Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
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Following the 1st National Consultative Workshop on Early Warnings for All (EW4All) for Guyana on June 24-26, 2025, in Georgetown, a virtual workshop on Inclusive Early Warning Early Action for Belize will be held on July 16, 2025. This event aim to ensure that Guyana’s early warning systems are people-centered and tailored to the specific needs of various groups. This will be done through a collaborative multistakeholder session implementing the Inclusive early warning early action: checklist and implementation guide. The purpose of the checklist and implementation guide is to ensure that the key elements of early warning systems (governance; disaster risk knowledge; detection, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting; dissemination and communication; and preparedness to respond) are gender-responsive and disability-inclusive.
What to expect?
- Strengthened governance mechanisms and environments enabled for enacting and monitoring gender and disability inclusivity in warnings.
- Enhanced capacity of the audience groups to ensure gender-responsive and disability-inclusive warnings.
- Enhanced preparedness, readiness and responses for everyone to act effectively on warning and risk information.
- Adverse impacts of hazards and disasters minimised through warnings while reducing vulnerabilities by creating and maintaining gender-responsive and disability-inclusive warnings.
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM daily (Guyana Time| UTC-4)
Date: 16 July 2025
Where: Virtual (Online)
Related events:
- 1st National Consultative Workshop on Early Warnings for All for Guyana
This event will assess critical gaps in Guyana’s early warning infrastructure with the aim to enhance Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) to safeguard lives and livelihoods in Guyana.
Date: 24-26 June 2025
More information here