22/10/2026
🇲🇿 Ready2Act | Strengthening operational links between forecasting, early warning and anticipatory action in
Increasingly accurate hydrometeorological forecasts are essential to early warning systems. Their effectiveness also depends on institutions' ability to jointly interpret information, assess impacts and act in time.
In Mozambique, has addressed this challenge across the entire operational chain, linking monitoring and forecasting tools with institutional coordination and warning mechanisms.
The use of myDewetra and Flood-PROOFS Mozambique has supported the integration of observations, hydrological forecasts and geospatial information, giving the INAM-Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Direcção Nacional de Gestão de Recursos Hídricos (DNGRH) and Instituto Nacional de Gestão e Redução do Risco de Desastres - INGD a shared information base and consistent assessments from national to provincial level.
This has strengthened the link between and : connecting forecast thresholds to potential , defining the steps from warning to decision-making, and clarifying responsibilities and timelines to maximise the time available to act.
Training and simulation exercises tested these connections in realistic scenarios, including information flows between the national (CENOE in Maputo) and provincial (COE Sofala in Beira) Emergency Operations Centre.
Developed through more than two years of cooperation between Mozambican and Italian institutions, this joint effort highlights the value of capacity development: strengthening technical expertise while enhancing institutional capacity to translate scientific information into coordinated operational processes.
In recent days, the final Ready2Act technical workshop in Maputo brought these elements together through a participatory approach, combining integrated analysis and group discussions to draw connections across three key experiences: the lessons learned from the 2025–2026 rainy season, the simulation exercise conducted in July 2026, and the Manual on Standard Operating Procedures for Activating Anticipatory Actions. Building on this collective reflection, participants were invited to develop concrete proposals to strengthen the link Early Warning-Early Action, outline implementation strategies, identify potential partners, and define indicators to measure the impact of the proposed actions.
The workshop also provided a valuable opportunity to reflect, directly with partners and stakeholders, on the project’s outcomes, gather feedback on its achievements and challenges, and jointly identify priority areas for future work.
👉 Find out more about the project: https://www.cimafoundation.org/en/project/ready2act/
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo - Sede di Maputo, Dipartimento Protezione Civile, WeWorld Global, Embaixada da Itália em Maputo / Ambasciata d'Italia a Maputo