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Title: Role of WMO in Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Ivan Obrusn


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Role of WMO in Natural Disaster Risk
Reduction Ivan Obrusník, Czech
Hydrometeorological Institute

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WMO Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Program(originally Disaster prevention and
Mitigation
  • Established by the XIV. WMO Congress in 2003
  • Strategy approved by the WMO EC LVI in June
    2004
  • First urgent tasks
  • - preparation for the WCDR in Kobe 2005
  • - To enhance involvement of WMO and NMHSs in
  • DR activities at international and
    national levels
  • - To establish the network of experts
  • - To develop informational materials and a
    Website
  • - To enhance the crosscutting coordination
    within
  • the WMO Secretariat, Programs and
    Technical
  • Comissions


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WMO Programmes
World Weather Watch Program
WMO Space Program Natural Disaster Prevention
and Mitigation Program
Atmospheric Research and Environment Programme
Hydrology and Water Resources Programme
Applications of Meteorology Programme
World Climate Programme
Education and Training Programme Technical
Cooperation Programme Regional Programme
WMO/OMM
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NMHSs
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objectives are
  •   To encourage and assist Members in
    developing/enhancing
  • NMHSs contributions to national disaster
    preparedness
  • programs in a more integrated manner,
    especially in
  • coordination with national civil
    defense/disaster
  • coordination Office. NMHSs should be the
    authoritative
  • voice in issuing weather warning for public
    safety at the
  • national level.
  •  
  • To ensure that activities and results of
    relevant WMO
  • Programs are fully used in the process of
    WMOs
  • participation in the International Strategy
    for Disaster
  • Reduction (ISDR


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Goals of the WMO Disaster Risk Reduction Program
Goal 1 Promote greater emphasis on proactive
strategies for prevention and preparedness on the
basis of a multi-hazard framework WMO will
pursue this through intergovernmental programs in
partnership with international organizations and
its own information and public awareness
activities. It will demonstrate the benefits of
investments in hydrometeoro-logical services
critical to all stages of a proactive risk
management strategy especially the benefits of
risk assessment and early warning systems at the
national level. As part of WMOs participation
in ISDR, it will promote raising awareness at the
ministerial level of the relation between
preventive, proactive risk management strategies
and economic development. It will also increase
awareness among the public and decision makers of
the causes and consequences of natural hazards.
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  • Goal 2 Ensure that WMO core technical and
    scientific capabilities, particularly for risk
    assessment and early warning systems, are
    integrated optimally in all relevant phases of
    disaster risk management at the international,
    regional and national levels
  • Through a user-driven approach and in
    partnerships with key organizations, WMO is
    analysing the scientific and technical
    information needs of various components of the
    disaster risk management decision-making chain.
    It is identifying and strengthening the relevant
    capabilities and activities within its own
    programs. In conjunction, WMO is establishing a
    comprehensive set of best practices, related to
    utilization of scientific and technical
    information in disaster risk reduction.
  • It will factor those results into development
    of integrated products and services for the
    various stages of disaster risk management. WMO
    will do these through close collaboration with
    the natural disaster risk management community.

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  • Goal 3 Promote and enhance the role of National
    Meteorological and Hydrological Services as a
    critical component of the national risk reduction
    platforms, particularly within developing
    countries
  • WMO will implement result-driven end-to-end
    projects in different regions for different
    hazards. These activities will be carried out in
    working with WMOs global network of World
    Meteorological Centres (WMCs), Regional
    Specialized Meteorological Centres (RSMCs) and
    the NMHSs of its 187 Members, by leveraging WMOs
    current activities as well as new initiatives.
  • WMO will demonstrate the potential benefits in
    disaster risk management of its scientific and
    technical products and services that can be
    implemented through NMHSs at the national level.
    Through activities such as sharing of best
    practices, technology transfer, training and
    capacity building, WMO will help the NMHSs
    deliver products and services in an effective and
    timely manner to meet national needs for hazard
    information.

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  • Goal 4 Raise awareness to the magnitude of
    cost-benefits from investments in natural
    disaster prevention, particularly in early
    warning systems
  • WMO will conduct socio-economic studies to
    demonstrate more clearly the minimal resources
    needed in natural disaster prevention, in
    comparison to the much larger magnitude of
    funding involved in response and recovery
    efforts. The studies will also address the social
    costs, such as those related to deaths and
    damages, societal impacts of retarded economic
    growth, etc.
  • These activities will be carried out in
    partnership with major economic development
    commissions, insurance and re-insurance
    companies, UN organizations, international and
    regional development banks, relevant
    non-governmental organizations, and other
    international, regional and national
    organizations.

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  • Goal 5 Work together with international,
    regional and national partners and the private
    sector to build A Safer World
  • WMO, as a major partner in the ISDR, is
    addressing the weather, climate and water issues
    at the core of the culture of prevention with all
    the organizations within the ISDR.
  • WMO has also cemented partnerships with
    other organizations within and in addition to the
    United Nations system, in specific sectors such
    as health, transportation, energy, agriculture
    and forestry, water resource management, and
    tourism. DRR will work to strengthen the existing
    partnerships and develop new ones

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Main goals and strategy
  •   Regional expert groups (5 experts per WMO
    Region)
  • Network of focal points (located in NMHSs)
  •   Capacity building activities (training,
    workshops)
  • Strategy for the cooperation with other
    international
  • organizations e.g. IATF (ISDR)
  • Establishment of a Natural Disaster
    Information
  • System
  • Establishment of an inventory of relevant best
  • practices (similar to WMO HOMS)
  • Emergency and Disaster Response Activities
  • EC AG on Natural Disaster Reduction and
    Mitigation
  • as an advisory body to guide the program on
    all aspects
  • of natural disaster prevention and
    mitigation.


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  • Recent enlargement of EU
  • significant change it could help to improve
  • funding and level of NMHSs and DR Platforms
  • (committees) in the new EU countries
  • WMO can help with contacts to EC
  • Possibilities of common programs (projects)
  • early warning in NMHSs, numerical weather
  • or climate modeling
  • cooperation in disaster reduction e.g. CEUDIP
  • (training, early warning)
  • others (?)
  • typical networking suitable for EU funding
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