FOREWARN 2024 Newsletter

The Forecast-based Warning, Analysis and Response Network (FOREWARN) works to support Start Network members to act ahead of hazardous events and their impacts. In 2024, there were five active FOREWARN countries at various stages of development: Bangladesh, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines. FOREWARN aims to identify the high-quality hazard and risk information shared and produced by scientists and experts, and to operationalise this information to improve anticipatory humanitarian action. In every context, FOREWARN promotes and advocates for the mainstreaming of risk-informed anticipatory and early action.

The FOREWARN newsletter takes a look back across the 2024 successes of the Start Network Forecast-based Warning, Analysis and Response Network (FOREWARN) in Bangladesh, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines. Featuring formation of new expert groups in Pakistan, technical partnerships in Madagascar, hackathons in Bangladesh and Nepal, risk briefings and citizen science initiatives in the Philippines and more.