The Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready Summit 2026 will be held on 16 November 2026 in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, immediately preceding the Fifteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS-XV). As an official event of the ICG/IOTWMS and held in conjunction with World Tsunami Awareness Day, the Summit will bring together Member States, Tsunami Ready practitioners, community representatives, technical partners, and international organizations to advance tsunami preparedness and resilience across the Indian Ocean region.

The Summit is dedicated exclusively to the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme (TRRP) and will provide an opportunity to review progress in implementation, share lessons learned from recognized communities, and identify priorities for scaling up tsunami preparedness efforts towards 2030. Participants will examine approaches to sustaining recognition, strengthening community resilience, engaging critical infrastructure and the tourism sector, and integrating Tsunami Ready into national disaster risk reduction frameworks.

A central feature of the Summit will be the official recognition ceremony for newly recognized and renewed Tsunami Ready communities across the Indian Ocean, showcasing achievements and promoting wider adoption of community-based tsunami preparedness measures. The Summit will also consider a proposed Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready Summit Statement, outlining regional priorities and commitments for the period 2027–2030.

Hosted by the Sultanate of Oman through its Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and organized by the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO), the Summit supports the goals of the Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme and the IOTWMS Medium-Term Strategy 2026–2030, contributing to the shared vision of a safer and more resilient Indian Ocean.

Participants are requested to register for the event at: https://forms.gle/kW4ZVLzUqvvHAzib6

Please note the following important dates:

• 30 September 2026: Confirmation of Member State participation.
• 30 October 2026: Deadline for submission of communities proposed for the Recognition Ceremony (communities must have already received UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition by this date).
• 2 November 2026: Deadline for participant registration.