Anticipating food crises – Common principles to address challenges relating to anticipatory action

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 to support those who need it most.

Some of the recommendations in the report include:

• There is a need for a more flexible and frequent update of IPC analyses when the situation evolves from the projected outcomes/forecasts.
• The Anticipatory Action approach needs to be systematically incorporated into collective outcomes processes that convene humanitarian, development and peace actors from government, the multilateral system, bilateral actors, the private sector and civil society on the basis of a shared understanding of risks and vulnerabilities. 
• Anticipatory Action must be supported by a financing landscape analysis to highlight funding gaps and to identify the right financing instruments and sources of financing (public, private, international and domestic) for the timely implementation of anticipatory actions.