Preparedness

With forecasts indicating a high risk of El Niño-related impacts across southern Africa, World Vision Malawi implements anticipatory actions to maintain people’s food security, protect their livelihoods, and support water, sanitation and hygiene measures.

This study examines household earthquake risk awareness and preparedness in Ghana’s Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, revealing high awareness but low preparedness. Education and prior tremor experience significantly predict readiness.

AI forecasting is quick and cheap, but errors can’t be tracked and explained, and more data and testing are needed

A decade after the idea took shape, Forest Resilience Bonds are helping partners finance and fund projects across the western U.S., reducing wildfire risk while enhancing the water supply and supporting local jobs.

This paper mobilises the theoretical frameworks of policy transfer and organisational learning to analyse French and international post-exercise and post-seismic after-action reviews.

This study examines fire governance from fire-prone countries and transdisciplinary practitioner knowledge to propose ten principles for aligning fire policy with social-ecological realities.

This paper examines the associations between predictive preparedness, adaptive governance, institutional fragmentation, and recurrent shock reduction in Somalia through a quantitative, cross-sectional study.

Amid recurring landslides, a growing number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being forced to adapt to increasingly limited camp space. Refugee management authorities warn that expansions of Rohingya camps will accelerate destruction of forests.

Technical handbook for North Macedonia on risk and hazard assessment and protection and rescue planning, identifying gaps in coordination, methodology and data management; recommending EU-aligned, risk-informed approaches to preparedness and resilience.

WHO’s 2026 situation analysis warns the strong El Niño will bring extreme climate conditions, escalating health threats particularly for the vulnerable, urging early action to anticipate, mitigate, and respond.

This paper critically examines the potential for leveraging the U.S. emergency management (EM) enterprise to enhance national resilience to future acute climate risks.

Peru built world-renowned defenses against glacial floods, before decentralisation and financial austerity caused them to crumble. After an era of impressive progress on preventative measures, hundreds of Peru’s glacial lakes are now at risk of bursting

National Emergency Telecommunication Plans help governments, operators and responders maintain communications before, during and after disasters, strengthening preparedness, early warning, response and recovery while building resilience.

For scientists, central question is not whether earthquakes will return to Kashmir. Geological history makes that virtually inevitable. Question is whether the region’s infrastructure, institutions, and communities will be better prepared when they do.

This report assesses climate hazards in Uganda’s Kikuube District, finding increasing drought stress, localized flood risk and rising temperatures. It recommends early warning systems, climate-smart agriculture, water management and resilience planning.

This study examines how prior hazard experiences shape community preparedness for future climate-related risks by linking census block group-level wind and rainfall exposures from eleven storms affecting Louisiana during 2017–2021.

Governments across Europe are increasingly telling citizens to prepare at home for a major crisis like war, extreme weather and cybersecurity threats, with Ireland becoming the latest country to push emergency preparedness guidance.

With the impacts of El Niño drawing ever closer across southern Africa, the Baphalali Eswatini Red Cross Society activated its early action protocol for drought after forecasts predicted below-normal rainfall from October to December.

Officially reported data by national governments through the Sendai Framework Monitor show significant progress in reducing disaster mortality, strengthening disaster risk reduction strategies and expanding multi-hazard early warning systems.

An EU project is building a multi-risk early warning system that forecasts who and what a hazard will affect, not just where it will strike.

After seeing blocked roads and power outages leave people without food and water, Carla Ramsdell decided to create a YouTube series to help others get ready.

This factsheet, produced by IFRC in July 2026, summarizes expected El Niño impacts across Asia Pacific through 2027 and the preparedness and response activity already underway across the region.

With southern Africa bracing for a severe El Niño-driven drought, partners in Mozambique’s Mutarara District are acting now to support communities at risk from its expected impacts.

Malaysia's Securities Commission plans to ask companies to disclose how they are preparing for El Nino amid concerns the country's businesses may be ill prepared for the fallout from the ​weather phenomenon, chairman Mohammad Faiz Azmi told Reuters.

This brief highlights Save the Children Nigeria’s Community-Led Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Anticipatory Action approach, which helps communities prepare for and respond to predictable hazards before they escalate into crises.

The Emergency Management Act 2026 establishes New Zealand’s framework for hazard management, preparedness, emergency response, recovery, governance, planning, essential infrastructure, compliance, and compensation arrangements.

This study evaluates opportunities to enhance the Mali Red Cross Early Action Protocol (EAP) for riverine flooding by comparing global flood forecasting systems against the country's current trigger model.

The interplay of water, infrastructure, and danger drives home the central lesson of disaster risk reduction: there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. A natural hazard becomes a disaster only when people are placed in its path.

A new regional platform launched in Honduras is gathering lessons on disaster preparedness, evacuation and risk management in vulnerable communities across the Northern Triangle, helping strengthen evidence-based, people-centred resilience efforts.

Recurrent floods have forced Juneau to confront a problem that communities around the world are increasingly facing: How do you prepare for a natural disaster when you know it will come back?

The LRP 2026 aims to respond holistically to the multiple crises facing Lebanon including residual humanitarian needs in conflict affected areas and presents an appeal of $1.62 billion to support coordinated interventions across nine sectors.

Following a series of major disasters and inquiries that questioned New Zealand’s capacity to deal with them, the new Emergency Management Act 2026 is the most significant improvement in more than two decades.

This report presents findings from a survey of 3,700 U.S. adults on disaster preparedness. Most respondents are concerned about natural disasters, but few feel very prepared, with cost identified as the leading barrier to preparedness.

United We Prepare®, a disaster preparedness initiative by United Way Worldwide, supported by Verizon, is helping to make preparedness easier, less costly, and more accessible. It provides tools and information, to prepare for disasters.

This survey is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them

The issue with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy to end the wildfire crisis. But effective wildfire strategy in worsening fire seasons demands a system of actions – interconnected pieces that reinforce one another.

With El Niño threatening to disrupt upcoming rainfall and agricultural seasons, the LRCS activated its EAP for drought and begin implementing anticipatory actions to support the most vulnerable households. Heightened food insecurity is the main concern.

Taking the small positives after a disaster in the Pacific, how one Samoan resident says the 2009 tsunami helped change people’s mind sets.

EU wildfire prepositioning places firefighters in high-risk countries during fire season, enabling joint training, operational readiness, cross-border cooperation. In 2026, ~800 firefighters from 14 countries deployed to support wildfire preparedness.

WFP is scaling up anticipatory action across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help vulnerable communities prepare for El Niño-linked droughts, floods and hunger through cash assistance, early warnings, farming support and resilience measures.

This report compiles global best practices on industrial hazard mitigation and management, drawing lessons from major incidents, safety frameworks and international experience to strengthen risk-informed governance, preparedness, resilience and safety.