About MHEWC

Mission and Vision of Multi-hazard Early Warning System Design & Implementation Center (MHEWC)

The Multi-Hazard Early Warning System Design & Implementation Center (MHEWC) has just begun its journey. It aims to become a center of excellence in research, development, and solutions for designing and developing a robust, ICT-driven climate and multi-hazard risk management hub, supporting governments at the national level. The MHEWC early warning and risk management system considers the county-level last-mile geography, topography, and landscape-induced risk paradigm, as well as impending hydrometeorological risks and vulnerabilities. MHWEC aimed to remove barriers to country-level multi-stakeholder coordination, sectoral misalignment, department-level coordination, and the engagement of local R&D and academia in risk management initiatives.

The MHEWC is designed to support country-level efforts in removing barriers (including institutional, stakeholder, local government sector departments, and humanitarian actors) and provide the most robust ICT-integrated technological solution for regional and local risk management.

MHEWC can conduct a comprehensive institutional assessment (climate and multi-hazard risk management structure, institutional capacity/capability in risk assessment, informed-planning tools development, risk-informed local development planning), identify the institutional service delivery capacity, gaps, and provide a solid roadmap on where capacity building is needed and the types of interventions required.

MHEWC operates like a plug-and-play system, harmonizing local context and expertise to close country-level risk management gaps by deploying south-south expertise, knowledge, and tools, and sharing and delivering affordable solutions.

MHEWC promotes South-South knowledge sharing on climate & implementing disaster risk management for Asia, Africa, and Latin American countries.

1. Breaking down the Silo approach and establishing a local-level coordination system facilitated by mobile apps, online databases, and Geospatial maps, etc.
2. The Multi-Hazard Early Warning System Design & Implementation Center (MHEWC) is intended to function as an independent and open-ended platform, removing all barriers (institutional, stakeholder, local government sector departments, and humanitarian actors) and providing the most robust ICT-integrated technological solution to the regional risk paradigm.
3. We support for new installation, diagnose the existing system’s operational capacity and support for upgrading the country-level NMHEWC essentially be functional as an ICT enabled 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.
4. The integrated NMHEWC at the country level promotes the digital and virtual local risk governance system to overcome institutional coordination and data exchange barriers at every local government and administrative level, and will extensively cover last-mile, multi-stakeholder-led risk governance gaps.
5. Diagnose existing hydrometeorological services, conduct an assessment of the meteorological agency’s institutional capability, products, and services. Assess the surface hydromet observation network, and design and implement support for new hybrid observation networks (highly instrumented) for multi-dimensional parameter observations, element observations, tracking hazard hotspots, event situations, and last-mile/community-level L&D.
6. Diagnose the operational capability of the national disaster management organization (NDMO), the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS), and individual sector departments in elements-level risk and vulnerability assessment, risk repository database development, and impact forecasting capabilities.
7. Assessment of the national flood forecasting and early warning capability, tropical storm and storm surge warning process, and other multi-hazard early warning capabilities, etc., and provide support for system upgrade ( a complete set of design documents for upgrading every system and methodology, tools, and guidelines).
8. Diagnose the national vulnerability assessment methodology, tools, and capacity of the committee/entity. Conduct assessment of institutional/stakeholder capacity in climate exposure, risk, and vulnerability assessment(CERVA), Post-disaster damage, loss, and needs assessment (PDNA), RPDNA. Provide support for developing CERVA 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. Provide complete tools on how to improve the process and the MIS/GIS/Geospatial system.
9. Conduct capacity needs assessment (CNA), develop capacity building package for every climate-vulnerable sector department (Agriculture, crop agriculture, livestock, fisheries, water sector, health sector, WASH sector, environmental sector, and livelihood sector) in conducting CERVA/PDNA and provide tools, methodologies, and processes for conducting risk and vulnerability assessments of each sector. Provide an ICT-integrated solution for risk governance of each industry.
10. Design and develop an Integrated dashboard for NDMO/Local Government to monitor every element of the sector department, including ongoing risk, vulnerability information, L&Ds inventory, impact level, and provide an integrated Early Action Protocol (EAP). 
11. Develop  GIS tools based on Multi-hazard preparedness, response, and recovery planning at the sector level
12. Develop GIS tools based on a Climate risk-informed, integrated climate change adaptation (CCA) local government planning and budgeting system, including appropriate scheme design, procurement design, implementation, and monitoring support for sector departments.( agriculture, livestock, fisheries, agroforestry, water, environmental and forest, public health, WASH, livelihood, value chain) 
13. 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.
14. Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Impact-based Weather Forecasting (IBF)
15. Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Forecast-based Financing (FBF)
16. Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Early Action Protocol (EAP)
17. Methodology, Tools, and Guidelines of Forecast-based Early Action/Forecast-based Anticipatory Action (AA)

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