Amjad Ahmad of Welthungerhilfe Pakistan provides details on his project, a consortium of 22 organisations working on Disaster Risk Financing and using 3 prediction models: on flood, drought and heat waves. The project is prepositioning the funds, activating early actions based on pre-defined triggers and then implementing them through grass-root organisations. Amjad Ahmad: "I want to highlight here that we really need to collaborate". He highlights that there is a lot done from different actors on research but research initiatives are not always answering the questions on the ground. "And what we lack in Pakistan is a central Disaster Risk Financing Policy."

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Dr. Jigjidpurev Sukhbaatar, Resilience Programme Technical Advisor, FAO Mongolia on the recent Dzud activation. The impact-based forecasting model confirmed the trigger, allowing FAO and MRCS to act early to reduce the impacts of dzud on vulnerable herders, ahead of the peak in April. The systems now in place enable FAO to monitor the risks and to act earlier. The Dzud Risk Map - produced by the national Meteorological Institute - includes 11 indicators, overlayed with forecasts, and is key for FAO and MRCS to act early and to support livelihoods of vulnerable households.

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