IASC alert, early warning and readiness report: November 2015 - April 2016
The report highlights serious risks that were either identified as being of particular strategic operational concern or as having a high probability and impact on humanitarian needs. It includes an analysis of the state of readiness which is compared against each risk. The featured risks are divided into conflict and natural hazard risks and include a detailed risk analysis section followed by an associated preparedness analysis. The risk analysis assesses the risk’s drivers and projects trends while the preparedness analysis looks at the IASC system’s readiness level as well as national capacities to cope with identified risks.
The report includes a substantial section on El Niño. This is in the form of both an alert for the ongoing El Niño episode and a warning for the potential effects in the lead up to the peak of this El Niño event. It provides more details on past and potential impacts in the affected regions as well as a meteorological analysis of potential El Niño conditions expected over the period covered by this report.
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