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Climate Risks and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Partnership


The global Climate Risks and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Partnership supports Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in creating necessary human capacities to generate and communicate climate and weather risks timely and effectively. This allows to save millions of lives and significantly reduce economic losses caused by natural disasters and a changing climate. Providing Swiss development, humanitarian and insurance expertise to the CREWS Partnership will contribute to increased impact and sustainability of public and private investments in this field.

Pays/région Thème Période Budget
Monde entier
Changement climatique & environnement
Réduction des risques de catastrophes
Services météorologiques
01.12.2018 - 31.12.2025
 CHF  9’000’000
Le projet en bref
Contexte Weather and climate natural disaster take a high toll on human lives and global economy. In 2017, hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and floods led to $330 billion losses according to the World Bank. This is the highest weather-related costs ever observed. Weather and climate services provide the basis immediate Disaster Risks Reduction measures but also for long-term climate change adaptation planning, including de-risking mechanisms (insurances). While adaptation to weather and climate hazards urgently requires early warning, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) in developing countries remain unable to meet this demand. The international community has become aware of this gap and launched the Climate Risks and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Partnership. Set within the World Bank Group (WBG) and implemented by the Global Facility of Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk (UNISDR), CREWS is an important mechanism to implement key multilateral agreements: the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement (on Climate Change), as well as the Agenda 2030.
Objectifs The overall goal of CREWS is to support the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to significantly increase the provision of weather and climate services and the capacity to generate and communicate effective, impact-based, multi-hazard, gender-informed, early warning information to save lives, livelihoods, and assets.
Groupes cibles

Direct: National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in LDCs and SIDS

Indirect: National and sub-national decision makers such as sector ministries, city mayors and planners, small and medium enterprises, farmers, regional inter-governmental organizations, implementing partners, individuals.
Effets à moyen terme
  • CREWS partnership: The number of people reached in LDCs and SIDSs by early-warning systems of weather and climate-related risks issued by regional and national meteorological and hydrological services and associated response and adaptation plans with operational procedures has substantially increased.
  • Switzerland/SDC: Recognized global WMO/WB code-of conduct on hydromet/EWS established to ensure increased sustainability of public and private global hydromet investments.
Résultats

Principaux résultats attendus:  

CREWS; in 17 (10 LDCs, 7 SIDS) target countries:

  1. Building of services and capacities of NMHS on monitoring and early warnings.
  2. Investments with a high-impact in technology and leveraging of upstream large-scale investments.
  3. Regional and national response planning with operational procedures for effective early warning dissemination.
  4. Climate (seasonal, multi-year, and long-term) adaptation planning with a focus on high impact sectors (e.g. agriculture, health) established.
  5. Targeted, gender-informed education and public awareness programmes addressing linguistic diversity established.
  6. Partner countries enabled in monitoring the progress of early warning systems against the 2030 sustainable development agenda, the targets of the Sendai Framework and the adaption goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
  7. Creation of the Hydromet Alliance for Development, co-spearheaded by WMO, World Bank, and Green Climate Fund.

Switzerland/SDC:

  1. Co-shape a new quality standard for public and private hydromet investments (code-of-conduct), based on long-standing Swiss expertise from SDC, MeteoSwiss and Swiss insurance sector
  2. Forge the institutional partnership with the WMO, UNISDR, and GFDRR, and foster synergies within SDC
  3. Prioritizing and designing smart interventions on NHMS and aligning those projects with efforts of SDC as a whole
Direction/office fédéral responsable DDC
Crédit Coopération au développement
Partenaire de projet Partenaire contractuel
Institution financière internationale (IFI)
  • Banque Mondiale - Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement


Autres partenaires
World Bank Group
Coordination avec d'autres projets et acteurs GFDRR, UNISDR, WMO (HydroHub), Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), Green Climate Fund (GCF), SDC and SECO bilateral regional/country programmes such as CLIMANDES, CATCOS; SDC Global Programme Water and others.
Budget Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF    9’000’000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF    9’000’000
Phases du projet Phase 1 01.12.2018 - 31.12.2025   (Phase en cours)
  • Secteur selon catégorisation du Comité d'aide au développement de l'OCDE PREVÉNTION CATASTROPHES / PRÉPARATION À LEUR SURVENUE
    GOUVERNEMENT ET SOCIETE CIVILE
    Sous-Secteur selon catégorisation du Comité d'aide au développement de l'OCDE
    Prévention des catastrophes et préparation à leur survenue
    Services météorologiques
    Type d'aide Panier de fonds ou fonds commun multidonateur
    Numéro de projet

    7F10092

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