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      • Africa
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          • Burkina Faso
          • Djibouti
          • DRC
          • Malawi
          • Niger 2.0
        • Regional
          • Central Africa
          • East Africa
          • Greater Horn of Africa
          • Southwest Indian Ocean
          • West Africa
        • Completed
          • Chad
          • Mali
          • Niger 1.0
          • Togo
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          • Afghanistan
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          • Drought Resilience and Early Warning (DREW) Pacific
          • Pacific SIDS 3.0
          • South Asia
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        • Completed
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          • Pacific SIDS 2.0
          • Papua New Guinea
          • Southeast Asia 1.0
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          • Dominican Republic
          • Haiti
        • Regional
          • Caribbean 2.0
        • Completed
          • Caribbean 1.0
      • Global
        • EW4All multi-stakeholder accelerator in LDCs and SIDS
        • Measuring the effectiveness of multi-hazard early warning systems 
    • Accelerated support
      • Africa
        • Completed
          • Benin
          • DRC
          • Guinea
          • Mozambique
          • Sierra Leone
        • ACMAD
        • Cabo Verde
        • Chad
        • Gambia
        • Malawi
        • Malawi 2.0
        • Rwanda
        • Senegal
        • Senegal Extreme Heat
        • Seychelles 
        • Sierra Leone 2.0
        • Somalia NMHS
        • Somalia
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        • Vanuatu
        • Completed
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Saving lives
and livelihoods
with early warning

Why early warning?

A heads-up so people can get out of danger’s way before extreme weather arrives – saves lives.

Forecasts and warnings also give people time to prevent or minimize damage to livelihoods and economic assets

Yet, the poorest and most threatened countries often have limited forewarning systems or services

Find out more

CREWS today

multi-year country, regional, and global projects (And 29 accelerated support window actions)
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million USD received or pledged (as of May 2025)
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countries and territories supported 
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million people living in LDCs and SIDS with access to/and receiving forecasts and early warning services developed or improved with CREWS support since 2015
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Latest news

  • May 4, 2026

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We invest in

People

To empower women and men with knowledge and skills to protect families, communities, and livelihoods from hazards

Institutions

To enable timely and accurate forecasting, early warning and disaster management – and sustain it.

Countries

So they can better protect their people and meet their international commitments

Innovation

For greater efficiency, effectiveness and impact – making our investments go even further

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Our difference

  • We are an operations-led funding initiative supporting action on early warning where it’s needed most.
  • We are led by a growing group of nations working together to make life-or-death difference to people and countries on the frontline of the climate crisis.
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Accessing support

  • We help Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) eligible for official development assistance to strengthen their forecasting and early warning.
  • We do this using different funding pathways.

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Where we work

  • Afghanistan
  • Burkina Faso
  • Chad
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Haiti
  • Mali
  • Malawi
  • Niger
  • Togo
  • East Africa
  • West Africa
  • Central Africa
  • Horn of Africa
  • Southwest Indian Ocean
  • Carribean
  • Papua New Guinea
  • South East Asia
  • Pacific SIDS
  • Benin
  • Cuba
  • Maldives
  • Mozambique
  • Tonga
  • Sierra Leone
  • Timor Leste
  • Vanuatu

Implementing Partners

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