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  • Case Study

Establishing anticipatory action at the national level: a case study from Sri Lanka

Anticipatory action has progressed rapidly in Sri Lanka. In 2022, the first pilot project began testing this approach for floods and landslides in Nuwara Eliya; just three years later, there are now …

17 February 2026
  • Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

Establishing anticipatory action at the national level: lessons from Sri Lanka

Anticipatory action has progressed rapidly in Sri Lanka. In 2022, the first pilot project began testing this approach for floods and landslides in Nuwara Eliya; just three years later, there are now …

20 November 2025
  • Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

An approach that works: how anticipatory action delivers impacts

In 2015, projects in Togo and Uganda explored whether it was possible to provide humanitarian support in anticipation of predictable hazards. Ten years later, anticipatory action is an established …

18 November 2025
  • News

Sri Lanka’s government convenes the first meeting of the National Anticipatory Action Working Group

Anticipatory action initiatives are growing rapidly in Sri Lanka. The National Anticipatory Action Working Group, which was set up to ensure these initiatives are well coordinated and receive the …

07 March 2025
  • News

Bangladesh holds its second National Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action

Over 200 people joined Bangladesh’s 2nd National Dialogue Platform in September, which considered ways to scale up anticipatory action for sustainable development.

07 December 2023
  • News

The Amrita Center in India receives the 2023 Averted Disaster Award at the 11th Global Dialogue Platform

The Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications in India is the winner of this year’s Averted Disaster Award, receiving the award at the 11th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory …

13 October 2023
  • Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

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 …

07 February 2023
  • Webinar

Community conversation #9 - Anticipatory action ahead of mudflows: what do we know so far?

To date, most anticipatory action projects have addressed hydrometeorological hazards, but efforts are under way to implement this approach ahead of other types of hazards. In this community …

  • Report

Multi-Hazard Risk Analysis of Climate-Related Disasters in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to recurring hazards and this situation is going to exacerbate due to the impacts of climate change. There is, however, a dearth of data-driven decision-making in the …

07 November 2022
  • News

Call for papers: the whole anticipatory action community can learn from your experience

The Anticipation Hub is among the guest editors of a special issue of Hydrology Research and invites the anticipatory action community to share their knowledge.

21 June 2022