Anticipatory action: five key policy asks

By forecasting when hazards will strike, analyzing their risks, agreeing on actions and enabling financing ahead of time, humanitarian organizations and communities can act before disasters hit. This way, anticipatory action saves lives and livelihoods - and ultimately preserves people’s self-sufficiency. It’s a faster, more efficient and more dignified way to protect people against predictable crises.

The Anticipatory Action Task Force (AATF) brings together the key agencies implementing anticipatory action on the ground. The AATF draws on a wealth of experience from implementing anticipatory action projects in over 60 countries. The mission of the AATF is to promote the use of anticipatory humanitarian action to risks . The AATF comprises:
the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Start Network, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The key policy asks in this video are based on their extensive collective experience of what is needed to unleash the full potential of anticipatory action.

Read more about the AATF here:
www.anticipation-hub.org/exchange/networks-and-forums/anticipatory-action-task-force-aatf/


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