Unpicks the challenges and opportunities for young professionals to support in translating early warning into early action as identified in a recent webinar by the Water Youth Network, the Anticipation Hub and the Associated Programme on Flood Management.

This brief outlines advances made in decision-making for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.

The Bulletin focusses on “Early warning and anticipatory action” with articles on harnessing technology and services, risk to resilience, Global Multi-hazard Alert System, WMO-UNDRR Centre of Excellence and on gender equality in the context of DRR.

An in-depth analysis of the policy enabling environment for early action in Fiji.  

This summary report, along with its associated in-depth case studies across ten countries, explores what constitutes an enabling environment for anticipatory action at the national level.

The Risk-informed Early Action Partnership's State of Play report provides a snapshot of early warning early action commitment, investment and activity over the previous year.

This report provides a snapshot of early warning early action commitment, investment and activity over the previous year.

This is an in depth analysis of the policy enabling environment for early action in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is exposed to numerous hazards including droughts, floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes desert locust, and intercommunal and now large-scale conflict.

Anticipatory action is only possible when an appropriate system is in place: for using data and forecasting information, analysing risks and predicting the impacts. Household Economy Analysis is a powerful tool that can help with all of these.

How do we ensure that anticipatory action does not exacerbate the intersecting vulnerabilities of those people it aims to help? Three elements – protection, gender and inclusion – are crucial to this.