Somalia: Advancing Early Warnings for All: 2025 updates
For decades, Somalia has faced the compounding impacts of droughts, floods, and conflict. In this fragile context, disaster impacts can deepen poverty, drive displacement, and fuel instability. Today, through the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative, Somalia is taking steps to strengthen disaster preparedness and reduce these cascading risks. Led by the Government, 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), Somalia is laying the foundation for a multi-hazard early warning system (MHEWS) to save lives, protect livelihoods, and build resilience before disasters.
Somalia’s progress under EW4All reflects a coordinated, end-to-end effort to strengthen national systems, improve risk knowledge, scale up mobile alerting and emergency communications, and link early warnings to anticipatory action in a fragile and conflict-affected context. By advancing a nationally owned roadmap, reinforcing the National Multi-Hazard Early Warning Centre, expanding forecasting and observation capacity, and empowering communities through inclusive risk communication, Somalia is translating forecasts into earlier, faster action. These efforts have already demonstrated life-saving impact during floods and droughts, showing how Early Warnings for All can reduce losses, protect livelihoods, and build resilience even amid compounding climate and security risks.
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