Cash Voucher Assistance (CVA) has proven to be a cost-efficient means of building the resilience of vulnerable communities and strengthening the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in pre-disaster scenarios.

Advancements in technology and analytics are making it easier to predict extreme weather events. This makes it possible to trigger anticipatory action – acting before a predicted disaster, such as a flood or a drought, to reduce its impact on people.

This outcome document reflects the conclusions reached at the 2022 Anticipating Food Crises workshop and is intended to support the work of policymakers and practitioners in Anticipatory Action, ensuring that theory is put into practice.

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.

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.

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

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.

The next generation of challenges for meaningful and effective anticipatory humanitarian action is immense, but so are the potential rewards.