In October 2022, FAO’s early warning system showed a high risk of flooding in Cameroon's Far North, activating anticipatory action including distribution of food, tools, and other essential items like sandbags to make protective dykes.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
This study set out to identify how best to support pastoralists and farmers before a food security crisis became fully developed in three different parts of Somalia
Locally-led planning by governments and humanitarian organisations, access to finance and risk data, and local actors’ operational readiness are all essential preconditions to ensure the effective implementation of anticipatory action at the local level.
Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction
This paper aims to identify key elements and stages of an effective epidemic and pandemic early warning (EW) and response system. It analyses inter-connections of the elements of the early warning system, focusing on the COVID-19 and multi-hazard context
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
This brief provides findings from a study about involved UN actors’ perceptions of this early action intervention. It contributes evidence on implementing early action in complex environments, including for displaced people, and in the face of crises.
This briefing examines the role that anticipatory action can play in addressing and mitigating heat waves, drawing on the process followed to implement a forecast-based financing project in Hanoi, Viet Nam.
Drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Kenya, Mongolia and Viet Nam, this briefing explores the mechanisms that set up these science–humanitarian partnerships for success, and some of the shared benefits they deliver.
This briefing examines each of the four activations of Forecast-based Action by the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (FbA by the DREF) funding mechanism that took place in 2020.
This briefing provides an overview of the co-benefits of forecast-based financing (FbF) and anticipatory action, such as emerging successes and positive impacts associated with forecast-based financing interventions.
