Effective early warning system stressed

Antalya (Turkiye): Ensuring an inclusive, effective and community-friendly early warning system has been stressed to reduce growing hazards and human casualties.

During a discussion on ‘From Bhotekoshi to Resilience: Strengthening Inclusive Multi-Hazard Early Warning System in Nepal’ organised at the Nepal Pavilion under COP-31 here today, the speakers spoke on the need to strengthen the early warning system with access, technology, institutional cooperation and financial resource management.

On the occasion, chief executive officer of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, Dharma Raj Uprety, shared that the government had forwarded the policy-level, institutional and technical preparations to make the early warning system more effective.

A robust system is imperative to regularly monitor temperature, glaciers and other natural processes in the Himalayan region, according to him.

Similarly, executive director of Rural Oriented Youth Movement Nepal, Luv Raj Neupane, argued that although there is a government agency in Nepal for disseminating disaster-related early warnings, the system relaying such information to the community level has not been inclusive and effective.

He added that District Disaster Management Committees, local disaster management committees and ward-level committees under the Home Ministry have the responsibility to disseminate disaster-related information at communities where there is much dependency on mobile messages.

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