Haiti: Advancing Early Warnings for All: 2025 updates
Haiti faces recurring hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods. These risks, intensified by climate change and fragile infrastructure, have driven the country to strengthen disaster preparedness and early warning systems nationwide. The Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative is supporting Haiti’s goal of protecting every person from disasters through timely, inclusive, and coordinated action.
Led by the Directorate General for Civil Protection (DGPC) with support from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Haiti is building the systems, partnerships, and capacities needed to deliver timely, actionable and people-centred multi-hazard early warning system.
Building on this foundation, Haiti is advancing an end-to-end approach to early warning that strengthens national coordination, improves risk knowledge and data use, scales up mobile-based alerting, and places communities at the centre of preparedness and response. Through its EW4All roadmap, regional partnerships, and operational innovations such as large-scale SMS alert simulations and anticipatory action frameworks, the country is translating forecasts into earlier, faster, and more coordinated action for hurricanes, floods, and other hazards. Together, these efforts demonstrate how Early Warnings for All is helping Haiti move from reactive response toward prevention, protecting lives and livelihoods even in fragile and high-risk contexts.
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