Early Warning Systems best practices contest in the Caribbean

Best Practices Contest

Early Warning Systems in the Caribbean

The project “Strengthen integrated and cohesive preparedness capacity at a regional, national and community level in the Caribbean” supports concrete actions for an effective early warning system, as well as aims to improve information management and operational capacity for an improved preparedness mechanism for the Caribbean Regional Response. Working with Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Cuba at a national and community level, and with regional early warning and response actors at the Caribbean level, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent (IFRC) are partnering with the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Union (ECHO) to reduce the risk of disasters in the region. 

As part of the activities of the project “Strengthen integrated and cohesive preparedness capacity at a regional, national and community level in the Caribbean” and with the aim of encouraging best practices and knowledge sharing about response and preparedness among the islands of the Caribbean, UNDP jointly with its partners opens the current Call for Early Warning Systems good practices. The Call responds to the primary need of strengthening south-south cooperation. Furthermore, the call is an opportunity to offer additional visibility to the progress done by countries and its National Disaster Management Offices, to learn from their peers in the region and to develop new ideas for additional improvement of the national capacities.  

Targeted Countries 

All countries in the Caribbean are invited to participate in the Call for EWS good practices 

EWS good practices contribute to the CDM strategy and develop one or more of the 4 pillars for an effective early warning system:

1) risk knowledge,

2) monitoring & warning service,

3) dissemination & communication,

4) response capability.

The selected 4 good practices will be presented in a series of the 2 webinars. Once all webinars have been produced, the winner will be selected among the 4 presented good practices. UNDP will open a public voting which will be jointly considered with the evaluation of representatives of the REWS Consortium, UNDRR and CREWS and implementing partners based on the established criteria to select the best “good practice”. The winner will win the production of a video to showcase its good practice in the CDM Conference film festival.

All countries in the Caribbean are encouraged to share a small concept note (maximum 3 pages), until 23 September 2019, 23:59 Panama time.

The proposal should be submitted to Almudena Montoliu almudena.montoliu@undp.org and Karold Guzman karold.guzman@undp.org