This report provides a broad overview of the landscape of Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the climate-induced natural hazard with a specific focus on flood in Afghanistan, in order to identify past achievements and current and future entry points for further improvement of the system in the country, with the ultimate goal of reducing disasters risks.
The report is divided into four chapters. The first chapter of the report provides an overview of the basics of an EWS and the CBEWS. The second chapter of the report presents the historical background of climate-induced disasters in the country. The third chapter of the report provides an overview of the current state of EWS in Afghanistan with a specific focus on flood EWS. The chapter focuses on the existing legal framework of EWS, the institutional arrangement of EWS, and the current status of FEWS, highlighting its major challenges and provides recommendations. The fourth and last chapter of this report includes the annexes, one of the annexes is the report of a case study on CBEWS installed by AKAH in Shughnan district of Badakhshan province. In the other annex, an institutional arrangement is proposed for EWS in Afghanistan.
