United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

💸 When funding is released early, the benefits multiply. As El Niño threatened lives and livelihoods in 2023–2024, pre-arranged finance enabled action before disaster struck. Early finance provided those affected with: 🔹 Drought-tolerant seeds 🔹 Water harvesting systems 🔹 Cash support to families Across 23 countries, anticipatory action supported 1.6 million people to protect crops, assets and food security. This is what anticipatory action looks like: 🔁 Finance triggered by forecasts. 🎯 Delivery aligned with risk. 📊 Results measured in lives and livelihoods protected. The systems exist. The evidence is growing. Now it’s about scale. Learn more about how anticipatory action saves lives, protects livelihoods, preserves dignity ➡️ https://ow.ly/u8al50YmmnQ #HNPW #AnticipatoryAction

Forty years after the 1984 industrial gas leak, Bhopal is still framed as a disaster story. It deserves to be understood as a resilience story. In Bhopal, women-led organisations like the Chingari Trust and Sambhavna Clinic continue monitoring environmental health, supporting affected families, and holding industrial systems to account. 🏛️ The town demonstrates the Sendai goal of inclusive, locally driven disaster risk reduction in practice – with community-based early warning, participatory governance, and women at the centre of preparedness. Resilience is the heartbeat of a community that chooses to rebuild on its own terms. 💗 Find out more in this #DRRvoices blog article by Shiree Khan, on #PreventionWeb ➡️ https://ow.ly/n58Q50YmV4c

Anticipatory action is changing the disaster response and humanitarian action landscape. 🌾This is how the World Food Programme releases resources ahead of drought in southern Africa – protecting lives, livelihoods, and dignity before the shock hits. More about anticipatory action 👉 https://ow.ly/lryo50Yn0rQ #AnticipatoryAction | #EarlyWarningsForAll | #HNPW

📢 Trusted communication in disasters can save lives. Developing trusted and effective public risk communication is a complex process – yet the disaster risk communication loop acts as a guiding model. ♾️ The proposed loop is a dynamic process, not a linear one. This means that the development of disaster risk communication may cycle between its four phases – understanding, improving, planning and doing – as the approach is continuously adjusted and refined. This is because communication can always be improved. 💪 The model is underlain by key principles of: 🤝 Collaboration across sectors, breaking down silos 🧩 Creativity in problem solving 📚 Learning for continuous development Communication is a dynamic process, and is most effective when it can adapt and respond to changing situations. Explore UNDRR’s Disaster Risk Communication Hub for other vital aspects of public risk communication 👉 https://ow.ly/jKBV50Yn0SP

🌇 This is how we move from urban heat islands to cool urban solutions.😎 🌡️ Cities are heating up – and the design choices embedded in them are making it worse. Dense structures, heat-absorbing surfaces, limited vegetation and restricted airflow combine to turn urban neighbourhoods into high-temperature environments that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. 🌿But the same systems that generate urban heat offer opportunities for change. Smart design, urban greening, reflective surfaces and community-centred planning are already proving that cooler, healthier cities are achievable. Find out more ➡️ https://ow.ly/YtPt50YmVw9 #BeatTheHeat

In 1883, Krakatoa triggered a 37-metre tsunami that killed over 36,000 people. In 2018, its “child” Anak Krakatoa collapsed during a minor eruption, unleashing another deadly wave, this time with no warning. Why? Indonesia’s tsunami early warning system is designed for earthquakes, not volcanic eruptions. Volcanic tsunamis are less common – and poorly understood. 🛰️ Researchers have called for: ✅ Early warning systems using tide gauges, satellite data, and real-time modelling ✅ Clear evacuation routes and disaster preparedness at the village level ✅ Trauma support and better coastal planning Field studies in Lampung found vulnerable coastal zones, a lack of defences, and anxious communities. But with the right tools and local engagement, that can change. 📣 We can’t predict the next eruption – but we can prepare. 🌊 We need to educate people about tsunami risks they face so they can prepare a #Plan2Survive Are YOU ready? ➡️ https://ow.ly/h1U550YlbFH #TsunamiDay #GetToHighGround

🔴 90% of climate-related deaths occur in poorer countries. Disasters trap the poorest in a cycle of vulnerability, so that extreme weather and other disasters reduce their resilience further. We all have a responsibility to reduce disaster risks by breaking the poverty – disaster cycle. https://ow.ly/VaAX50X4u3P #BreakTheCycle

💡Anticipatory action is the smart way to provide humanitarian assistance for forecastable events, ahead of the shock. 🚀 When a pre-agreed forecast threshold is crossed, a set of pre-agreed and pre-financed humanitarian interventions is triggered. Acting before the event protects lives, livelihoods, and dignity. 🤝 Anticipatory action is interwoven with other humanitarian approaches and with climate and development efforts. It builds on early warnings, early action, climate adaptation, and disaster preparedness. Learn more from Anticipation Hub ➡️ https://ow.ly/IfVO50WHnUb #HNPW #AnticipatoryAction

📌 Register now! 🗓️ 10 March 2026 | 9:00 CET 🤝 Hybrid event – in-person or online attendance Anticipatory action is a proven approach to save lives and reduce humanitarian costs – but funding and coordination remain a bottleneck. Join the Anticipatory Action Task Force, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC, United Nations OCHA, World Food Programme, FAO, Start Network, Welthungerhilfe (WHH), Anticipation Hub and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) for an interactive session at HNPW 2026 to explore how to unlock diverse financing for anticipatory action. #HNPW #AnticipatoryAction

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