Anticipatory Action in 2025 – Forecast to Frontline: Acting Early to Ensure Children Survive, Learn and are Protected

In 2025, Save the Children continued to advance child-centred and locally led anticipatory action, engaging children and communities in risk analysis, planning, early warning and early action. It also developed and tested resources for collective and community-centred anticipatory action planning through Education Cluster and Child Protection coordination mechanisms.

The experiences highlighted in this report demonstrate that anticipatory action is not only possible — it is increasingly essential. They also show that children and communities are not passive recipients of aid, but critical partners in anticipating risk, taking early action and building resilience before disasters strike.

This report was originally published on Save the Children's website.