Effective preparedness,

early emergency and

response
Resilient cities

principles of effective early warning

systems
Political recognition
4 essential components: 1)detection,
monitoring and forecasting; 2) analysis of
risks and integration of information;
3)timely dissemination of warnings and
clear roles and duties; 4) participative
creation of preparedness and response
plans.
All roles and duties clearly defined with
established backup mechanisms

principles of effective early warning

systems
Sustainable design and
implementation od MHEWS (multihazard early warning systems)
Information about risks, exposure
and vulnerability are used for risk
assesment
Warnings should be issued by an
authoritative source
Timely and reliable warning
dissemination mechanisms

principles of effective early warning

systems
Preparedness plans must be focused
on the needs of vulnerable
comunities, authorities and those
who are responsible to react in
emergency situations
Regular training is required
Effective feedback mechanism for
improving the systems need to be
established

Legal framework
The new Law on Meteorological and
Hydrological activity ("Official Gazette of the Republic of
Serbia, No. 88/10) has identified as a priority the
development of hydro-meteorological
early warning systems, including hydrometeorological hazard mapping, development of meteorological
and hydrological databases, including the information on
meteorological and hydrological disasters, creation of the
national infrastructure of spatial meteorological and hydrological
data in accordance with the EU INSPIRE directive, and the
assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and options
for adaptation to natural disasters related to climate change.

Legal framework
The new Law on Emergency Situations
(July 2010) has shifted the focus from
preparedness and response to disaster
prevention and risk reduction. The Law
encompasses the guidelines and proposals of the United Nations International Strategy for
Disaster Risk Reduction (UN / ISDR), as well as basic principles of Hyogo Framework for
Action.

National Strategy for Protection and Rescue participation of appointed representatives of all competent authorities,
scientific and educational institutions, non-governmental associations (The Serbian Red

Republic
Hydrometeorological Service is the most important
participant.
Cross,humanitarian organizations and other relevant associations).

Legal framework
The Law on local self-government
all municipalities should organize
some kind of reaction or defence
agencies in emergency situations.
This is not the case in real life
Obrenovac was fully dependent on
the Sector for emergency
situations of the Ministry of the
Interior.

Institutional framework
Sector for emergency situations

Sector for emergency

situations
The strategic axes of activity of the
SEM are:
Development of Emergency Plans;
Adoption of National Strategy for
Disaster Risk Reduction;
Implementation of a single European
emergency call number 112;
Enhancement of international
cooperation.

Institutional framework
Republic Hydrometeorological Services of Serbia

Duties:
provide timely information
(vulnerability assesments, risk maps)
to the sector for emergency
situations
monitoring, detection, forecasting
and issuing of warnings for hydrometeorological hazards

Republic Hydrometeorological Services

of Serbia

Conclusion or How should we

organize our EWS
Shared responsibilities for gathering information
Real-time GIS platform for gathering, analyzing and
understanding information about hazards
Quality warning dissemination mechanisms
Centres for response in emergency situations should exist
at local level
Perfect cooperation and coordination of everyone involved
4 components - 1)detection, monitoring and forecasting;
2) analysis of risks and integration of information; 3)timely
dissemination of warnings and clear roles and duties; 4)
participative creation of preparedness and response plans.