The workshop provided an important platform to affirm MRC's commitment to the national EW4All roadmap and to advance the partnerships needed to make early warning systems more accessible, more equitable, and more effective for the communities MRC serves.
During the workshop, MRC presented a progress update on itspartnership with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on community-based disaster risk reduction between 2023 and 2025. During this period, together with NDMA, MRC implemented community-based disaster risk management programmes across 12 island communities, strengthening local preparedness capacities and embedding risk reduction practices at the community level. This work was complemented by a series of regional and national forums that advanced institutional coordination and multi-stakeholder engagement, highlighting MRC's role as a core actor in the national DRR landscape.
In addition, MRC presented its proposals for strategic collaboration with MMS and NDMA under the TRACT Project and the national EW4All roadmap, where MRC serves as lead for Pillar 4: Preparedness and Response. The proposals centre on interconnected areas including :-
Joint development of a structured climate literacy curriculum that links forecast knowledge to community-level action
Integration of heat action awareness into volunteer and community training programmes; and the translation of MMS weather and climate data into plain-language alerts that drive anticipatory action at the last mile.
MRC also raised the potential for volunteers to support on-ground maintenance of Automatic Weather Stations across islands — a practical mechanism to deepen community ownership of early warning infrastructure.
The workshop reinforced MRC's commitment to the national EW4All roadmap and the partnerships needed to make early warning more accessible and more actionable for the communities it serves.
