The four-year CREWS Drought Resilience and Early Warning (DREW) Pacific Project (2026–2029) is funded by the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative with an allocation of US$ 5.6 million. The project supports Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu, which face increasing exposure to climate variability and prolonged drought conditions. Drought presents significant socio-economic and environmental challenges in the region, affecting water security, agriculture, food systems, livelihoods, and public health while also highlighting gaps in the monitoring, forecasting, and early warning systems.The DREW Pacific Project aims to strengthen drought resilience by improving community-focused, integrated Early Warning Systems and Early Actions (EWSA) for drought. It will enhance national and regional technical capacities for drought monitoring and forecasting, strengthen institutional coordination, and promote inclusive, people-centred systems that ensure timely, actionable information reaches vulnerable communities. 

The Scale up Inclusive Early Warning and Action in the Pacific (SIEWAP) project is a four-year initiative, aimed at scaling up people-centered and end-to-end multi-hazard early warning systems (EWS) across 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It targets 2.3 million people in the Pacific Small Island Developing States who face high risks from climate-related hazards like tropical cyclones, floods, and sea-level rise. The project focuses on improving Early Warning System delivery, accessibility, anticipatory action, and gender-responsive and disability-inclusive approaches, building on previous phases and collaborating with various partners.Funded by the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative, and leveraging over US$200 million from other initiatives, the project is being implemented by WMO and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). 

Under the Horizon Europe RTD framework, the iClimateAction project aims to enhance the harmonization of Earth Observation activities among the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), iClimateAction explores how greater synergies can be developed across organizations in the creation, management, and utilization of climate data from Earth Observation (EO) to services.

With support from United States Department of State, The EWS-F targets 14 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Central America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Southwest Indian Ocean. The project was designed to expand WMO Members’ capabilities to better predict and manage  floods, namely, riverine floods, urban floods, and flash floods as well as drought and other related hydrometeorological hazards.  Integration with existing tools and interoperability of the systems are some of the core principles of this project. The efforts under this project are aligned with the EW4All initiative. 

The Global Heat Health Information Network is a UN-recognized, independent, voluntary, and member-driven forum co-sponsored by WHO, WMO, and NOAA, dedicated to improving global capacity to protect populations from extreme heat risks. Established in 2018, the Network fosters collaboration among scientists, practitioners, and policymakers through open access resources, public events, and inclusive learning.  The Network’s workplan prioritizes five key themes: urban heat, occupational heat stress, maternal and child health, cascading heat-related events, and indoor heat, as well as cross-cutting activities such as heat-health warning systems, heat health action planning and impact measurement. Organized around five strategic pillars, the Network enhances partnerships and capacity, advances science, and drives action to mitigate heat-related health risks, with a strong focus on low- and middle-income countries.  

Since October 2018, and in response to the Paris Agreement (Article 7, paragraph 7 (c)) WMO and Green Climate Fund (GCF) have partnered to provide the global community with access to new climate information, tools, and guidance to facilitate the generation and use of climate information in support of climate action decisions, recognizing the contribution and value of science-based decision-making in responding to climate change.  Some of the products developed by WMO include a methodology for Developing the Climate Science Information for Climate Action (WMO-No. 1287), data, tools and associated technical resources for enhancing the climate science basis for GCF-funded projects and activities, as well as for National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and climate policies.  The aim of providing these products is to help all countries, in particular least developed countries (LDCs), small island developing states (SIDS) and developing countries to identify and select the most effective climate actions to address climate impacts. In doing so, the guidance can contribute to country-level decision-making and the mobilization of climate finance.The Climate Science Information for Climate Action (CSICA) initiative was officially launched in 2021 at the twenty-sixth Conference of Parties (COP 26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow, Scotland. Furthermore, the GCF Board at its thirty-third Session in July 2022 adopted Decision 19 (GCF B.33/19) recognizing the results of the WMO-GCF collaboration and acknowledged the importance of scaling up the support for strengthening the capacity of all stakeholders to access, synthesize, and incorporate relevant climate science information into climate action policies, plans and investments, as well as enhancing the hydrological and meteorological systems and associated climate information services for low-carbon and climate-resilient development.Noting significant demand from countries, and high-level political support for this work, WMO is implementing the CSICA initiative through the provision of institutional coordination support, technical advisory services, capacity development and increased partnerships. 

Flash floods are among the world’s deadliest natural disasters with more than 5 000 lives lost annually. Their social, economic and environmental impacts are significant. Accounting for approximately 85% of flooding cases, flash floods also have the highest mortality rate among different classes of flooding, including riverine and coastal. Flash floods differ from river floods in their short time scales and occurrence on small spatial scales, which makes flash flood forecasting a different challenge from large-river flood forecasting. In flash floods forecasting, we are concerned mostly with the forecast of occurrence, and focus on two causative events: 1) intense rainfall; and 2) rainfall on saturated soils. Flash floods occur throughout the world, and the development times vary across regions from minutes to several hours depending on the land surface, geomorphological and hydrometeorological characteristics of the region. However, for the majority of these areas, there exists no formal process or capacity for developing flash flood warnings.

The Early Warnings for All Accelerator for LDCs and SIDS project targets seven countries: Comoros, Kiribati,  Madagascar, Mauritius, Nepal, Solomon Islands and Tonga. Economic and social life in these countries is intricately linked to climate and the natural environment, making them more vulnerable to climate variations and change. While the scale of disaster and climate impacts vary from country to country, the vulnerabilities in these countries stem from common factors: topography and complex geographies; reliance on climate-sensitive economic activities; water dependency; high debt burdens; and climate variability and emerging risks. The countries suffer from a combined average annual loss to disasters of over US$ 300 million.

Of the 4.3 billion people living in Asia Pacific, it is the 2.3 million inhabiting the Pacific’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) who face the highest level of disaster and climate risk. The Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2019 rates the risk level as 3 to 4 times that of any other population in the entire region. The World Risk Report 2018 places five Pacific SIDS among its ten most at-risk countries in the world. The Pacific is on the frontline of the climate crisis. CREWS Pacific SIDS 2.0 is the second regional CREWS Project in the Pacific. This project is an extension of the CREWS Pacific SIDS project (2017-2021) and aims to upscale its efforts in the Pacific Region. CREWS Pacific SIDS 2.0 seeks to strengthen existing early warning systems that are part of the region’s stronger and more comprehensive human security and resilience agenda. The project will be led by WMO, working closely with CREWS implementing partner UNDRR.The project contributes to the SENDAI Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, WMO’s Long-Term Goals and Strategic Objectives, the Kainaki II Declaration, as well as the priorities of the Pacific Islands Meteorology Strategy (PIMS) 2017-2026. 

Climate extremes are placing growing pressure on water resources, food security, and livelihoods in many developing countries. The 79 Members of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) are among the most vulnerable, yet Member States of the OACPS have contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions.The EU-funded Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Applications Programme (ClimSA) was established to address these challenges by enhancing the climate services value chain across the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) regions.  ClimSA has brought together eight Regional Climate Centres (RCCs), ten National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) from focus countries, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), EUMETSAT, the African Union Commission (AUC), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to strengthen climate prediction, data management, and the delivery of actionable climate services.By enhancing the production, translation, and uptake of climate information, the Programme contributes directly to informed decision-making, resilience building, and sustainable development in climate-sensitive sectors. ClimSA supports these efforts through technical assistance, financial support, as well as infrastructure and capacity development.As main users of climate services and the bridge to other final users, the African Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the African Union Commission (AUC), the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO) , and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) are the focus of the programme to ensure sustainability and utilization of climate services. ClimSa Community Space 

The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of hydro-meteorological events and climate change. The island economies and livelihoods are regularly affected by hydro-meteorological hazards such as tropical cyclones, heavy rains, drought, sea level rise and storm surges. With the desired impact of reduced loss of human life and reduced economic losses due to hydro-meteorological extreme events in the Pacific, the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative has allocated US$ 2.5 million to this WMO-led project. The project works to build NMHSs capacities through ensuring necessary institutional framework and strategies are in place, modernizing forecasting facilities, enhancing service delivery, and implementing community based early warning systems.

The CIFDP- F is facilitating the development of efficient forecasting and warning systems for coastal inundation based on robust science and observations, along vulnerable coastal areas in Fiji. In doing so, the CIFDP-F will integrate cross-cutting scientific models into an open forecasting environment for the purpose of improving/ expanding/ developing the forecasting and warning systems for storm surges, hydrological response to heavy rainfall and Tropical Cyclone landfall on coastal areas, and other phenomena causing coastal inundation. Beneficiary groups  are mainly coastal communities in Fiji in the immediate term, through the improved performance of national institutions responsible for coastal disaster forecasting, warning, and climate adaptation planning. Every year, populations in coastal zones are impacted by coastal inundation caused by waves, including long period swell, storm surges and hydrological inundation, resulting in loss of life and damage to property. The results of this project will provide critical information to improve forecasting, warning, and evacuation planning in coastal zones.            The beneficiary sectors will include the coastal residents (end users) in agriculture, fishery, tourism and other industries, disaster managers in central and regional governments (intermediary users). In particular, improved forecasting services will serve greatly to ensure safe operation of tourism business, which is a major source of Fiji’s income. The project is divided into phases to be implemented within the period 2016 to 2020 and a total budget of USD 1.2 million, generously provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has allocated CAD $10 million to the project Building Resilience to High-Impact Hydro-Meterological Events through Strengthening Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and South East Asia, representing its institutional support to the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative. An additional CAD 3.3 million has been provided from the CREWS Multi-Donor Trust Fund. Running until March 2021, the multi-country project will strengthen weather-, climate-, and water-related impact-based decision support services, protecting lives and property in three regions: South East Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.