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Anticipatory Action In Asia Pacific

The Asia Pacific region is one of the most diverse in the world. It’s home to nearly 4.5 billion people – some 60 percent of the global population and where 70 percent of the world’s disasters hit including devastating impacts of cyclones, floods, droughts, and heatwaves. Anticipatory Action has been widely accepted and adopted by humanitarian partners and governments as a way to better protect lives and livelihoods and maintain people’s self-reliance. 

In this corner of the Anticipation Hub, we provide a space to advance partnership opportunities, exchange knowledge and together advocate for Anticipatory Action to change the way we manage crises in the Asia Pacific region and support scaling up. 

In the Asia Pacific region, various stakeholders have been steering forward this agenda. They include the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Office for Coordination and Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), START Network, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), along with governments, national meteorological and hydrological services, research institutions and universities. 

Countries

Overview

  • Active frameworks

    77

  • Activations

    64

  • Investments

    $131M+

  • People Targeted

    8M+

Hazards covered by anticipation

  • Cold Wave
  • Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane
  • Disease outbreak
  • Drought
  • Dzud
  • El Niño/La Niña
  • Flood
  • Heat Wave
  • Landslide
  • Multiple

Latest News

  • Heat Wave
  • Cash & Voucher
  • Social Protection

Social protection as an engine for anticipatory action

26 January 2026
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  • Armed Conflict
  • Compound risk
  • Conflict

A new briefing highlights how anticipatory action can deliver results in fragile and conflict-affected contexts

18 December 2025
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  • Drought
  • Dialogue Platform
  • Networks & Conferences

A decade of anticipatory action in focus at the 13th Global Dialogue Platform

05 December 2025
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  • Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane
  • Early Action

The Philippine Red Cross acts to protect people ahead of Tropical Storm Fung-wong

08 November 2025
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Frameworks and Activations

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CountryHazardCoordinating OrganizationStatusPeople TargetedBudget

Afghanistan

FAO
 Under development 0 $ 0

Bangladesh

IFRC
 Active 230,000 $ 1,324,046

Bangladesh

IFRC
 Active 150,000 $ 1,153,168

Bangladesh

OCHA
 Active 1,296,956 $ 23,240,000

Bangladesh

WFP
 Active 386,750 $ 4,300,000

Bangladesh

Start Network
 Active 91,070 $ 2,812,663
CountryHazardCoordinating OrganizationPeople TargetedFundingYear

Afghanistan

OCHA
 440,084 $ 17,999,811 2023

Bangladesh

IFRC
 50,000 $ 294,474 2024

Bangladesh

OCHA
 388,000 $ 6,200,000 2024

Bangladesh

WFP
 1,540,000 $ 1,200,057 2023

Bangladesh

WFP
 1,540,000 $ 1,200,057 2024

Bangladesh

Start Network
 5,981 $ 41,447 2022

Icon Explanations:

  • Cold Wave
  • Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane
  • Disease outbreak
  • Drought
  • Dzud
  • El Niño/La Niña
  • Epidemic / Pandemic
  • Flood
  • Food insecurity
  • Heat Wave
  • Landslide
  • Multiple
  • Wildfire

Frameworks and Activations

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Latest Resources

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  • Disease outbreak
  • Early Action
  • Evidence

Establishing anticipatory action at the national level: a case study from Sri Lanka

17 February 2026
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    • Advocacy
    • Early Warning System

    Integrating Anticipatory Action in Indonesia

    26 June 2025
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    • Flood
    • Lessons Learnt

    Towards Anticipatory Action for Disaster Preparedness

    21 April 2025
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    • Flood
    • Cash & Voucher
    • Early Action

    Monsoon Pilot 2024: Digital & Blockchain Technologies in Anticipatory Action

    04 March 2025
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    • Flood
    • Cash & Voucher
    • Evidence

    Does forecast-based financing (FbF) lower women's vulnerability to flooding?

    14 December 2024
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    • Drought
    • Trigger Development

    On the quantitative limits for triggering drought anticipatory actions in Mindanao, the Philippines

    16 April 2024
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    • Flood
    • Cash & Voucher
    • Early Action

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

    30 November 2023
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      • Evidence
      • Lessons Learnt

      Anticipatory action to manage climate risks: lessons from the Red Cross Red Crescent in Southern Africa, Bangladesh, and beyond

      10 January 2023
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      • Flood
      • Cash & Voucher
      • Social Protection

      A feasibility study on the potential use of cash-based social protection systems for floods in Bangladesh

      28 September 2022
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      • Heat Wave

      Feasibility study on heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh

      08 September 2021
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      • Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane
      • Early Action

      Forecast-Based Early Action (FbA) in Indonesia: A Scoping Study

      05 December 2020
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      • Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane
      • Early Action
      • Early Warning System

      Feasibility assessment on Forecast-based Action in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

      12 October 2020
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      Regional Working Groups

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      • Asia

      Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action

      Learn more about the regional technical working group here.

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