Anticipatory Action Year in Focus 2025 | World Food Programme

Country: World Source: World Food Programme Please refer to the attached file. Executive Summary 2025 marked the year in which Anticipatory Action (AA) became firmly established as one of WFP’s core approaches to delivering its life‑saving mandate. AA is now embedded within the organization’s Strategic Objectives, shaping how preparedness, early warning and emergency response are designed and delivered. This consolidation has been underpinned by a significant expansion of pre‑arranged financing, enabling AA to be triggered efficiently and systematically ahead of predictable shocks. WFP’s global AA portfolio accounted for USD 124 million, including USD 89 million prearranged financing for forecast-based activations. This scale up was possible thanks to the support from partners such as Austria, Australia, Denmark, the European Union, Germany, Google.org, Korea, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. WFP scaled up its AA operations from covering 6.1 million people in 44 countries in 2024 to more than 6.3 million people across the 47 countries covered in this year’s annual report. Additional countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean and the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Nigeria and Venezuela are now able to reach more people with AA to reduce the effects of increasingly recurrent extreme weather events. Anticipatory Activations to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events were triggered in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cuba, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines. Over USD 35 million was rapidly disbursed for the activations, resulting in 1,228,001 people rece...

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