The Anticipation Hub celebrates its 1st birthday

The Anticipation Hub celebrated its 1st birthday party at the Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action -  on 8 December, exactly one year after its official launch. 

It was a year full of knowledge exchange, learning and advocacy across the anticipatory action community, with extensive activities that all help realise the Anticipation Hub’s three strategic priorities. 

Here are some of the biggest achievements by the Anticipation Hub and its partners in the past 12 months:

• Growing partnerships: we now have 83 partners across 36 countries, representing organisations from across practice, science and policy, as well as a partner-led advisory group. 
• Five global working groups: these working groups focus on knowledge exchange, stimulating innovation and collaboration. 
• New guidance tools for practitioners: these include the recently launched trigger database and evidence database, as well as the early action database and global map of anticipatory action initiatives.
• Anticipatory action community directory: The community directory is facilitating connections between practitioners, scientists and policymakers from global to local levels.

As well as these, we have uploaded 45 blog posts on a range of thematic topics, written by our partners; disseminated 5 newsletters compiling the latest knowledge resources, news and events across the community; and supported numerous high-level policy dialogues and initiatives on anticipatory action.

Our birthday party at the Global Dialogue Platform took place in an interactive environment on gather.town, where participants were asked to share their feedback and wishes for 2021 as a birthday present to the Anticipation Hub. Here are some of the messages we received from our partners, outlining their vision for the Anticipation Hub in 2022. 

As we reflect on the year gone past, we look forward to the year ahead with many advocacy, knowledge exchange opportunities on the horizon for the anticipatory action community to capture and embrace. 

The Anticipation Hub is committed to playing a central role in supporting all practitioners, scientists and policymakers, to do more anticipatory action, do it better and do it together, and to embed a culture of anticipatory action inside and beyond the humanitarian sector.