Forecast-based early Action: A missing link between humanitarian response and development?

While improvements in forecasting open the door to greater investment in early action, such actions need to be carefully pre-planned, vulnerable groups identified, and financing prepositioned so that funds can be quickly released and used to reduce disaster impacts.

‘Forecast-based early action’ is seen as an innovative approach to managing the residual risks that cannot be addressed through longer-term investment in resilience – those that have not been reduced when a disaster is imminent. But proponents must tread carefully, ensuring the right incentives for early action are created without crowding out seasonal preparedness activities or longer-term resilience.

How can we re-think risk governance arrangements and improve the efficiency of efforts to deal with climate, in a fiscally constrained environment?

Speakers :

• Emily Wilkinson, Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
• Irene Amuron, Technical Advisor - Forecast based Financing at Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Moderator :

• Christophe Buffet, AFD – Adapt’Action programme manager

This webinar is organized by the Adapt’Action Facility, a tool used by AFD and Expertise France to help 15 countries and regional organizations particularly vulnerable to climate-change implement adaptation strategies. Adapt’Action provides technical assistance and capacity-building support to strengthen climate governance, a better integration of adaptation in their public policies, and the emergence of climate-resilient projects.

More details: https://www.afd.fr/en/adaptaction