Preparedness

The Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action in Latin America and the Caribbean has published a new briefing on El Niño and anticipatory action in the region.

This study uses the ASPIRE tool to evaluate the readiness and effectiveness of social protection systems in Brazil, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve anticipatory measures and climate resilience.

This article uses the 1883 eruption of Krakatau as a historical case study to examine how social vulnerability, colonial governance, and failures in risk communication affected the scale of disaster impacts.

In this study, the authors investigated three major typhoons in Macau—Typhoons Hato (2017), Mangkhut (2018), and Ragasa (2025)—to examine changes in residents' evacuation behavior and government responses.

PILIER launched a $13 million flood preparedness and response plan in early 2024 to protect N’Djamena during a high-risk rainy season.

The report documents the continued expansion of anticipatory action globally in 2025, with record activations, growing institutional embedding, and a first-ever analysis of donor funding flows, while flagging persistent gaps in financing and coordination.

The Anticipation Hub’s fourth annual overview of anticipatory action shows that this approach continued to expand in 2025, reaching 9.6 million people ahead of forecast hazards during the year.

As the news spread about the outbreak of Ebola in mid-May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report about pandemics. The title was: A World on the Edge: Priorities for a Pandemic-Resilient Future.