Southern Africa After-Action Review Workshop on Anticipatory Action
Date
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - Thursday, November 27, 2025Location
Antananarivo, Madagascar
In-person and online
Category
Workshop
Description
The Southern Africa After-Action Review Workshop on Anticipatory Action will take place from 25 to 27 November 2025, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and online, to consolidate lessons from recent activations and strengthen a multi-hazard, impact-based approach across the region.
The workshop will bring together government institutions, regional bodies, UN agencies, Red Cross/Red Crescent, NGOs, technical partners and donors to improve integration around trigger determination, impact-based forecasting and financing in multi-risk contexts. It will also promote locally led approaches and align with the updated RAAWG Roadmap (2025–2027) for institutionalizing anticipatory action at regional and national levels. Sessions will include the updating of the SARCOF-31 seasonal and tropical cyclone forecasts and contingency planning, and a shared preparedness dashboard to foster cross-country learning and harmonization.
Concept note
Concept note in English.
Online participation
You can join the event online by clicking on the link below on 25 November, starting from 08:00 AM EAT.
Objectives
- Facilitate knowledge exchange on strengths, gaps and opportunities from the National Aa Working groups and recent AA activations to inform future action.
- Foster partnerships and coordination across sectors (e.g. food security, health, WASH, social protection) through joint forecasting, integrated anticipatory action and contingency planning.
- Harmonize weather triggers methodologies
- Advance multi-hazard, impact-based forecasting approaches linked to regional weather forecast products (SARCOF-31 and cyclone outlooks).
- Improving risk-based financing by exploring adaptive, layered and context-impact sensitive financing instruments for timely activation
- Promote localization and inclusion, elevating the role of local actors and adapting anticipatory action plan to the diverse vulnerabilities and capacities at local level
Expected outcomes
- Actionable recommendations to strengthen integration among humanitarian partners and Government on impact based forecasting for integrated programming across the different sectors, weather triggers determination and financing for activation of anticipatory action in complex and compounding crises.
- Enhanced regional alignment for an harmonized AA system that is linked to existing national processes and (consistent with the RAAWG Roadmap.
- Inputs to regional and national preparedness, including updates to contingency plans and a shared state-of-preparedness dashboard.
- Strengthened localized capacities and partnerships to design and activate impact-based, community-led anticipatory actions.
For more information on the event please contact:
Lucas Serage
Anticipatory Action Support Specialist FAO SFSFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Anticipatory Action OfficerInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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