1. Tools used for issuing alerts
- Public and commercial broadcasters -Television and Radio
- Print Media
- Social media platform - Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp
2. Who received alerts
The audience are
- The general public
- Farmers (livestock farming, crop farming , forestry)
- Government Ministries
- Disaster Risk Management
- Local businesses
- Non governmental organizations
Weather alerts are an essential service delivered to the community at large, in the sense that it provides accurate and effective transfer of information, in order for national response measures to be implemented well in advance to minimize the impacts of a disaster.
3. Standards used for authoring, reviewing and publishing alerts
- Namibia Meteorological Services is the designated alerting authority to issue advisories. Namibia is largely impacted by droughts, floods, flash flooding.