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New 'Pick and Mix' Early Warnings Service Launched by WFP
ROME (Reliefweb) The new 'Pick and Mix' Early Warning service created by WFP’s Early Warning, Analysis and Support team allows WFP staff and partners in other agencies to personalize and customize exactly what information they receive.
The service, created by the team and its own in-house software engineer, is simple. All you have to do is subscribe (click HERE to subscribe) and make your Early Warning choices. If, for example, you are interested in the countries which fall under one of WFP’s Regional Bureaux, then just select them. Or, if the focus of your work is a single country, then sign up for only that one. You may need to know about a specific hazard – such as when countries in a particular region will face the risk of flooding. A brand new interactive version of the team’s Seasonal and Hazards Calendar will tell you what you need to know at the click of a mouse on a simple, clear coloured box.
The Seasonal and Hazards Calendar brings together both seasonal information and historical data to allow the best preparedness activities possible. Programme designers have already found the Calendar very useful in telling them the most productive – and least disruptive – times to carry out activities. Now, WFP’s Pandemic Response Unit is offering it to National Disaster Management Organisations in Africa to help them plan together the optimum times to do joint training in planning for and responding to very large scale emergencies, like a severe pandemic.
Download the Seasonal and Hazards calendar here!
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