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Locally led

The benefits and importance of locally led anticipatory action

This briefing, written by the Locally Led Anticipatory Action Working Group, provides examples of the benefits of locally led anticipatory action and explains its importance. It draws on evidence …

World Vision feasibility study of anticipatory action in Bangladesh

This feasibility study was conducted in Bangladesh as part of the Asia Anticipatory Action Project. This initiative, led by World Vision and supported by Aktion Deutschland Hilft, Germany, aims to …

Disaster Risk Financing, Evidence, Risk, Scaling up, Trigger Development

Anticipatory Action in Asia and the Pacific: Regional Roadmap 2023–2027

This document presents the five-year vision and roadmap for anticipatory action prepared by the Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action (TWGAA), covering the period 2023–2027. …

Cash & Voucher, Early Action, Evidence

Effects of anticipatory humanitarian cash assistance to households forecasted to experience extreme flooding: evidence from Bangladesh

The 2020 monsoon floods in Bangladesh were among the most severe and protracted in decades. Instead of waiting for disaster to strike, the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society used impact-based forecast …

Dialogue Platform

Concept note for the 2nd National Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action: Bangladesh 2023

Bangladesh's 2nd National Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action took place in September 2023 as an in-person conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and involving participants from across …

Cash & Voucher, Early Action, Early Warning System

EAP for Heatwave: Bangladesh - Summary

This document summarizes Bangladesh's Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Heatwaves. It outlines the preagreed financing for early actions ahead of this hazard, the triggers that need to be reached for …

Cash & Voucher, Scaling up

How Can Anticipatory Action Reach Scale and Sustainability? Learning from CERF in Bangladesh

This report captures and builds on learning from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) anticipatory action pilot in Bangladesh. This is one of a series of …

Cash & Voucher, Impact-based Forecasting, Lessons Learnt, Scaling up, Trigger Development

The co-benefits of forecast-based financing and anticipatory action

When forecast-based financing was first piloted in 2014, it was seen as a risky, experimental approach. Since then, it has gathered incredible momentum and is now being successfully implemented in …

Compound risk, Early Action, Health

Anticipatory action in the age of Covid-19: lessons from Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh

Compound risk, Early Action, Health

Anticipatory action in the age of Covid-19: lessons from Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh

In March 2020, humanitarian actors in Bangladesh faced a dilemma: how should they protect people during the approaching cyclone season, while in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? This briefing …