The Multi-hazard Early Warning System Design & Implementation Center (MHEWC) provides technical support at the country level to design, install, and operationalize the ICT Integrated National Multi-Hazard Early Warning Center (NMHEWC). We support for new installation, diagnose the existing system operational capacity and support for upgrading the country-level NMHEWC essentially be functional as an interoperable and integrated ICT online database system, geospatial platform (automated standard alerting system, web-based database & apps based interface )to connect all relevant climate-vulnerable sector departments, diverse stakeholders, value chain operators, and frontline vulnerable communities to interact with an integrated system for weather forecasting, impact forecasting, operational forecasting, weather warning, and trigger classified alerts for elements. The integrated NMHEWC will function as a digital and virtual local risk governance system to overcome the institutional coordination and data exchange barriers at every local government/ administrative level and extensively cover the last-mile multi-stakeholder-led risk governance. The proposed NMHEWC system is intended to comply with the Sendai Framework and UNDRR EW4ALL initiatives through the full-scale design and implementation of NMHEWC to instrumentalize, automate, and make it interoperable and interactive in an operational modality of all indicative 4 Pillar actions for creating a country’s robust multi-hazard and climate risk information management system.
This Organization specializes in developing a complete set of methodologies and tools ( GIS and remote Sensing maps, Aerial survey Drones and UAVs, GPS survey apps and instruments, socioeconomic survey apps, Key-informant interviews survey apps, Focus Groups, etc.), guidelines and conduct climate and multi-hazard risk and vulnerability assessment, database development and provide tailormade risk repository for supporting climate vulnerable sector department to develop their risk-informed planning process. We diagnose the country-level and sector-level risk assessment capacity, tools, methodology, process, and provide a complete set of guidelines and methods of comprehensive climate risk and vulnerability assessment( CRVA), multi-hazard risk assessment, post-disaster damage/loss, needs assessment (PDNA), Rapid-PDNA, etc.
This Organization specializes in developing CRVA database (online geospatial & physical database with Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.), repository (with database server) , GIS risk atlas, GIS maps on climate risk ranked by administrative layers of the county, developing multi-hazard maps/hazard prone maps, showing multi-hazard and climate hotspot, etc.
This Organization specializes in local government capacity building in climate risk governance, diagnosing current Disaster Risk Management (DRM) planning paradigms, and providing one-stop solutions on multi-hazard preparedness, response, and recovery planning, sector-level and integrated climate change adaptation (CCA) local government planning and budgeting system, CCA, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Nature-based Solution (NbS), Locally led adaptation (LLA), etc.
MHEWC provides consultancy (least cost) support services to country-level national disaster management organizations (NDMO), the National Meteorological and Hydrological Organization (NMHS), the National Met Agency, Sector Ministries, and Departments in the following technical areas;
1) Design, install, and operationalize a Multi-hazard Emergency Operations Center (EOC) with an online dashboard to visualize the multi-hazard impacts, ongoing event situations at the frontline, weather forecasting, live broadcast of ongoing disaster trails of Loss and Damages(L&Ds). It would be like a command & control room, disaster preparedness, and human crews’ readiness to take ground action.
2) Design set of ICT, GIS, IT database, GPS, and socioeconomic survey apps-based assessment tools and conducting comprehensive climate risk assessment (CRVA): Develop CRVA ICT tools and conducted manual and capture risk elements (around 200) with GPS data logger, GPS essential, Drone (for aerial image captures), and hardcopy GIS administrative base map with multiple layers (Risk and Resource). Conducting consultation with participatory rural appraisal (PRA), Conducting participatory Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Key Informant Interviews (KII), PRA, PLA, LLA methods with climate frontline vulnerable community, vulnerable sectors, vulnerable communities, local enterprises, local credit operators, SMEs, market operators, and utility services provides and captures data with hard & soft copy templates
3) Multi-hazard risk assessment, Post-disaster damage, loss, and needs assessment (PDNA),
4) Multi-hazard preparedness, response, and recovery planning at the sector level
5) Climate risk-informed integrated climate change adaptation (CCA) local government planning and budgeting system, appropriate scheme design, and implementation support
6) Provide a one-stop solution for project planning, design, budgeting, and schemes for the climate-vulnerable sectors on CCA, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Nature-based Solutions (NbS), locally led adaptation (LLA), etc.
7) Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Impact-based Weather Forecasting (IBF)
8) Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Forecast-based Financing (FBF)
9) Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Early Action Protocol (EAP)
10) Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Forecast-based Early Action/Forecast-based Anticipatory Action (AA)