Early warnings and knowledge about weather anomalies are an important adaptation tool for residents about disasters in flood and landslide-prone areas. There was a mismatch in the formal warning system and the actual rainfall intensity in the region due to sudden cloud burst events in recent times. This project proposal addresses the gap in early warning systems , lack of community knowledge on climate impacts.
Establishment of a community-based early warning system in connection with natural calamities such as floods and landslides to reduce human and resource loss, using IoT based weather monitoring instruments which do not require any human assistance and ensure effectiveness by giving a series of climate education sessions for understanding climate crisis. We identify that lack of decision making by people at the onset of a disaster actually contributed for increased causalities. This is primarily because people are not knowledgeable about climate change impacts. So it is important to invest on building knowledge dissemination among people to enhance disaster preparedness. The timely effective early warning system for possible landslides and floods and the adaptation of quick survival measures with the support of learned communities with the help of Local Self Government under DDMA is the most successful and low-cost model for the mitigation. The model will then be available for replication in other areas. The area of implementation will be the two landslide highly landslide-prone areas in Wayanad district were thousands of people are living in mountain slopes such as the slopes of Manikunnumala, Kurumbalakotta and Thrissilery region of Wayanad
Timeline for the project : 24 months
Budget will cover equipment, training, Testing, and resources.
Rotary clubs will be involved in setting up community corps, funding equipment and resources, monitoring and liason with district administration
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Project Status
Need $9,200
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