This session exploded with ideas and initiatives to ensure scale-up and a shift from reaction to system-wide anticipation at all levels. Opportunities for collaboration on advocacy included: the Anticipation Hub where material will soon be available to support advocacy work (reports, case studies, facts & figures, speaking points) including for specific regions and target groups (donors, hydromet services, DRM); the upcoming collaborative session on targeted policy and advocacy messages for the Africa region in the Africa Dialogue Platform for Anticipatory Action (June 29-July 1, 2021); UNFPA creates an Anticipation advocacy brief targeting sectors like food security and disaster management, to ensure they develop early actions considerate of GBV; Welthungerhilfe: advocacy goal is to develop jointly anticipatory actions for droughts in collaboration with multi-sectoral stakeholder projects.
The different regional actors agreed on the need for creating a strong evidence base and figuring out a common way to share the lessons learned through programming. There was consensus on organising sensitization workshops for targeted communities and training of government departments and disaster management committees on anticipatory action and its benefits, in order to foster more regional buy-in.
Hilla Wessel