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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

    105

  • Activations

    106

  • Investments

    $70M+

  • People Targeted

    5M+

Hazards covered by anticipation

  • Cold wave / heavy snowfall
  • Cyclone / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
  • Disease outbreak / epidemic
  • Drought / dry spell
  • Dzud
  • Flash flood
  • Flood
  • Heat wave
  • Landslide / mudslide
  • Multi-hazard
  • Riverine flood
  • Storm-induced flood

Latest news

  • Flood
  • Multi-risk
  • Activation

Turning forecasts into actions: protecting communities from landslides, floods and flash floods in Bangladesh

03 August 2026
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  • Landslide / mudslide
  • Activation

Partners act to protect communities from landslides in Bangladesh

20 July 2026
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    • Advocacy
    • Scaling up

    Nepal endorses its National Anticipatory Action Framework

    05 June 2026
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    • Disease outbreak / epidemic
    • Activation
    • Health

    The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society acts to contain a dengue outbreak

    05 June 2026
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    Frameworks and activations

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    CountryHazardCoordinating OrganizationStatusPeople TargetedBudget

    Bangladesh

    Start Network (Bangladesh)
    		 Active 37,500 $ 860,000

    Bangladesh

    Government
    		 Active 8,000 $ 0

    Bangladesh

    ACF
    		 Under development 0 $ 0

    Bangladesh

    Plan International
    		 Under development 0 $ 0

    Bangladesh

    WHH
    		 Under development 0 $ 0

    Bangladesh

    FAO
    		 Under development 0 $ 0
    CountryHazardCoordinating OrganizationPeople TargetedFundingYear

    Afghanistan

    CRS
    		 2,500 $ 200,000 2025

    Afghanistan

    OCHA
    		 440,084 $ 17,999,811 2023

    Afghanistan

    OCHA
    		 769,000 $ 14,085,907 2025

    Afghanistan

    WVI
    		 349,055 $ 150,000 2025

    Afghanistan

    WFP
    		 28,861 $ 1,000,000 2025

    Afghanistan

    IRC
    		 23,772 $ 1,730,144 2025

    Icon Explanations:

    • Cold wave / heavy snowfall
    • Cyclone / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
    • Disease outbreak / epidemic
    • Drought / dry spell
    • Dzud
    • El Niño / La Niña
    • Flash flood
    • Flood
    • Food insecurity
    • Heat wave
    • Landslide / mudslide
    • Livestock pests and diseases
    • Multi-hazard
    • Other
    • Population movement
    • Riverine flood
    • Storm-induced flood
    • Unspecified
    • Wildfire

    Frameworks and activations

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    Latest resources

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    • Disease outbreak / epidemic
    • Activation
    • Evidence

    Anticipatory Action for Dengue Prevention in Sri Lanka: Schools and Communities as Platforms for Early Action

    01 September 2026
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    • Landslide / mudslide
    • Activation
    • Protection, gender and inclusion

    Protecting Communities: Acting Early to Reduce Landslide Risk in Chattogram Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

    29 June 2026
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    • Disease outbreak / epidemic
    • Activation
    • Evidence

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

    17 February 2026
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      • Advocacy
      • Early warnings

      Integrating Anticipatory Action in Indonesia

      26 June 2025
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      • Flood
      • Cash and 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 / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
      • Activation

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

      05 December 2020
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      • Cyclone / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
      • Activation
      • Early warnings

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

      12 October 2020
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      • Flood
      • Cash and Voucher
      • Early warnings

      Anticipatory Action in the 2025 Pakistan Floods: Multi-Agency Activations, Early Warning, Cash Assistance, and Lessons for Flood Risk …

      20 August 2026
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      • Flood
      • Cash and Voucher
      • Evidence

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

      14 December 2024
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      • Drought / dry spell
      • Trigger Development

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

      16 April 2024
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      • Flood
      • Cash and Voucher
      • Activation

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

      30 November 2023
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      Regional working groups

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      • Asia

      Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Early Warnings and Anticipatory Action

      Learn more about the regional technical working group here.

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      • Asia
      • Bangladesh
      • Dialogue platforms
      • Networks & Conferences

      Getting the harmony right at the Asia-Pacific Dialogue Platform

      With a growing number of anticipatory action frameworks and systems across the Asia-Pacific region, the need for better harmonization has never been higher. Establishing how to achieve this …

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      • Asia
      • Conflict
      • Early warnings

      Lessons from a regional workshop on fragile, conflict-affected and violent settings in Asia-Pacific

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      • Asia

      Launching the training package on anticipatory action for the Asia-Pacific region

      The AP-TWGAA is launching its minimum training package on Anticipatory Action. This training package on AA contains eight main modules plus one optional module on AA for those who wish to adapt …

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