Side Event 2

Bridging disciplines and building networks to future-proof multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) - young professional’s perspective

The session will showcase good practices and success stories of young professional’s contribution to designing and implementing people-centred early warning systems (EWS), as well as their views on future steps and challenges towards:

• Engaging across different sectors e.g. inter-governmental, NGOs, private sector, and academia. 
• Promoting knowledge exchange across disciplines e.g. between sociologists, information and communication technologies (ICT) and hydrologists, and across generations. 
• Development of governance mechanisms that support the integration of different disciplines and sectors to enable more people-centred EWS e.g. capacity building/training, partnerships/ networks, interdisciplinary teams/ roles.

The session will also hear from senior professionals developing interdisciplinary capacity building and training programmes to build the skills of the next generation of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) professionals. 
The Young Professional’s EWS network will be launched during the event. It offers one mechanism to improve interdisciplinary knowledge exchange between young professionals working on different aspects of people-centred MHEWS from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private sector globally.