Danish Support to EW4All

Project

Project background

The four-year Denmark support to EW4All Project aims to enhance climate resilience and early warning systems in Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania. With a grant of CHF 4.9 million from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, this initiative addresses recurring natural hazards, such as flash floods and droughts, that significantly impact these countries, causing loss of life and substantial economic and material damage.

The Danish support project will facilitate immediate actions required to implement an integrated approach across the four pillars of EW4All: disaster risk knowledge; detection, observations, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting; warning dissemination and communication; and preparedness and response capabilities. It will also strengthen anticipatory action through the WMO Coordination Mechanism (WCM), support the design, delivery, and uptake of climate and risk information services, and assist in managing the global enabling environment of EW4All.

The main activities of the project will involve the implementation of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) in the five target countries. This includes the production, analysis, interpretation, and use of climate and risk information to strengthen MHEWS. The countries will also develop capacities to monitor and forecast priority hazards, generate and disseminate actionable early warning responses, and enhance community capacities to respond to, prevent, or mitigate the impacts of climate-related hazards. Furthermore, the project will foster an enabling policy environment to ensure effective coordination between relevant agencies and stakeholders in these countries.

Objective(s)

The overall goal of the EW4All initiative is to ensure that every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within five years (by 2027). The proposed Danish project will contribute to EW4All by supporting the immediate actions that are required to roll-out the EW4All integrated approach across the four pillars in the five target LCDs in Africa. In addition, further contributions will be made to strengthen anticipatory action to hydrometeorological hazards in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts (FCVs), leveraging the WMO Coordination Mechanism (WCM); to support the design, delivery and uptake of climate and risk information services; and to support the global level enabling environment and management of EW4All.

Outputs

Component 1 - National Early Warning Systems in 5 African LDCs

  • Output 1.1: All countries produce and use risk information that informs and strengthens MHEWS, resulting in actionable and risk-informed warnings and targeted response.
  • Output 1.2: Empower countries to monitor and forecast priority hazards by improving their observational networks, capacity on calibration of meteorological instruments as well as their capabilities to disseminate and use impact-base, actionable early warnings to save lives, protect property and livelihoods
  • Output 1.3: All countries ensure that clear and understandable alerting messages reach all those at risk, allowing to take the necessary actions to save lives, livelihoods and to support longer-term resilience
  • Output 1.4: Strengthened preparedness to respond at all levels leads to prevention or mitigation of the impacts of hazards and crises, including climate-related events
  • Output 1.5: Enabling environment in place
     

Component 2 - Supporting Early Warning and Early/Anticipatory Action and Conflict-affected Contexts (FCVs)

  • Output 2.1: Authoritative information and advice strengthen anticipatory action in FCVs for IDPs
  • Output 2.2: Authoritative information and advice strengthen anticipatory action in FCVs for Refugees
     

Component 3 - Enhancing Climate Science Information for Climate Action

  • Output 3.1: Enhanced climate science and risk information analysis for user-tailored and inclusive climate action in the partner countries
  • Output 3.2: Strengthened human and institutional capacities to co-develop the climate science information for climate action


Component 4 - Effective Global and Regional Coordination and Support by WMO for EW4All

  • Output 4.1: Global, national and local institutions actively participating in the project and EW4All coordinated activities, as evidenced by signed agreements or formal commitments and project and EW4All monitoring and reporting

Expected outcomes

Denmark’s support to EW4All project will be divided into four main outcomes: 

  1. Implement National Early Warning Systems in 5 African LDCs 
  2. Support Early Warning and Early/Anticipatory Action in Fragile and Conflict-affected Contexts (FCVs) 
  3. Enhance climate science information for climate action
  4. Effectively support global and regional coordination for EW4All 
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Ongoing
Total Funding:
CHF 4,900,000
WMO Long-Term Goal(s):
  • Climate Resilience and Adaptation
  • Capacity Development
  • Disaster Risk Reduction
Focus Area(s):
  • Early Warnings
  • Service Delivery

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