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• Manual / Guideline

A practical Guide to Seasonal Forecasts

This is a series of short, practical guidance documents with advice on how to interpret and use seasonal forecasts. Seasonal forecasts are a popular forecast product with the added attractiveness of …

• Manual / Guideline

Collaborating with national climate and weather agencies: a guide to getting started

Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies can benefit from establishing direct collaboration with the national agencies responsible for providing meteorological and hydrological services – here …

• Feasibility Study

Nepal FbF Feasibility Study

This report outlines the findings of the feasibility study, which aimed to identify high potential applications of the FbF concept to reduce the impacts of hydro-meteorological disaster events. The …

• Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

Pro-poor Principles of the InsuResilience Global Partnership

Pro-poor principles developed building on a an inclusive and consensus-based approach, encompassing a call for submissions, different webinars and a workshop

• Research Report

Social cost benefit analysis of early action fund

As part of Save the Chilren UK efforts to form part of the growing evidence around early action, the report evaluates the cost effectiveness of acting ealry, and specifically the cost of acting …

• Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

Research Roadmap Forecast-based Financing

• Academic papers

The evolving landscape of climate services in sub-Saharan Africa: What roles have NGOs played

This article draws on research conducted in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia to examine the evolution in the development and use of climate services at national level in sub-Saharan Africa and the role …

• Research Report

Double Vulnerability: the humanitarian implications of intersecting climate and conflict risks.

This paper exposes the ways in which climate change projections are used and misused by international development actors, highlighting wrong interpretations and communication of climate projections, …

• Research Report

Reducing flood impacts through forecast-based action

Interest in forecast-based early action for floods in Kenya is growing as a result of the detrimental floods in 2018. There are promising entry points for linking flood forecasts with social …

• Report

Anticipatory humanitarian action: what role for the CERF? Moving from rapid response to early action

Funding early action is consistent with the mandate of the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). These early actions would be similar to the kinds of response actions the CERF already supports. …