The Anticipation Hub's third annual overview of anticipatory action worldwide

Anticipatory Action in 2024: A Global Overview

Anticipatory Action in 2024: A Global Overview is the third in a series of annual reports documenting the worldwide status and scale of anticipatory action. Written by the Anticipation Hub in partnership with FAO, OCHA, Start Network, WFP and WHH, the report summarizes the data submitted by partners and other organizations implementing anticipatory action. It also highlights some of the main thematic areas seen in 2024 and sets out recommendations for the future of this approach.

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This report was published thanks to the German Federal Foreign Office, which supports the Anticipation Hub.

If you are involved in anticipatory action and have frameworks and/or activations to include in future editions, please get in touch.

Anticipatory action in 2024: figures and data

You can download the data used for this report here:

• Table A1. Activations in 2024
• Table A2. Active frameworks in 2024
• Table A3. Frameworks under development in 2024

All the maps and figures from the report are available to download and reuse:

• Figure 1. Activations in 2024
• Figure 2. Activations in 2024: in numbers
• Figure 3. Activations in 2024: hazards
• Figure 4. Activations in 2024: organizations
• Figure 5. Activations in 2024: people reached and pre-agreed financing
• Figure 6. Active frameworks in 2024
• Figure 7. Active frameworks in 2024: in numbers
• Figure 8. Active frameworks in 2024: hazards
• Figure 9. Active frameworks in 2024: organizations
• Figure 10. Active frameworks in 2024: people covered and pre-agreed financing
• Figure 11. Anticipatory action in 2024: types of actions
• Figure 12. Anticipatory action in fragile, conflict- and violence-affected settings
• Figure 13. Predetermined areas for implementing anticipatory action
• Figure 14. Frameworks under development: in numbers
• Figure 15. Frameworks under development in 2024
• Figure 16. Institutionalization of anticipatory action in 2024
• Figure 17. Status of the institutionalization of anticipatory action in 2024
• Key for the maps (vertical) (horizontal)

Please cite the Anticipation Hub as the source when reusing these data and figures.

A short PowerPoint presentation about the report, shown at the community conversation about the report, is available to download here.

Main photo © Tendai Marima/WHH