Planning and monitoring country capacity strengthening for anticipatory action
The objective of country capacity strengthening for anticipatory action is to enable country-level stakeholders to act decisively, sustainably and at scale in anticipation of extreme climate events. This means that they can draw on the necessary systems, processes, resources and information to deliver anticipatory action every time the prevailing hazard conditions and outlook command an activation.
The guidance document comes with the ‘AA-CCS’ tool, a simple template that guides the user through the process of assessing existing capacities in each outcome area, prioritizing gaps, planning capacity-development interventions, and monitoring progress (an example of this is below). Ideally, this is done jointly with the government or with local partners who own and lead the process, but it can also be executed in house as a ‘strategic diagnostic’. Users are encouraged to adapt the approach and tool to their needs, based on their programme context and priorities.