Anticipatory action events at HNPW 2025

Anticipatory action will be one of the nine areas of common concern at the Humanitarian Networks & Partnerships Week 2025. On this page you can find a list of HNPW sessions that cover or relate to anticipatory action.

The event overview will be continuously updated as we receive new information.

Registration for the sessions is already possible at the HNPW 2025 website, links to the sessions can be found in their descriptions.

19 March 2025

Empowering Future: Integrating Child-Centred and Locally Led Anticipatory Action

Date

19 March 2025

Time

11:00-12:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

IFRC, Plan International, Save the Children, World Vision and UNICEF

Session format

Remote

Session link

20 March 2025

Linking Multi-Hazard Context Monitoring to Anticipatory Action: Reducing Humanitarian Need and Protecting Development Gains

Date

20 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:00 (UTC+1)

Hosts

World Vision International And Insecurity Insights

Session format

Remote

Session link

24 March 2025

The Fundamentals of Anticipatory Action: An Introduction

Date

24 March 2025

Time

11:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Anticipation Hub

Location

Salle Montreux

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Anticipatory Action and People-Centered Disaster Risk Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

Date

24 March 2025

Time

11:00-12:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

iMMAP Inc.

Location

Espace telecom

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Anticipatory Action: Rethinking Triggers for Humanitarian Impact

Date

24 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

IFRC DREF

Location

Espace telecom

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

25 March 2025

Leveraging Digital Innovation for Disaster Preparedness, Anticipatory Action, and Emergency Response

Date

25 March 2025

Time

09:00-10:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

OCHA-UNDP Connecting Business Initiative, OCHA Private Sector Unit, Monday.com

Location

Salle 4

Session format

Face-to-face

Session link

Leveraging historical disaster data to enhance anticipatory action and crisis responses

Date

25 March 2025

Time

09:00-10:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

IFRC, OCHA, PDC, JRC, WFP, Google

Location

Salle 14

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Catalyzing global commitments for Anticipatory Action Scale-Up

Date

25 March 2025

Time

10:00-11:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

WFP, Anticipation Hub, AATF, FAO, OCHA

Location

Salle Vevey

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Empowering Communities: People-Centered, Locally-Led Approaches in Anticipatory Action

Date

25 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Welthungerhilfe, Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision

Location

Salle Vevey

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

(Real) anticipatory action: for and by the local communities and actors

Date

25 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

CartONG & Ground Truth Solutions

Location

Salle 14

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

From conflict to resilience: Anticipatory action to prevent and mitigate conflict-induced hunger

Date

25 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Action Against Hunger; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Location

Salle Montreux

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Scaling Up Anticipatory Action: A Path to Reducing Humanitarian Impacts of Displacement

Date

25 March 2025

Time

16:00-17:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Anticipation Hub, DRC, IOM, FAO, IFRC, IDMC

Location

Salle 9

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

26 March 2025

Anticipation Hub: Strategic Opportunities to Scale Up Anticipatory Action Beyond 2025

Date

26 March 2025

Time

09:00-10:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Anticipation Hub

Location

Salle 1

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Anticipatory action and preparedness for education in emergencies: progress and latest evidence

Date

26 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies

Location

Espace telecom

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Experience how to adapt disaster risk financing instruments to fuel anticipatory action

Date

26 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Anticipation Hub, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, FAO, Start Network

Location

Salle 11

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Anticipatory Action in Action: Evidence from El Niño Activations

Date

26 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

FAO, WFP

Location

Pleniere F

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Integrating Protection, Gender, and Inclusion in Anticipatory Action: A Practical Toolkit for Humanitarian Practitioners

Date

26 March 2025

Time

16:00-17:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Plan International, IFRC, UNICEF, Humanity & Inclusion

Location

Espace telecom

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Anticipating complex crises: Action at the intersection of climate, disasters, and conflict

Date

26 March 2025

Time

16:00-17:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, FAO, CGIAR/IWMI, IMPACT, CRAF'd, Deltares, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, CREWS, The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre (HSC) of the ISS, Anticipation Hub

Location

Salle 1

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Anticipating complex crises: Action at the intersection of climate, disasters, and conflict

Date

26 March 2025

Time

16:00-17:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Prepared International

Location

Salle 12

Session format

Face-to-face

Session link

27 March 2025

Optimizing emergency preparedness: Connecting risk analysis, anticipatory action and early warning frameworks for resilient responses

Date

27 March 2025

Time

09:00-10:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

UNDRR, OCHA, WFP, FAO, UNDP, UNEP

Location

Salle 14

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Institutionalizing anticipatory action into government systems – Opportunities & challenges

Date

27 March 2025

Time

09:00-10:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Anticipation Hub, IFRC, FAO

Location

Salle Montreux

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

Conflict Early Warning and Anticipatory Action – Debating along the Divide of Risk of Doing Harm and the Risk of Inaction

Date

27 March 2025

Time

09:00-10:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Location

Salle 2

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

 

Anticipating Chaos: "Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition" Monty Python

Date

27 March 2025

Time

11:00-12:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Dennis King

Location

Espace telecom

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

 

Enhancing Disaster Risk Financing: Maximising the impact of anticipatory action through coordination and collaboration

Date

27 March 2025

Time

14:00-15:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Start Network

Location

Salle 15

Session format

Hybrid

Session link

 

Let’s get practical - New resources for disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action in fragile, conflict-affected and violent settings

Date

27 March 2025

Time

16:00-17:30 (UTC+1)

Hosts

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre; German Red Cross; IFRC

Location

Salle 10

Session format

Face-to-face

Session link