Work
Program 2006
The PPEW work program for the first half of 2006 is organised around
three main tasks:
Task 1 – Establish stakeholder-based governance mechanisms and
programme content of the International Early Warning Programme (IEWP). The objective of the first task is to develop the International Early
Warning Programme with strong stakeholder engagement, and to reform PPEW’s
governance to make it more accountable to the body of active IEWP partners.
- Promote a concept
of active partnership in the IEWP with key potential stakeholders,
including the role of partners in deciding and contributing
to the IEWP work programme and guiding PPEW’s activities.
- Revise the 2005 IEWP Programme Definition Document to reflect the new
expectations of ISDR system, including active support of collaborative
activities and the implementation of the Hyogo Framework.
-
Convene a meeting of potential IEWP partners to develop the governance
mechanisms for the IEWP and PPEW, and follow-up on the meeting’s
recommendations as appropriate.
- Facilitate the
drafting of a framework programme for the IEWP, to include inter
alia necessary follow-up actions to the global survey of early
warning systems and to the outcomes of EWC III, as well
as the work activities of the PPEW described in this proposal.
Task
2 – Complete the platform’s
current major projects: the tsunami early warning strengthening project,
the global survey of
warning systems, and support of EWC III. The objective here is to successfully
complete the major early warning projects begun by PPEW in 2005 and to
promote follow-up strategies and activities with partners and donors.
- Support
the preparations for the EWC III by:
- Providing
advice, contacts, background material, meeting support, etc,
- Building
a database of submitted project projects, ensuring their quality
review, preparing a catalogue of project
summaries, and assisting
in their promotion with donors.
- Supporting
the production of conference outcomes including the checklist of
good practices, session
summaries, and a conference
statement.
- Complete the drafting and consultation process of the global survey
of early warning systems requested by the UN Secretary General, and its
first release at EWC III.
- Support the completion
of the Early Warning Strengthening Project (Indian Ocean tsunami
related), with particular focuses on lessons learned and
linking early warning technical capacities into disaster
management, public awareness and education, and sustainable development.
Task 3 – Develop the platform’s
information resources, support services and internal capacities. The
objective of task 3 is to build
the information resources, networking capabilities, awareness raising,
related services and operational capacities to support the IEWP.
- Maintain and improve
the information resources available from the platform, through (i)
improved volume and quality of web site content; (ii) preparation
and dissemination of the PPEW quarterly newsletter; (iii) the preparation
of publications and brochures, and (iv) improved access to the
early
warning databases created during 2005.
- Promote early warning systems and their practical implementation in
ISDR system venues and in other UN policy processes such as those concerning
water and climate change and in preparations of the annual reports by
the UN Secretary General.
-
Undertake the transfer of the platform’s interim office from Haus
IV, Görresstrasse 30 to the refurbished Langer Eugen building (scheduled
for 21 April 2006).
See Work
Program 2005 - 2004
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