Description:
The "climate-related disaster community resilience framework" was developed by a team of researchers in the preparedness, crisis, and natural disaster field. Using a mixed-methods study, they wanted to investigate exciting early warning and monitoring systems for extreme weather events such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan. The aim of their work was to identify gaps and needs of the population to provide guidelines for the development of a multi-hazard early warning system to reduce disaster losses and build societal resilience. Their final recommendations state that early warning systems should link all hazard-related systems. In addition, the warning system should be people-centred, involve local communities and incorporate local indigenous knowledge and information about the hazards and risks. To reach everyone, the system should be tailored to the different vulnerable groups. To develop an effective and sustainable warning system, there must be good cooperation between the different institutional and governmental levels involved and the local community.
The solution could help to address the following needs of first responders and authorities:
Communicate with or alert citizens
Improve preparedness level among citizens