The Role of Anticipatory Action in Protracted Food Crises

Anticipatory Action (AA) is a tool to mitigate risks, by acting ahead of a predicted hazard to prevent or reduce the impacts on communities before they fully unfold.
This study sought to understand how and when can development, climate change and humanitarian actors best support households to protect the livelihoods and wellbeing in the face of repeated or ongoing food crises forecasted to worsen? It explored the role that AA could play in such contexts by capturing the voices of people and families who lived through the 2021-2023 drought in parts of Kenya and Somaliland.
The study concludes that there is a role for AA in protracted droughts and makes recommendations on how it should be considered in such contexts.