What you will find inside the FbF Manual

• Manual Introduction
• • How Forecast-based Financing (FbF) is strengthening anticipatory humanitarian action in the RCRC movement
  • One RCRC anticipatory action approach: FbF
  • How this Manual works
• 01. Scope possibilities for a FbF system
• • Step 1: Start exploring FbF
  • Step 2: Identify a focal point for FbF
  • Step 3: Have first discussions on how to integrate FbF in existing plans and mechanisms
  • Step 4: Understand and define the value of a scoping study for your context
  • Step 5: Define the support that you need for the study
  • Step 6: Design the Study
  • Step 7: Select the person or team to conduct the study
  • Step 8: Conduct desk review
  • Step 9: Collect primary data in-country
  • Step 10: Write report
  • Step 11: Validate results with stakeholders (national societies and partners)
  • Step 12: Report the results
  • Step 13: Decide the next steps
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 02. Engage your stakeholders
• • Step 1: Understand why engaging stakeholders is important
  • Step 2: Understand whom to engage in your context
  • Step 3: Build your message(s)
  • Step 4: Engage
  • Step 5: Monitor & track your engagement
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 03. Set up an FbF Programme
• • Step 1: Double-check ownership at leadership level for FbF
  • Step 2: Develop a plan to set up a FbF system
  • Step 3: Put together and onboard a team for FbF development
  • Step 4: Agree on information management system
  • Step 5: Sensitize other key staff of the national society, government focal points and other stakeholders involved
  • Step 6: Assess existing capacities, strategies and plans
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 04. Get to know the EAP criteria and understand the EAP management process
• • Step 1: Reach out to IFRC delegation
  • Step 2: Familiarize yourself with EAP templates and criteria (simplified and full)
  • Step 3: Submit and validate the EAP
  • Step 4: Get IFRC approval and sign legal agreements
  • Step 5: Manage the EAP
  • Step 6: Activate the EAP
  • Step 7: Monitor, evaluate and learn from the activation
  • Step 8: Revalidate your EAP
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 05. Collect risk, early action and impact data
• • Step 1: Understand key terms and related questions
  • Step 2: Understand how you will use the data
  • Step 3: Gather your data
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 06. Develop a trigger system
• • Step 1: Select hazard
  • Step 2: Understand what needs to go in a trigger system
  • Step 3: Establish coordination mechanism
  • Step 4: Define hazard variables to monitor based on impacts and early actions
  • Step 5: Compile a menu of forecasts
  • Step 6: Set impact threshold
  • Step 7: Link impact and hazard magnitude
  • Step 8: Define and justify trigger threshold and forecast variable
  • Step 9: Define stop mechanism (if applicable) 
  • Step 10: Develop a trigger statement
  • Step 11: Develop a mechanism that defines the intervention area
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 07. Select Early Actions
• • Step 1: Define your team
  • Step 2: Develop a data collection plan to do the following
  • Step 3: Identify impacts
  • Step 4: Prioritize impacts
  • Step 5: Identify and brainstorm potential early actions
  • Step 6: Narrow and prioritize list of early action
  • Step 7: Develop theories of change
  • Step 8: Test or workshop theory of Change
  • Step 9: Finalize early actions
  • Step 10: Develop an activation plan for selected actions and test it
  • Step 11: Make rationale explicit in the EAP
  • Final lessons and recommendations
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 07.1. Cash-based Early Actions
• • Step 1: Cash Feasibility Assessment
  • Step 2: Cash Capacity Assessment
  • Step 3: Analyse Response Options
  • Step 4: Design and Set-Up of Cash EA
  • Step 5: Testing and Simulation
  • Step 6: Implementation
  • Step 7: M&E and Capacity Building
  • Quiz
• 07.2. Link Early Actions to Social Protection
• • Opportunities: Why linking FbF and SP?
  • What can the Integration of FbF and SP look like?
  • How to go about it?
  • Quiz
• 08. Develop EAP activation system
• • Step 1: Set-up a forecast monitoring and activation system
  • Step 2: Develop a communication protocol
  • Step 3: Develop early action implementation process
  • Step 4: Develop process for targeting people at risk
  • Step 5: Review security guidelines
  • Step 6: Document and institutionalize data storage and activation procedures
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 09. Design MEAL Plan
• • Step 1: Define how EAP activations will be monitored
  • Step 2: Define how to assess the impact of the EAP activation
  • Step 3: Define responsibilities and timeframes
  • Step 4: Summarize in the EAP MEAL plan
  • Step 5: Consolidate MEAL plans from different EAPs in an MEAL master plan
  • Step 6: Adapt/review the EAP monitoring form
  • Step 7: Follow MEAL plan during activation
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• 10. Design the s/EAP budget
• • Step 1: Familiarise yourself with the eligible types of activities in an s/EAP
  • Step 2: Download the latest version of the template
  • Step 3: Plan the budget and fill the budget template
  • Step 4: Double-check what goes where
  • Step 5: Double check that your budget meets all the guidelines
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 11. Prepare for activation: strengthen your capacities and procedures and test your EAP in a simulation
• • Step 1: Map capacities, resources and procedures needed for the implementation of the (s)EAP
  • Step 2: Review existing assessments on capacities and procedures to identify gaps
  • Step 3: Finalise the organisational structure for the EAP implementation
  • Step 4: Conduct trainings and develop guidance material
  • Step 5: Disseminate the EAP
  • Step 6: Test your plan through a simulation
  • Step 6.1: Understand why and when to use a simulation
  • Step 6.2: Decide what kind of simulation you would like to conduct and plan, design and organise the simulation
  • Step 6.3 Conduct the simulation
  • Step 6.4: Evaluate and share lessons learned
  • Step 7: Integrate lessons learned in guidance and trainings
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  • Quiz
• 12. Submit your EAP to IFRC for funding
• • Step 1: Submit your EAP
  • Step 2: Wait for feedback
  • Step 3: Respond to and integrate the feedback
  • Step 4: Submit the revised s/EAP
  • Step 5: Sign the project funding agreement
  • Step 6: Access readiness and prepositioning funds
  • Step 7: Annual reporting
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz
• 13. Activate, revise, and resubmit your EAP
• • Step 1: Activate your EAP
  • Step 2: Post activation reporting
  • Step 3: Revise and resubmit
  • Toolbox
  • Quiz