(CREWS) Cooperation in the implementation of the CREWS Initiatives: Carribean, South East Asia and Djibouti
This project is implemented under the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative. CREWS strengthens and streamlines regional and national systems and capacities related to weather forecasting, hydrological services, multi-hazard impact-based warnings and service provision for improved decision making.
K&I’s contribution (carried out in the framework agreement between WMO, GWP and K&I relating to the Associated Program on Flood Management) is to strengthen the capacity of local stakeholders to effectively manage floods in Antigua and Barbuda and other small Caribbean islands. K&I was in charge of conducting a training workshop and drafting of a “Manual on Community-based Floods Management in the Caribbean”. Moreover K&I cooperated in the design and the implementation of a Regional Training Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in End-to-End Early Warning System for Flood Forecasting and Integrated Flood Risk Management in the Caribbean Small Islands and of two National Training Workshops on Gender Mainstreaming in End-to-End Early Warning System for Flood Forecasting and Integrated Flood Risk Management one in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and one in Cambodia. A third similar National Training Workshop will be held in the next months in Djibouti, where K&I is already cooperating with the local Red Crescent on the implementation of a complex project of Community-based flood management.