The IOC-UNESCO Tsunami Ready recognition program is an international performance-based initiative that facilitates community preparedness for tsunamis. The voluntary program promotes an understanding of the concept of readiness as an active collaboration among national and local warning and emergency management agencies, government authorities, scientists, community leaders, and the public. Its main goals are to improve community preparedness for tsunamis and to minimize the loss of life, livelihoods and property associated with such events. This is achieved through a structured and systematic approach to fulfill a set of established best-practice tsunami preparedness indicators. By fulfilling the indicators, communities become aware of the risks they face from tsunamis, take steps to address them, and build resilience. On the occasion of the World Tsunami Awareness Day [5 November], The Indian Ocean Tsunami Information Centre (IOTIC), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS), is organizing a webinar on Tsunami Ready in Indian Ocean Island States (Comoros, France’s Indian Ocean Territories [La Réunion], Indonesia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste). The objective of this webinar is to provide broad understanding of the IOC-UNESCO Tsunami Ready program and to discuss the challenges, gaps, and needs to implement the Tsunami Ready indicators in Indian Ocean Island States. The expected outcome of this webinar is a recommendation for implementation plan to pilot the Tsunami Ready indicators in Indian Ocean Island States. The audience of this webinar will be nominated delegates from Indian Ocean Island States representing the National Tsunami Warning Centers, Disaster Management Offices (national and local), NGOs, INGOs, CSOs, universities (lecturers and students), and communities.