Caribbean Beat — January/February 2019 (#155)

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ADVERTORIAL Early warning can savE livEs Top: Red Cross representatives visit a riverside community as a part of a risk reduction field visit Below: An example of an Early Warning System in Dominica If you knew twenty minutes before that a severe flood or tsunami would occur, what would you do? Early warning systems (EWS) allow individuals and communities a window of time for fight or flight. For time-critical events such as tsunamis, mudslides, and flash floods, the warnings are a trigger to action — to move quickly out of the danger area. For more moderate hazards, e.g. street flooding or slower arriving hurricanes, warnings provide an opportunity to fight to protect your family and property, either by relocation or barrier protection in doorways and windows. Early warning is not only the production of technically accurate warnings but also a system that requires an understanding of risk and a link between producers and consumers of warning information, with the ultimate goal of triggering action to prevent or mitigate a disaster. Given the Caribbean’s susceptibility to hazards, three organisations have partnered to improve early warning systems across the region. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), and IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) are teaming up with the National Disaster Management Offices in Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Saint Lucia, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. This initiative takes a regional, national, and community approach where organisations and communities bring unique knowledge, skills, networks, and tools to EWS development. At the community level, Red Cross staff and volunteers are on the ground working with the communities to monitor hazards, issue timely warnings, and take early action to protect themselves. This effort then links to national and regional multi-hazard systems. National Disaster Management Agencies in the Eastern Caribbean are working with meteorological offices and other warning agencies to improve national EWS. Based on individual country assessments, teams are seeking to address local needs and in some countries, a Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for EWS is being developed. Regionally, CDEMA’s website (www.cdema.org/ews/) hosts a toolkit which provides an overview of successful practices from the field and presents guiding principles which build a strong foundation for the design or strengthening of EWS. Supporting this collaboration is the Disaster Preparedness Programme of the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DIPE- CHO), which has for more than a decade provided funding to reduce disaster risk in the Caribbean. Early warnings allow for early action, and early action can save lives.
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