The Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized the Early Warning System (EWS) Investment Planning Workshop on 2 September 2025 in Manila.

This workshop contributed to the goal of increasing investments and access to climate information and early warning systems (CIEWS). This was a key target of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative. It was also a commitment under the Paris Agreement and a development imperative underpinning the Sustainable Development Goals.

The workshop provided a platform for government ministries, development partners, and ADB sector and thematic groups to discuss the importance of CIEWS and their sectoral applications in current and future investments. In particular, the workshop supported selected developing member countries (DMCs) of ADB (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Uzbekistan) in transitioning their EW4All national roadmaps and national framework for climate services, in consideration of their country program strategies with ADB, into investment programs that could be integrated into their medium-term planning, economic, and fiscal frameworks.

The specific objectives were to:

• Discuss the status of and the rationale for increasing investments in CIEWS in the region.

• Discuss the status of the EW4All national roadmaps, the national framework for climate services, country priorities, as applicable, and required support for CIEWS in relation to the DMCs’ country program strategies.

• Identify potential high-level investment concepts in CIEWS linked to key sectoral applications.

• Explore how finance ministries and the countries’ economic sectors could develop and sustain CIEWS investments.