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Cash & Voucher, Early Action, Lessons Learnt, Shelter

Anticipatory action in practice: acting early ahead of typhoons in the Philippines

Tropical cyclones are the most common hazard in the Philippines, with nine to ten making landfall each year on average. Around half of these are categorized as typhoons, which bring severe winds …

Emerging Topics, Forecast, Scaling up

Expanding anticipatory action to new hazards: mudflows in Central Asia

Currently, most anticipatory action plans address hydrometeorological hazards for which forecasting methodologies are well established. There are, however, efforts under way to implement …

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 …

Cash & Voucher, Early Action

Anticipatory action and cash transfers for rapid-onset hazards: Practitioners’ note for field testing

This paper, by the Asia-Pacific Regional Cash Working Group and the Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action, aims to understand cash's relationship with anticipatory action and …

Lessons Learnt, Science, Trigger Development

Developing triggers for forecast-based financing: how partnerships can strengthen anticipatory action

The forecast-based financing approach is built on partnerships between different actors. One central element that requires such collaboration is developing triggers: the thresholds for a hazard that …

Cash & Voucher, Early Action, Lessons Learnt

Quick and reliable funding: how FbA by the DREF supported a shift from reaction to anticipation in 2020

The year 2020 was the first to see activations of the Forecast-based Action by the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (FbA by the DREF) funding mechanism. This briefing examines each of the four …

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Save the Children Framework for Anticipatory Action

The purpose of this framework is to create a common understanding of anticipatory action across Save the Children. It explains how anticipatory action fits within the scope of Save the Children’s …

Early Action

Study on the Use of Climate-related Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Support Anticipatory Action in Zimbabwe, October 2022

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is piloting the Anticipatory Action (AA) approach in Zimbabwe. AA is designed to manage climate risks by acting in anticipation of severe weather …