The four-year Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems Initiative (CREWS) Djibouti project – with USD 3.6 million in funding – aims to enhance the capacity of Djibouti’s national hydrometeorological and disaster management agencies. Jointly implemented by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Agency for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the project seeks to improve the production, delivery, and dissemination of Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems, enabling better preparedness, early action, and response to hazardous hydrometeorological events impacting Djibouti.
The project is structured around six key outcomes: improving the service delivery of the national meteorological agency (ANM) and the Center for Research Studies of Djibouti (CERD), developing and making accessible risk information to guide early warning systems, strengthening information and communication technology, enhancing preparedness and response plans with operational procedures for early warning dissemination, creating knowledge products and awareness programs on early warnings, and providing gender-sensitive training and capacity-building programs.
The CREWS Djibouti project is expected to…
