Community Outreach & Stakeholder Feedback

Strengthening the user interface of early warning systems.

RIMES adopts a unified user-centric approach that combines the overall enhancement of the national institutional framework underpinning DRR/DRM planning, emergency response, and disaster reporting, with robust context-driven last-mile communication and feedback mechanisms.

RIMES supports national frameworks for climate services and provides feedback to authorities for identifying and addressing gaps in the early warning information and service value chain through capacity building on end-to-end early warning at all levels.

RIMES links vulnerable groups to available institutional resources and services for adaptive response with the goal to strengthen resilience and preparedness. RIMES facilitates customization of DSS and pilot demonstrations at the community level to ensure that early warning information reaches communities and is acted upon to undertake forecast-based actions.

Focus Areas

Societal Application

In order to assess and address evolving societal demands and needs, RIMES adopts a user-centered bottom-up approach that focuses on the user needs and demands as a driving factor to guide the entire process of climate/weather service co-production. RIMES engages with both the service providers and end-users to create an enabling environment to sustainably deliver […]

Strengthening Last Mile Communication

Low- and middle-income countries in this region face disproportionate humanitarian impacts with severe socio-economic losses every year due to structural barriers in applying warning information. While countries in the region are working to streamline their early action plan and early warning services in order to mitigate the impacts of climate-induced disasters, there is a need […]

Pilot demonstrations on End-to-End Early Warning Systems

An effective people-centered early warning system has four interrelated and equally important elements: risk knowledge, monitoring and warning service, dissemination and communication, and response capability. All four elements are central to a people-centered early warning system, and gaps in any of the elements can lead to the failure of an early warning system. RIMES provides […]