Multi-country Project Advancing Early Warnings for All (EW4All)

Project details

This project addresses the four key elements of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS): disaster risk knowledge; detection, observation, monitoring, analysis and forecasting of hazards; warning dissemination mechanisms and communication; and preparedness and response capabilities

The project interventions, delivered through two outputs, intend to assist vulnerable countries in making continuous strides towards meeting the Early Warnings for All vision. This will be achieved by supporting concrete investments in the seven countries in Output 2, and by establishing a sustainable architecture at the global and regional levels to continuously support more countries in promoting country-level actions towards Early Warnings for All (Output 1).

The project addresses critical barriers that prevent the effective generation, dissemination, communication, and use of early warnings for climate change adaptation, preparedness and response to warnings, through two broad outputs tailored to specific country needs.

Output 1 aims to accelerate and scale up national access to global and regional technical and operational support for countries to develop comprehensive MHEWS and respective capabilities. Recognizing the need for continuous and significant efforts to achieve the goal on universal access to early warnings, enabling conditions will be enhanced globally and regionally to promote country-level actions toward a global coordination and support architecture for Early Warnings for All that will be sustained beyond the project implementation period. The output will be led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

Output 2 addresses barriers that prevent the implementation of a comprehensive and end-to-end multi hazard early warning system (MHEWS) in the seven countries including: gaps in policies, inter-agency coordination and lack of coherent strategies; inadequate technical and scientific capacities; missing observations particularly in SIDS and Least Developed Countries (LDCs); and barriers that prevent effective local actions. The activities will mirror the four pillars of the Early Warnings for Alll Executive Action Plan and will be implemented through the national governments with support from UNDP, the Early Warnings for All Pillar leads (WMO, UNDRR, ITU, IFRC) and their in-country national offices and other partner agencies where relevant.

The two outputs will work in tandem to accelerate the delivery of the Early Warnings for All Executive Action Plan and provide long-term and uninterrupted support to critical baseline capacities on which MHEWS are built. These are: 

• Robust scientific information and analytics on weather, water and climate hazards and vulnerabilities within National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), National Disaster Risk Management Authorities (NDMAs) and relevant sectors to support greater and more diverse understanding of disaster risk and its underlying factors, with greater Impact Based Forecasting (IbF) to inform decision-making and planning; 
• Effective internal coordination among various government entities that are responsible for different elements of managing a national EWS; and  
• A long-term financing plan to maintain the necessary hydrometeorological infrastructure, and community level capacities to receive, understand and respond to early warning systems thus enhancing adaptive capacities at national levels to protect lives and livelihoods.

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Key results & output

Output 1: Enhancing enabling conditions globally and regionally to promote country-level actions towards the EW4All goals

Activity 1.1: Enhanced Coordination and Technical Support for EW4All Implementation

Activity 1.2: Strengthened M&E to support EW4All Implementation

Activity 1.3: Strengthened knowledge management and lessons learned

Output 2: Accelerating actions in select countries towards EW4All

Activity 2.1: Strengthened Governance and Coordination

Activity 2.2: Disaster risk knowledge and observations

Activity 2.3: Warning dissemination, preparedness and response

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Monitoring & evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation for this project will be at the global project level and at the country level in each of the seven countries. The global Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) system will feed into overall project management and oversight, reporting, as well as knowledge management. It will prompt the global teams of experts to support national projects and to ensure a continuous, two-way flow of information. The national Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system will support adaptive management, reporting and knowledge sharing at the national level.

A project implementation report will be prepared for each year of project implementation at both the global and national levels. The respective Project Managers, UNDP’s Bureau of Policy Programming Support (BPPS) and respective UNDP Country Office, and the UNDP Technical Specialist Climate Change Adaptation and Regional Technical Advisor will provide objective input to the Annual Performance Report (APR).

An independent Interim Evaluation (IE) will be undertaken at the mid-term of the project, and the findings and responses outlined in the management response will be incorporated as recommendations for enhanced implementation during the final half of the project’s duration. The report will be based on an evaluation of both the global project as well as the country level projects. An independent terminal evaluation (TE) will take place no later than three months prior to operational closure of the project.

The IE and TE will be carried out by an independent evaluator and once finalized, uploaded to public UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre (www.erc.undp.org). The BPPS and each UNDP Country Office will retain all M&E records for this project for up to seven years after project financial closure.

The final project Annual Performance Report, along with the terminal evaluation report and corresponding management response, will serve as the final project report package.

Project-level monitoring and evaluation at both levels, will be undertaken in compliance with the UNDP Programme and Operations Policy and Procedures (POPP) and the UNDP Evaluation Policy, with primary responsibility for day-to-day project monitoring and implementation resting with the respective Project Managers. UNDP will perform monitoring and reporting throughout the Reporting Period, including semi-annual reporting, in accordance with the AMA and Funded Activity Agreement (FAA). 

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