New briefing on locally led anticipatory action

A new briefing published by the Anticipation Hub outlines some of the benefits of locally led anticipatory action and explains the importance of this approach.

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.

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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News December 09, 2021

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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. Read more …

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News November 29, 2021

Strengthening partnerships between science and practice for anticipatory action

Good news for anticipatory action: the Water@Reading research group has received an Earth Observations for the Sustainable Development Goals 2021 award. Read more.

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News November 25, 2021

Scaling up

How local governments allocated funding for anticipatory action in the Philippines

A new case study explores how strong collaborations between Philippines Red Cross and government stakeholders paved the way for Local Government Units in the Philippines to allocate government …

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News November 25, 2021

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Funding disaster response what needs to change

Kara Siahaan, head of the Anticipation Hub, was a panellist at the COP26 session ‘COP out or radically change the way the world pays for disasters’, organised by Devex in partnership with DAI and …

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News November 19, 2021

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The 5th Asia-Pacific Dialogue Platform: Anticipatory Action, Climate Resilience and a Call for Action

The 5th Asia Pacific Dialogue Platform was held from October 19 to October 21, 2021. For the fifth time, experts, practitioners, stakeholders, and many more met to discuss the opportunities and …

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News November 18, 2021

Nouvelles notes d orientation sur le financement base sur les previsions l action anticipee et les grandes secheresses

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News November 18, 2021

Embarking on the FbF journey in MENA – FbF kick-off workshop in Morocco

As the first National Society in MENA to start a Forecast-based Financing (FbF) project, the Moroccan Red Crescent (MRC) together with the German Red Cross (GRC) kick-started the project with a …

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News November 02, 2021

Looking ahead to COP26

As delegates and activists gather in Glasgow for the COP26 summit, Dr Nikolas Scherer from the Anticipation Hub spoke to German radio broadcaster SWR1 about his expectations for the event, 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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