Community anticipatory actions to improve community-level disaster resilience in Nigeria: a Cost-effectiveness Analysis (CEA)

From 2023 – 2024, researchers evaluated an IRC-implemented community-led anticipatory action intervention to understand its impacts on improving community-level resilience to flooding shocks. 

The analysis suggests community-level anticipatory actions are a cost-effective approach to address community-level disaster resilience relative to anticipatory cash to households. If community-level outcomes are the primary aim of a program, funders could consider supporting community-led anticipatory actions. However, we do not have evidence that suggests community level interventions are more effective at inducing changes at the household level when compared with anticipatory cash.