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Somalia has experienced more than 30 climate-related hazards since 1990, including 12 droughts and 19 floods. This exposed the country's limited capacity for disaster risk management and the vulnerability of the people to these recurrent crises. With poor and fragmented early warning systems in the country, climatic disasters, particularly floods, droughts, and locust invasions, continue to affect the people every year and result in the loss of livelihoods and the destruction of infrastructure.
An early warning system is a vital tool for proper disaster risk reduction and management in the country to disseminate and better communicate with affected communities in the disaster-prone areas to create resilience pathways and help them cope with and withstand climatic shocks.
Early warning systems in the country aren't enough to disseminate the most needed information to the right people, which poses a greater gap in the early warning mechanism. The country's early warning system is faced by fragmented and uncoordinated platforms provided by different agencies, accompanied by poor dissemination and communication channels.
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The warnings are provided via online systems to the different concerned partners and organizations, with a focus on weather, rainfall, floods, droughts, cyclones, and locust outbreaks.
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An effective early warning system saves lives, economies, and infrastructure and mitigates the impacts of disasters or climatic shocks while ultimately developing proactive and early preparedness measures in the community for an incoming threat. In Somalia, improving the country's early warning system is vital for its capacity to cope with the recurrent and repetitive drought and flooding that affect millions of people in the country and cause lots of economic and property loss.
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