A core priority of forming the Local Task Team for the PEOPLE Project on Early Warning for All under the WMO is to support and verify the broader project objectives through a grounded reality check, not from an academic or purely document-based perspective, but from the practical experiences and voices of stakeholders and actors at the local level. The Local Task Team will therefore engage directly with what is happening in ‘real’ life: what stakeholders and actors prioritize, their concerns, and surface the concrete enablers and barriers that influence the implementation of Early Warning for All. Such an inclusive, PEOPLE approach intentionally foregrounds perspectives of vulnerability and can help in identifying voiceless, at-risk groups, whose lived realities are rarely reflected in more formal strategies, planning documents, or official reporting, despite being central to building socially inclusive and socially sustainable early warning systems. By interviewing stakeholders and actors, examining real-world project experiences, and testing whether emerging insights can be translated into policy, planning, and implementation, the Local Task Team seeks to enrich and include various knowledge perspectives and practices and ensure that a range of inclusive voices inform decision-making at various levels.

In doing so, the Local Task Team directly supports the PEOPLE Project’s overarching research questions on how to identify and involve an inclusive range of people in EWS design and governance, what barriers and enablers shape urgent and scalable inclusive systems, and how context-appropriate arrangements can be sustained and adapted under evolving climate risks and socio-economic dynamics. This work also contributes to the project’s objectives of defining characteristics of anticipatory risk governance, identifying pathways for socially inclusive and scalable early warning systems, and documenting context-appropriate approaches that support durable and actionable outcomes. Ultimately, by validating these objectives against grounded realities, the Local Task Team strengthens co-production processes and advances a more meaningful, inclusive, and effective “Early Warnings for All.”