Bangladesh: Advancing Early Warnings for All

Complementing this national framework, UNDRR worked with government, humanitarian, and development partners to build a shared national risk picture that integrates climate, conflict, and socioeconomic data. Findings, such as how short-term emergency actions like borehole drilling can affect long-term drought resilience, inform the national roadmap and guide risk-informed planning across ministries and partners. At the same time, UNDRR is supporting the development of a national risk knowledge roadmap and disaster loss databases, enabling Somalia to better collect and analyse historical disaster data, inform risk-informed planning, and produce more accurate early warning products tailored to local contexts. 

These national efforts have been reinforced through a series of capacity-building workshops and consultations that have shaped Somalia’s early warning system and strengthened institutional capacity. Together, they have helped align national institutions, define clear responsibilities, and build the technical foundations needed for effective early warning delivery. Somalia’s progress is further reinforced through the Early Warnings for All multi-stakeholder accelerator funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), which supports national coordination, strengthens system-wide early warning capacities, and helps maintain essential services in a fragile and conflict-affected context. Complementing this, Denmark’s budget support has helped strengthen climate and risk information systems, improve hazard monitoring and forecasting capacities, and reinforce the enabling policy environment needed for coordinated multi-hazard early warning services, in line with the MHEWS for All Africa Action Plan 2023–2027. 

Building on this, ITU is supporting Somalia to strengthen emergency communications and scale up mobile alerting under EW4All. This includes the development and government adoption of the National Emergency Telecommunications Plan (NETP), training to operationalize its protocols, and the introduction of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for coordinated multi-channel warning dissemination. ITU has further supported innovative tools such as the Early Warning Connectivity Map and Disaster Connectivity Map to improve alert delivery in remote and high-risk areas, and completed a national Cell Broadcast readiness assessment to guide Somalia’s transition toward fast, location-based public alerting. 

Key steps include: 

• National simulation exercises (2025): With support from CREWS Somalia, national authorities conducted simulation exercises that allowed participants to test procedures, clarify institutional roles, and strengthen coordination across national, local, and community actors under simulated real-time conditions. 

• National Multistakeholder Workshop on Policy and Regulatory Framework of Emergency Telecommunications and Cell Broadcast Early Warning Systems (April 2025): This workshop organized by ITU, in collaboration with the National Communications Authority (NCA) and SoDMA,  strengthened governance and regulation for effective alerting systems in Somalia. 

• National consultation on enhancing risk management in Somalia (October 2024): This consultation was organized by UNDRR and SoDMA to build capacity in disaster loss data collection and analysis, train officials on disaster loss databases, and integrate data-driven approaches into early warning and decision-making. The workshop concluded with the comprehensive consultation of Somalia’s Early Warning Systems (EWS) roadmap. 

• Advancing Risk Knowledge to Improve Somalia’s Disaster Early Warning System workshop (July 2024): Hosted by UNDRR ROAS and SoDMA, this workshop convened government officials, experts, and international partners to strengthen Somalia’s disaster early warning systems. The agenda focused on national roadmaps, best practices, data synthesis, and inclusive early warning approaches, including the vital role of women in disaster risk reduction. 

• Pillar 2 coordination and capacity-building workshops (2024): WMO organized a series of national consultations and trainings that strengthened coordination among key actors, expanded stakeholder engagement, and built core capacities needed to improve forecasting and warning services in support of EW4All implementation. These efforts contribute to strengthening Somalia’s ability to provide weather and hydro-climate services, including by enhancing its digital presence, supporting the use of the Common Alerting Protocol, advancing legislation, establishing the Somali National Meteorological Agency (SNMA), and reinforcing seasonal forecasting through the National Climate Outlook Forums. 

• High-level NMHS planning workshop (April 2025): WMO and national partners convened senior government and development actors to agree on a shared vision and governance framework for Somalia’s NMHS and to initiate a five-year National Strategic Plan to guide its institutional development. 

Somalia’s EW4All work is also supported by the Green Climate Fund’s EW4All Accelerator Project, approved February 2025, which is helping to close observation gaps, improve coordination, and operationalize early warning services. In parallel, the launch of the National Emergency Telecommunications Plan (NETP), developed with ITU, established governance structures, policies, and coordination mechanisms to ensure communications remain available during all disaster phases.