INFORM CONSORTIUM
INFORM Warning Risk Monitoring and Alert Tool
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ABOUT
INFORM Warning is a state-of-the-art innovative global risk monitoring tool designed to anticipate complex risks up to a year in advance, directly linked to crisis funding instruments. It transcends traditional methods by presenting multi-hazard information from diverse sources. Its unique analysis offers insights into risk trends, forecasts, scenarios, and potential events leading to crisis impact.
Global
$700,000
24 months
GOALS
DEVELOP
A risk monitor that automatically aggregates dynamic indicators, showcasing evolving crisis risk to enhance crisis anticipation, prevention, and response.
PROVIDE
Country-specific warning levels highlight critical risk combinations leading to potential crises.
DEPLOY
An open-source web interface promoting immersive data exploration and capturing user feedback on INFORM Warning outputs.
OBJECTIVES
With CRAF'd support, INFORM Warning enables ecosystem partners to allocate resources earlier, faster and in a more targeted way. INFORM Warning is a key component of the INFORM product family, which includes INFORM Risk, INFORM Severity, and INFORM Climate Change. Together, they offer a comprehensive set of tools tailored to enhance crisis anticipation, prevention, and response, including humanitarian anticipatory action. With its global reach and the support of 35 high-profile Consortium partners, INFORM Warning promotes a coordinated, evidence-based strategy, ensuring more effective anticipatory actions, reduces crisis impacts, and fosters a more resilient world.
$1BN
Crisis aid facilitated that arrives earlier, faster, and more targeted and dignified way.
100
Ecosystem Partners using
INFORM Warning.
50
Open access data sets
provided per year.
UPDATES
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DATA FOR PEACE
At the Data for Peace Conference the INFORM Warning team showcased the value of quantified, multi-hazard information supporting anticipatory action and timely data-driven interventions for better crisis action.
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INFORM PRODUCTS
The new INFORM Warning tool is a key component of the INFORM product family, that bridges the gap between INFORM Risk Index, INFORM Severity Index, and INFORM Climate Change.
UNDP’s development investments help countries and communities chart pathways out of crisis. INFORM Warning - hosted by UNDP and the INFORM Partnership and supported by CRAF’d - provides analysis that helps anticipate and inform action that mitigates the impact of crises. Making this available to partners across the multilateral system supports all of us to act early and save lives.
Shoko Noda
Assistant Administrator and Director, Crisis Bureau, UNDP