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CREWS resources contributes to the improvement of the Government of Chad’s early warning services for drought, flooding and other severe climate and weather-related events by enhancing the capacities of national...
CREWS is a mechanism that funds Least Developed Countries (LDC) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) for risk informed early warning services, implemented by 3 partners, based on clear operational procedures.
Publish Date: 12 November 2019
Contact: Flash floods are among the world’s deadliest natural disasters with more than 5 000 lives lost annually. Their social, economic and environmental impacts are significant. Accounting for approximately 85%...
The World Bank serves as the Trustee for the CREWS Trust Fund. The Trust Fund was established in September 2016. It administers the funds and reports regularly to the Steering Committee.
The Implementing Partners work directly with partner countries to build their capacity, improve their observation infrastructure, forecasting and service delivery, as well as their readiness to operationalize external funds.
The CREWS initiative supports LDCs and SIDS to significantly increase the capacity to generate and communicate effective, impact-based, multi-hazard, gender-informed early warnings to protect lives, livelihoods, and assets.
Publish Date: 3 October 2019
77 countries committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, while 70 countries announced they will either boost their national action plans by 2020 or have started the process of doing so, according to the summit organizers .
CREWS is a collaboration between the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
The Secretariat is hosted and managed by WMO in Geneva. The Secretariat supports CREWs operations, the work of the Steering Committee and receives and reviews project proposals.
