Implementing hazard early warning systems

The purpose of this report is to provide guidance to World Bank staff involved in the implementation of hydrometeorological-related early warning systems through the modernization of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs). It considers the practical implementation of multi-hazard early warning; and how some of these best practices in multi-hazard early warning can be adapted to the World Bank’s clients in developing and least developed countries. It states that weather hazards and related events such as hurricanes, heat waves, cold waves, windstorms, floods, and droughts jointly cause more economic damage and loss of life than other natural disasters.