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Success and Failure Stories of Ethiopian Early Warning System

Negesse Asnake Asnake*

Corresponding Author: Negesse Asnake Asnake, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Received: February 17, 2022 ;    Revised: February 22, 2022 ;    Accepted: February 24, 2022

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ABSTRACT

Ethiopia is the most disaster-prone area due to its geopolitics, socio- economic condition. The Ethiopia government has been working to prevent these disasters through early warning system. The purpose of this study was to explore the success and failure stories of Ethiopian early warning system. This is desktop review. Data collected through document review from different website such as Google scholar, research get and other. The collected data analyzed thematically based on the specific objectives of the study. The finding of the study showed that Ethiopia has established early warning system since 1970s famine. The success stories of Ethiopian early warning system were prevention of recurrent famine, reduced flood, advanced from fame disaster focused into multi hazard focus, single sector to multi sectorial hazard, from disaster management into disaster risk management. The failure stories of Ethiopian EWS were lack of coordination, qualified personnel, technology, and rural area focus. The conflict, fire, and traffic accident early warning system are very weak.

Keywords: Disaster, Early warning systems, Hazards, Vulnerability, Success, Failure.

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