems: Sharing technology to combat climate change in South Asia

Early warning systems are crucial for reducing climate risks in South Asia, but effective implementation relies on regional cooperation and standardised data sharing
The Third Pole
Equipment on a farm
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Early warnings for all: Monitoring progress

WMO developed the Rapid Assessment of Hazard Monitoring and Forecasting Capacity as a methodology to assess its Members’ capabilities along eight elements of the hydrometeorological value chain.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Child centered early warning systems: Examples and good practice

This document outlines examples of Save the Children’s experience with child-centred early warning systems, linked to the four pillars of the Early Warning for All initiative.
Timorese women working
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Anticipatory mapping for climate resilience in Timor Leste

What if the place you were looking for could not be found on any map? Not because it's hidden, but because it was never mapped. And what if people in need were living in unmapped places?
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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The economics of acting early: Evidence of climate and disaster actions in the Pacific

The Australia Pacific Climate Partnership commissioned the Economics of Acting Early research to generate evidence on the value of early actions in reducing the impact of climate change and disaster events in the Pacific.
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Linking Nepal’s social protection programs with anticipatory action

This report and its brief present the learnings from a workshop organized in the context of a project aiming to link social protection programs (SPP) and anticipatory action (AA) in Nepal.

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