The workshop will use a mix of interactive presentations and discussions with appropriate methodology and tools. The workshop is expected to bring together participants representing national, regional, and local government sectors, community groups, UN agencies, NGOs, key donors, and relevant research organizations. The workshop will bring together about 50 diverse groups of participants involved in EWS design, implementation, and use. The skeleton of the roadmap with clear strategies, key actions for improvement, and milestones is expected to show the pathway for improvement of existing EWs. As a step forward, the technical committee agreed to organize a multi-stakeholder After Action Review (AAR) workshop to review the current EWS operationalization in Ethiopia and develop a framework of the roadmap for the improvement of national EWS (NEWS).
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To address the pitfalls, the National Early Warning Technical Committee (NEW-TC) involving the government and non-government partners has discussed how to achieve the vision to modernize and digitalize the existing EWS and make it serve its purposes. Some of those initiatives included the improvement of the regular early warning monitoring tool and its associated guidelines, the establishment of national incident management (NIMS), and various early warning and early action (EWEA) pilot projects.
Accordingly, the government in collaboration with its humanitarian and development partners has launched various programs and initiatives to improve the EWS. Since the famine of 1974, the country has put in place one of the oldest early warning systems in Africa, and much has been done in improving the system. Furthermore, the policy envisages the EWS to be functionally linked to the woreda disaster risk profile and other relevant information sources, including central statistics (CSA) data, to enable communities and government machinery at all levels to initiate timely, effective, and adequate early actions/mitigation measures. The DRM policy clearly states that the DRM system of the country in general, and the EWS in particular, have to be multi-hazard, multi-sectoral, decentralized, and community-centered. The Disaster Risk Management Strategic Program and Investment Framework (DRM-SPIF) emphasizes that effective preparedness in the country can be achieved, among others, through a strengthened early warning system (EWS).