World Meteorological Organization analyses thirty-five national early warning roadmaps

29 October 2026

On 29 October 2026 the World Meteorological Organization put out an analysis of 35 government-validated roadmaps for multi-hazard early warning systems, drawn up under the EW4All initiative. Over 50 countries are now carrying the rollout forward, and as of 13 August 2026 fifty had launched a roadmap with the Organization's help. Those 35 countries hold about 960 million people, including 339 million children up to the age of 14 and 128 million young people between 18 and 24. Across the roadmaps sixteen different hazards are prioritised, ranging from weather and water hazards to geological ones and to hazards that are not natural at all. Clear budgets appear in twenty of the roadmaps, totalling about 1.38 billion US dollars, which averages roughly 69 million US dollars for each country. The analysis connects the roadmaps to the Sendai Framework, to national adaptation plans and to nationally determined contributions, and names regional bodies such as ECOWAS, ECCAS, SADC and ASEAN.