How local governments allocated funding for anticipatory action in the Philippines

The Philippines Red Cross (PRC), with support from the German Red Cross, the 510 initiative of the Netherlands Red Cross, the Finnish Red Cross, and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre began working on a Forecast-based Financing plan for typhoons and flooding in 2017. An Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Typhoons was approved in November 2019. This EAP supports early action in an average five high-risk municipalities within each of the 26 provinces most affected by typhoons. Read more.