Working
Group 2 : Early Warning
Chair: United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP)
The overall
purpose of Working Group 2 is to
support the early warning activities of Inter-agency Task Force
members, the UN/ISDR Secretariat and other relevant partners,
with a view to facilitate a more coordinated approach to improving
early warning; thereby, contributing to the overall implementation
of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
Contributions
to the following areas:
- Create
a body of knowledge on early warning, to support a continued
dialogue and 'good' practices, particularly in developing
countries;
- Improve
the effectiveness of existing coordination mechanisms among
international agencies, together with, and between, individual
national scientific and technical agencies responsible for
early warning;
- Facilitate
the development of existing regional and national and local
capabilities for early warning systems;
- Disseminate
information on the role of early warning in risk reduction,
in particular for relevant international, regional, national
and local actors;
- Enhance
the collaboration between the groups and the harmonisation
of activities;
- Share
early warning experience among countries through information
dissemination and networking.
Members
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