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Food Insecurity

Anticipating rising food insecurity: Hunger Hotspots report

The March edition flags 20 countries and situations where there is a likelihood of further deterioration in acute food insecurity, due to multiple drivers of hunger that are interlinked or mutually …

Early Action, Early Warning System

Linking early warning with early action: Closing the gaps for stronger resilience

This blog article looks at the different components of an early warning system to find links with early and anticipatory action approaches, and ways to build and develop holistic systems which leave …

The aftermath of anticipatory humanitarian actions taken for severe tropical storm ‘Chalane’ in Mozambique – was it worth it?

This blog is a short narrative about what followed as the first EAP activation in the Africa region.

Leveraging Knowledge to Accelerate Anticipatory Action: An interview with the AHA Centre

This blog post shares the key highlights from the interview and clearly demonstrates the vital role regional voices play in stimulating knowledge exchange and advocating to anchor anticipatory …

Fortalecimiento de la colaboración entre los Servicios Meteorológicos Nacionales y el sector humanitario para la implementación de acciones …

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de Argentina se convierte en miembro de Anticipation Hub y firma un convenio con la Cruz Roja Argentina

Strengthening partnerships between National Meteorological Services and humanitarian actors to enable anticipatory action in Argentina

The Argentinian National Meteorological Service becomes a partner of the Anticipation Hub and signs an MoU with the Argentina Red Cross

GIS & Mapping

Capturing opportunities for OpenStreetMap data to better support Anticipatory Action

There are a vast array of opportunities for open geospatial data, like OpenStreetMap (OSM) to support anticipatory action. This blog captures key insights and examples of how the German Red Cross, …

Forecast

Bridging the gap: establishing the basis of subseasonal flood forecasting in East Africa

In 2018 Kenya experienced one of its wettest seasons on record. Exceptionally high rainfall in distinct periods throughout the “long rains” season resulted in extensive flooding, loss of around 200 …

Reshaping and rethinking Anticipatory Action: learning from 2020

During the first months of 2020, all the attention was on – and rightly so – containing the spread and responding to the direct impacts of COVID19. Some of us working on designing new anticipatory …

Early Action

Getting ahead of the climate curve: Investing in Early Warning and Early Action

The need to get ahead of the climate curve by investing in early warning and early action was also the focus of an Anchoring Event on Disaster Risk Management, one of the action themes of the …