Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
About
The Government of Guyana, in collaboration with the United Nations and key international partners, will host the First National Consultative Workshop on Early Warnings for All (EW4All) from June 24–26, 2025, in Georgetown. This high-level workshop will officially launch the EW4All initiative in Guyana and serve as a platform to take stock of the current status of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS), identify existing advancements and gaps, and develop a national implementation roadmap.
Organized by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), with support from the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, UNDRR, WMO, ITU, and IFRC, the workshop will bring together stakeholders to strengthen coordination and advance risk-informed, multi-hazard early warning systems that reach the most at-risk communities with timely, actionable information.
What to expect?
A three-day stakeholders’ consultation exercise will be held June 24th – 26th 2025 in Georgetown, Guyana, with the aim to highlight the existing advancements and gaps for an efficient MHEWS in Guyana, while identifying the pertinent activities to be included in a concerted national roadmap or implementation plan that will address closing the identified gaps and advancing MHEWS in the country.
Specifically, the first national consultive workshop will:
- Validate draft reports on the identified gaps for an effective MHEWS;
- Facilitate the identification of elements not described or identified in the revision of the gap analysis;
- Take stock of the status of elements relevant to MHEWS in the country;
- Identify all key actors and stakeholders;
- Propose and formalize a national coordination mechanism for MHEWS (reengage the existing MHEWS Sub-Committee) that will ensure the implementation of the EW4All and MHEWS actions in the short, medium, and long term;
- Define the national implementation plan for closing the identified gaps and defining the way forward towards sound, effective and sustainable MHEWS in Guyana.
🕑 Time: 09:00 AM to 04:00 PM daily (Guyana Time | UTC-4)
📅 Date: 24-26 June 2025
📍 Where: Roraima Duke Lodge, Duke Street, Georgetown, Guyana