The HYCOS User Phase has three major action areas:
- Assess approaches and pathways related to flood information management to improve end user connectivity.
- Identify gaps in all four pillars of FEWS in Nepal, with a focus on dissemination and communication through desk research, key informant interviews, surveys, and stakeholder consultations.
- Document case studies on good practices associated with communicating flood early warning, including the use of indigenous knowledge in FEWS in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Pakistan.
- Develop communication strategies at all levels.
- Ensure that flood early warnings reach those who need it most, taking into account gender equity and social inclusion (GESI).
- Strengthen institutions at regional, national, and local levels in terms of end-user connectivity.
- Streamline dissemination and communication of flood early warning across and down multiple channels to end users.
- Improve the regional flood outlook for supporting the flood forecasting capacities of hydrometeorological agencies.
- Share good practices on communicating flood early warning.