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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

    65

  • Investments

    $131M+

  • People Targeted

    8M+

Hazards covered by anticipation

  • Cold wave / heavy snowfall
  • Cyclone / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
  • Disease outbreak / epidemic
  • Drought / dry spell
  • Dzud
  • El Niño / La Niña
  • Flood
  • Heat wave
  • Landslide / mudslide
  • Multi-hazard

Latest news

  • Flood
  • Compound risk
  • Early Action

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

03 August 2026
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  • Landslide / mudslide
  • Early Action

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
    • Early Action
    • 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

    Nepal

    Danish Red Cross
    		 Under development 0 $ 0

    Pakistan

    Start Network
    		 Active 507,920 $ 1,472,088

    Pakistan

    Start Network
    		 Active 635,923 $ 2,634,407

    Pakistan

    FAO
    		 Active 176,828 $ 790,000

    Pakistan

    Start Network
    		 Active 284,147 $ 2,366,637

    Pakistan

    IFRC
    		 Active 104,288 $ 449,484
    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 / heavy snowfall
    • Cyclone / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
    • Disease outbreak / epidemic
    • Drought / dry spell
    • Dzud
    • El Niño / La Niña
    • Flood
    • Food insecurity
    • Heat wave
    • Landslide / mudslide
    • Multi-hazard
    • Wildfire

    Frameworks and activations

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    Latest resources

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    • Landslide / mudslide
    • Early Action
    • Gender & Inclusion

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

    29 June 2026
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    • Disease outbreak / epidemic
    • 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
      • 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
      • Early Action

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

      05 December 2020
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      • Cyclone / hurricane / tropical storm / typhoon
      • 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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      • Flood
      • Cash & Voucher
      • Early Warning System

      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 & 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 & 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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      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 Platform
      • 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 Warning System

      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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