Anticipatory actions focusing on drought have become more important in Africa over recent years. Therefore, collaboration on this topic between stakeholders such as government, RCRC National Societies, local MET offices, UN organizations, and universities, has also risen.

Experiences on collaboration were shared from Kenya and from the RC Southern African project in Namibia, Lesotho and Mozambique. In Kenya, collaboration is ongoing between government, universities, local Met offices, and the Red Cross National Society, and they have successfully integrated Anticipatory Action into the national drought management systems. This collaboration is also strengthening the ownership of the actors who are involved, which necessarily includes the communities receiving information and targeted by measures.

In the Southern Africa region, collaboration between universities and practitioners on drought can bridge the information gap between researchers and communities for technical and strategic advice on drought anticipatory action.