Transforming ASEAN Disaster Risk Management through Smart Early Warning and Early Action

Disaster Management Platform
Policy Brief
Transforming ASEAN Disaster Risk Management through Smart Early Warning and Early Action
10 April 2024
Disaster Management
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  • The provision of early disaster information and regional disaster mechanism by enhancing readiness activities and emergency response capabilities are critical in responding to disaster
  • A Multi-hazards Early Warning  System  is  critical in delivering early A good quality system supported by well-maintained  preparedness  will lead to timely and efficient early action, including pre-positioning stocks and pre-agreed early actions based on projected hazards.
  • Insufficient risk knowledge,  frontier  technology, and the poor utilisation of an early warning system hamper ASEAN’s capability to envisage various risk scenarios and vulnerabilities, and subsequently limits the ability to prepare for and strengthen its r
  • The unfamiliarity with the responsibilities, processes, and early warning systems of each stakeholder from local populations, national and local authorities, and regional agencies hinders the path toward ineffective prepar
  • ASEAN and ASEAN Member States are still ineffective in using frontier technology and analysis for risk assessments and monitoring in various early warning systems, despite their attempts to apply partially advanced technologies, as demonstrated during the 2018 disaster early warning system for stakeholders, including improving technical and hardware capacities will be increasingly critical. Enhancing warning products as part of the risk, warning, and disaster Information dissemination for local populations is as important as improving the technicalities of tsunami early warning systems.

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

  • Define ASEAN’s early actions and its implications to enhance early warning
  • Invest on frontier analyses and technologies to achieve better early warning capabilities to support ASEAN’s early
  • Incorporate an early warning system component to enhance regional emergency response
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