Bangladesh acts ahead of a heat wave

The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society activated its Early Action Protocol for Heatwave in Dhaka on 21 April 2024.

Webinar series on extreme heat in the Sahel region

The Anticipation Hub, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and ANACIM in Senegal are hosting a series of webinars on anticipating heat waves in the Sahel.

Linking Nepal’s social protection programmes with anticipatory action

Nepal has a diverse portfolio of social protection programmes and humanitarian organizations are finding creative ways to use these for anticipatory action and disaster-response activities.

Mapping for anticipatory action in Timor-Leste

Together with the Humanitarian OSM Team and OSM community, the Climate Centre and the Timor-Leste Red Cross Society have been mapping with local communities to provide insights into areas at risk from floods, landslides and other climate-related hazards.

New report on anticipatory action to be launched at HNPW

The Anticipation Hub will launch its new report, Anticipatory Action in 2023: A Global Overview, at Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week in Geneva, Switzerland.

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New IFRC communications resources help to explain anticipatory action

The IFRC has developed a suite of communications resources to help explain and clarify how anticipatory action works in practice. Launched on World Meteorological Day 2022, these resources are now …

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A new case study on anticipatory action ahead of the October 2021 floods in the Karnali River, Nepal

A new case study documents the timeline of anticipatory action ahead of riverine floods in Nepal in October 2021. It outlines the forecasting, communication and coordination processes implemented, …

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A new OCHA-facilitated project to protect the most vulnerable people in Niger from drought

A new pilot project, facilitated by OCHA, will use forecasts of severe drought in Niger to trigger anticipatory action to help those most at risk.

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Acciones tempranas ante Sequías en Centro América se analizaron en taller regional de la Cruz Roja

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Discussing early actions for drought in Central America

The Central American workshop on drought preparedness, held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from 7-11 March 2022, helped to identify early actions, forecasts and activation mechanisms for drought in the …

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Reactivation of the EAP for Floods in northern Mozambique: Tropical Storm Gombe causes the Licungo River to flood for a second time

Tropical Storm Gombe made landfall in Mozambique on 11 March, bringing heavy rains and causing water levels in the Licungo River to rise. On 14 March, they exceeded the trigger level set out in the …

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OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data webinar on flood modelling for anticipatory action

A webinar hosted by the Centre for Humanitarian Data brought together experts and practitioners from Google, the University of Reading and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre to shed light on …

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Forecasting for early action in eastern Africa: the first Anticipation Hub community conversation

In the first in a new series of online ‘Community conversations’, Ahmed Amdihun from ICPAC talked to Jemimah Wakini Maina from the Kenya Red Cross about ICPAC’s work in anticipatory action and how …

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Therefore, scaling up is not just “more”, it also means “better”.
To respond collectively in a coordinated manner, we must work together.

Jagan Chapagain Secretary General, IFRC

What is global is local somewhere and what is local is global somewhere else. For this reason, it is very important for us to actually come together and co-design, co-produce and co-implement, so we can learn from each other and also cross-fertilize ideas and solutions.

Dr. Halima Saado Abdillahi Head of Research and Learning, International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA) and Kenya Red Cross

Better anticipation allows us to stay ahead of the curve in an increasingly volatile climate, connecting scientific information to practical action on the ground.

Professor Maarten van Aalst Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Anticipatory action has tremendous potential to increase the efficiency of life-saving interventions and protect the most vulnerable. This is especially true for women and girls who often face some of the most severe risks. Through well-targeted anticipatory approaches, we can better empower women and girls to face crises on their own terms.

Lisa Carty Director, Humanitarian Financing & Resource Mobilization Division, OCHA

Anticipatory actions are the bright spots in a bleak humanitarian outlook. If we manage to move more in that direction, we will get a response that is faster, cheaper, and more dignified. One that protects hard-won development gains.

Mark Lowcock Emergency Relief Coordinator

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In expanding the use of anticipatory action to address more risks, be applicable in more contexts and strengthen overall disaster risk financing approaches, experts and practitioners are engaging in multi-disciplinary collaboration to enable anticipatory action to be applied where and when it is needed using adapted tools, innovative solutions and new ways of working.

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