Collaboration in MHEWS Through an Integrated Way: The Great Efforts Contributed by Multi-stakeholder Partnership at National, Regional and International Levels

Tang, Xu; Sassa, Kyoji; Brasseur, Guy P.; Cullmann, Johannes; Fang, Zheqing

In recent years, great progress has been made in the development of knowledge and practices related to the multi-hazard early warnings and in strengthening the related multi-stakeholder partnership. Global initiatives are gaining momentum to improve multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) and so boost the resilience of the most vulnerable countries to extreme weather/water /geological, environment and health-related events and its impacts to the sustainability of social and economic development. However, understanding its interconnectivity and interoperability and developing impact-based and risk-informed methodologies in its integration in the all relevant hazard aspects are still needed to be strengthened. This article presents an overview of advances and challenges in multi-stakeholder partnership for improving MHEWS in an integrated way in order to better achieve the Target-G of the Sendai Framework on DRR, Paris Agreement on Climate Change and SDGs. We focus on major international cooperation and partnerships on MHEWS and its applications, but not limited to, the International Multi-Hazard Early Warning System Network (IN-MHEWS), Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS), Regional Integrated MHEWS in Africa and Asia (RIMES); and many specific MHEWSs interfaces, such as Global Disaster Alerting Coordination System (GDACS), Global Multi-hazard Alert System (GMAS), MeteoAlarm/Alert Systems, All Risk Integrated System TOwards Trans-boundary hoListic Early-warning—European Natural Hazards Scientific Partnership (ARISTOTLE-ENHSP), etc. as well as relevant multi-stakeholder partnership platforms to connect related MHEWS with its application networks between international organizations, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private sectors at regional and national levels, such as United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC), Global Water Partnership(GWP), Environment and Humanitarian Action (EHA) Network, Global network on Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction of Air Quality (MAP-AQ), Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET), Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW), and Forecast-based Financing mechanism and programme (FbF) etc. The further actions to facilitate UN Member States for improving its capacity in MHEWS partnership at national and local levels through strengthening multi-stakeholder partnership at international and regional levels are discussed and recommended in the conclusion and discussion.