The WMO Severe Weather Forecasting Programme (SWFP) allows to improve forecasts and warnings of severe weather to save lives and livelihoods, and protect property and infrastructure. SWFP currently involves around 100 developing countries in ten subregions of the world including Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, South-East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Caribbean, Central America and South Pacific, with contributions from the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS) and support from development partners and donors. As an enabler to MHEWS and the UN Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative, SWFP is being scaled up to expand its geographical coverage to additional subregions involving more countries, and to facilitate improved tools and guidance products for the NMHSs to enhance their early warning service capabilities. In recent years, four additional countries (Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia and Sudan) have joined SWFP in Africa. SWFP is also implemented in Central America in addition to expansion of SWFP to the whole Caribbean. SWFP implementation has also been in progress in Southeastern Asia-Oceania and La Plata Basin (South America) subregions since 2025 and 2026 respectively. SWFP makes efficient use of the “Cascading Forecasting Process” (from global to regional to national level) with contributions from the WIPPS Designated Centres. SWFP, in collaboration with Public Weather Services (PWS) programme, has also been strengthening capacity of the participating countries on impact-based forecast and warning services (IBFWS) for improved decision-making, i.e. to deliver potential effects of forecast weather on users and stakeholders. SWFP contributes to several WMO long-term goals & strategic objectives.