MENA Dialogue Platform postponed

Due to recent escalations in the region, the MENA Dialogue Platform has been postponed until further notice. Further updates will follow shortly.

Demystifying anticipatory action for displacement

The landscape for anticipatory action and displacement is nascent and complex. This blog provides an overview of the situations where the two already intersect.

UN agencies act to anticipate a cholera outbreak in DRC

The UN's framework for cholera was recently activated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Actions are now under way to prevent the outbreak spreading further.

New database on anticipatory action in Southern Africa

The Regional Anticipatory Action Working Group has established this platform together with the Anticipation Hub to serve as a technical resource for practitioners and stakeholders engaged in anticipatory action across the Southern African Development Community region.

Anticipation Hub publishes its third global overview report

The Anticipation Hub has published its third annual overview of anticipatory action worldwide. Drawing on data provided by its partners and other organizations that are implementing this approach, 'Anticipatory Action in 2024: A Global Overview' provides evidence that anticipatory action continues to grow in scale.  

Blog June 19, 2025

Advocacy, Networks & Conferences

Readouts from policy fora in the first half of 2025

This article reflects on the outcomes from three high-level events held during the first half of 2025: Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week, the European Humanitarian Forum and the Global …

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Blog June 18, 2025

Compound risk, Conflict

Demystifying anticipatory action for displacement: a menu of operational options

There are over 123 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, yet they are rarely targeted through anticipatory action. Efforts are under way to change this, and this blog provides an overview of …

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Blog May 31, 2025

Advocacy, Scaling up

Spread the word: working with the media to tell people about anticipatory action

There are many ways to work with the media - in its many forms - to increase awareness of anticipatory action. This blog looks at some effective approaches used to date.

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Blog April 30, 2025

Conflict, Early Warning System, Forecast

Early warning systems in fragile, conflict-affected and violent contexts: takeaways for anticipatory action

Anticipatory action cannot take place effectively without investment in the wider elements of early warning systems. Securing such investment is particularly challenging in fragile, …

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Blog March 18, 2025

Early Action, Food Insecurity, Gender & Inclusion

Ensuring education through a crisis: how school-feeding programmes give children ‘more than just a meal’

Slow-onset hazards can drive hunger among children, forcing them to stay at home rather than attend school. In such contexts, school-feeding programmes have emerged as a crucial anticipatory action. …

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Blog February 10, 2025

Compound risk, Dialogue Platform

When hazards ‘work together’ in complex ways, how can anticipatory action stakeholders keep pace?

Anticipatory action initiatives have often focused on a single hazard. But the contexts in which humanitarians operate are all too often shaped by a complex interplay of cascading and compounding …

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Blog January 23, 2025

Dialogue Platform, GIS & Mapping, Science

Demystifying artificial intelligence for anticipatory action

What is the potential for using AI in anticipatory action? How can we harness AI in a way that is ethical and aligned with humanitarian values? A recent workshop sought to answer some of these …

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Blog December 02, 2024

GIS & Mapping

Using geoinformation for anticipatory action frameworks: a technical training workshop in Pakistan

Geoinformation plays a critical role in anticipatory action, providing a clear, data-driven picture of where the risks are highest and which areas are most vulnerable to hazards. A recent workshop …

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News June 11, 2025

Early Action, Health, WASH

The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society launches the first simplified EAP to combat dengue

The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society has launched the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement’s first simplified early action protocol targeting dengue, marking a milestone for anticipatory action for public …

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News June 06, 2025

Early Action, Shelter, WASH

Anticipatory action in the Pacific: Fiji’s Simplified EAP for Tropical Cyclones

The Fiji Red Cross Society recently published its Simplified EAP for Tropical Cyclones - the first from a Small Island Developing State to be approved.

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News June 06, 2025

Early Action, WASH

UN agencies act to anticipate a cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The UN Anticipatory Action Framework: Cholera has been activated for the second time this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with actions under way to prevent the cholera outbreak from …

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News June 05, 2025

Conflict, Early Warning System

Lessons from a regional workshop on fragile, conflict-affected and violent settings in Asia-Pacific

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News June 03, 2025

Cash & Voucher, Evidence, Lessons Learnt, M&E

WFP’s updated evidence base on anticipatory action 2025: lessons from 16 studies across 12 countries

WFP recently published an updated evidence base on anticipatory action. This synthesis of 16 studies provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of anticipatory action, as well as lessons …

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News June 02, 2025

Advocacy, Evidence

The Anticipation Hub publishes its latest report on anticipatory action worldwide

The Anticipation Hub has published its third annual overview of the scale of anticipatory action worldwide. Drawing on data provided by its partners and other organizations that are implementing …

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News March 31, 2025

Early Action, Gender & Inclusion, Health, WASH

How anticipatory action adds value to epidemic preparedness: managing cholera outbreaks in Cameroon

The Cameroon Red Cross Society’s EAP for Cholera marks a historic milestone: it is the first EAP for an epidemic to be validated by the IFRC, and will guide anticipatory actions ahead of a forecast …

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News March 21, 2025

Early Action, Health, WASH

OCHA and CERF act in anticipation of a large cholera outbreak in DRC

The United Nations CERF has allocated 750,000 US dollars for anticipatory actions to contain a cholera outbreak in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. This funding will be used to …

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Online Conference

13th Global Dialogue Platform on anticipatory humanitarian action (10th Anniversary Edition)

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Video and webinar series: “The basics of forecasting for anticipatory action" - Part five: Non-weather hazards & potentials

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Community conversation #28: Anticipatory action in 2024 - what does the data tell us?

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Video and webinar series: “The basics of forecasting for anticipatory action" - Part four: Cold wave and heat wave

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Video and webinar series: “The basics of forecasting for anticipatory action" - Part three: Cyclone / typhoon / hurricane / tropical storm

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Video and webinar series: “The basics of forecasting for anticipatory action" - Part two: Flood

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Video and webinar series: “The basics of forecasting for anticipatory action" - Part one: Introduction to forecasting

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Community conversation #27: The HydroMet and the Anticipatory Action system: tales about strengthening a critical relationship

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Video: The Anticipation Hub at a glance

Through the online platform you can access a library of learning resources, global map of anticipatory action initiatives, an early action database, working groups and much more to support your work on anticipatory action as a practitioner, scientist or policymaker. 

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Therefore, scaling up is not just “more”, it also means “better”.
To respond collectively in a coordinated manner, we must work together.

Jagan Chapagain Secretary General, IFRC

What is global is local somewhere and what is local is global somewhere else. For this reason, it is very important for us to actually come together and co-design, co-produce and co-implement, so we can learn from each other and also cross-fertilize ideas and solutions.

Dr. Halima Saado Abdillahi Head of Research and Learning, International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA) and Kenya Red Cross

Better anticipation allows us to stay ahead of the curve in an increasingly volatile climate, connecting scientific information to practical action on the ground.

Professor Maarten van Aalst Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Anticipatory action has tremendous potential to increase the efficiency of life-saving interventions and protect the most vulnerable. This is especially true for women and girls who often face some of the most severe risks. Through well-targeted anticipatory approaches, we can better empower women and girls to face crises on their own terms.

Lisa Carty Director, Humanitarian Financing & Resource Mobilization Division, OCHA

Anticipatory actions are the bright spots in a bleak humanitarian outlook. If we manage to move more in that direction, we will get a response that is faster, cheaper, and more dignified. One that protects hard-won development gains.

Mark Lowcock Emergency Relief Coordinator

The Anticipation Hub in numbers

The Anticipation Hub aims to share knowledge and experiences to jointly enhance and scale up anticipatory action globally.

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Emerging topics

In expanding the use of anticipatory action to address more risks, be applicable in more contexts and strengthen overall disaster risk financing approaches, experts and practitioners are engaging in multi-disciplinary collaboration to enable anticipatory action to be applied where and when it is needed using adapted tools, innovative solutions and new ways of working.

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