Spotlight Session: Early Warnings for All

This session will provide an opportunity for the two prep days: the UNDRR Stakeholder Forum and the Multi-Stakeholder Early Warning for All communities to come together and identify aligning focus, messages and action points ahead of the GPDRR.

Here, we will spotlight what Early Warnings for All looks like in practice, outline why it is so important for early warning and anticipatory action to be locally led, turning the last mile into the first and why it needs to take a whole of society, full value chain approach. It will also create space for youth practitioners on both sides to come together for a youth interlude on Early Warnings and Anticipatory Action for all.

The session's overall aims are to (1) increase awareness of early warning for all from both the UNDRR SEM and MSFEW4ALL perspective and (2) foster collaboration across the DRR and EW4ALL stakeholder communities of practice and support one another in key messaging and recommendations at the GPDRR 2025 and beyond.

Session objectives

• Increase collaboration across the GPDRR preparatory day agenda and messaging  
• Provide a space for practitioners from both the UNDRR SEM and the MSF EW4ALL communities to come together to align areas of work.
• Enhance synergies and collaboration between thought leaders, policy-makers, NGOs and CSOs and significant stakeholders to advance ambition Early Warning and Anticipatory Action commitments. 

Outcomes

• Overlapping areas of work identified
• Key joint messages identified
• Increased awareness and connections made across communities of practice
• A localised practitioner example clearly illustrating the connections between the UNDRR SEM and MSEW4ALL communication on the ground 

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