The Climate Risk and Early Warning System (CREWS) Caribbean Project 1.0, co-funded by the CREWS Initiative, and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), was implemented by the WMO, the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (WB/GFDRR), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) with regional implementing partners, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), CIMH, and CMO Headquarters. The CREWS Caribbean Project had three components.
The CMO Headquarters and the WMO signed an Implementing Arrangement in April 2020 for the delivery of aspects of the CREWS-Caribbean Project Component 2 through the project, which helped National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) of CMO Member States and their governments to strengthen legislative, policy, and strategic frameworks.
The CMO Headquarters and the WMO signed a second Implementing Arrangement under CREWS 1.0 in June 2022, which supported the outcomes listed below.
In October 2003, the European Commission approved a €13.2 million Regional Project to construct and install four new digital weather radars in the Caribbean to replace an old and obsolete radar network installed by the CMO in the late sixties and early seventies. The Project will link the new radars with others already in place to form a modern network of nine radars as part of the Caribbean Early Warning System for severe weather conditions.
The CMO and the Disaster Reduction and Recovery Unit/UNDP regional office in the Caribbean collaborated on another project directly linked to the radar project. This one year project, funded through the regional Disaster Preparedness Program – ECHO, will use the radar images provided by the new network which would then made available, with appropriate training, to natural disaster preparedness organizations and agencies in the Caribbean. The CMO/UNDP collaboration will start with existing radars in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic , both of which will cover these two countries and Haiti . The idea is to extend this dynamic to the rest of the region once the four new radars become operational.
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Caribbean Project, a project funded by the Government of Finland under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), aims to provide tools for better planning for sustainable development in the Caribbean region, by strengthening the National Meteorological Services so that they are able to provide information needed for planning purposes at national and international levels, and to make the respective countries capable of fulfilling international commitments.
There are six components in the project: