Medium-term strategy: Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS MTS), 2022-2030

Recommendation ICG/PTWS-XXVIII.3 requested the development of a draft PTWS Medium-Term Strategy for 2022-2029 to be discussed by the PTWS Steering Committee in 2020, and approved by the next ICG/PTWS session in 2021. The Medium-Term Strategy for 2022-2029 should take in account the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) process and the PTWS drivers of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. In 2020, the PTWS Steering Committee reviewed and provided comments on a first draft. The final draft addressed all comments and feedback and was approved at ICG/PTWS-XXIX.

Medium-term strategy: Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS MTS), 2014-2021

The PTWS Medium-Term Strategy (PTWSMTS) outlines the vision of a continuously improving Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) to meet stakeholder requirements during the period 2014–2021. This MTS is aligned with the eight year cycle of our parent body’s Medium–T erm Strategy. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) MTS (Resolution XXVII-2, part B) identifies early warning systems as an important part of its strategic vision and has aligned its MTS with the strategic planning cycle of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The PTWS MTS focuses on describing general and essential strategic objectives to ensure an effective and efficient tsunami warning and mitigation system that is interoperable wherever possible with the other ocean basins and seas. The structure of the PTWS Working Group (WG) derives from the PTWS MTS and is described in the PTWS Working Group Structure document (ICG/PTWS-XXIII, Annex VI). Details of the methods of accomplishing these strategic objectives are defined in the PTWS Implementation Plan (version 2, 2001, draft document, IOC Technical Series No 86).