Rooted in local leadership, powered by global solidarity: strengthening anticipatory action across the IFRC Network

This report distils insights from a desk review, interviews, a focus-group discussion and a field visit into four overarching messages. Together, they explain why progress on locally led anticipatory action has been uneven, and also highlight the trade-offs the IFRC Network must navigate and the opportunities to re-examine how anticipatory action is organized and governed. The report also provides recommendations for the IFRC, the Donor Advisory Group and National Societies.

The key messages of this report, are:

1. Scaling locally led anticipatory action creates structural trade-offs
2. The barriers to locally led anticipatory action are political as well as technical
3. Locally led anticipatory action needs a more enabling and inclusive operating model
4. Locally led anticipatory action still faces a set of systemic challenges