Community-Centered Flood Early Warning Systems in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic: Towards a Regional Platform for their Financial and Institutional Sustainability

Context:

After almost two decades of technical cooperation in community-centered flood early warning systems (EWS) in the Central American Isthmus
and the Dominican Republic, the lack of a harmonized methodology for
designing and implementing these systems is evident.
The vast number of organizations that design and implement community centered flood EWS has resulted in a lack of national and regional consistency
amongst the existing policies and procedures,
as reflected in various methodologies and manuals that are in use today.
This, in turn, hampers the ability of national institutions to
coordinate efforts among communities, municipalities and regional governments, as well as NGOs and cooperation agencies.