Summary
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- Manual
- How Forecast-based Financing (FbF) is strengthening anticipatory humanitarian action in the RCRC movement
- One RCRC anticipatory action approach: FbF
- How this Manual works
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- 01. Scope possibilities for a FbF system
- Step 1: Start exploring FbF
- Step 2: Identify a focal point for FbF
- Step 3: Initial 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: Discuss the next steps
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- 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 and track your engagement
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 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: Familiarize 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
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- 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: Finalize the organizational 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 organize 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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- 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
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- 13. Activate, revise, and resubmit your EAP
- Step 1: Activate your EAP
- Step 2: Post activation reporting
- Step 3: Revise and resubmit
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Library
Terms and definitions
Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) guidance and tools
- Full EAP template and criteria
- Simplified EAP template and criteria
- FedNet
- Interactive guidance
- FbF - Information for National Red Cross Red Crescent Societies
- Practical Information for NS on FbF and funding from the DREF
- Guidance for IFRC staff in a nutshell
- IFRC Anticipatory action brochure
- Overview EAPs for IFRC leadership
e-learnings
- IFRC AA training
- RCCC Climate training Kit
- OCHA AA Toolkit
- START Network Crisis Anticipation and Action
- START Network Risk analysis in DRF
- FAO Developing an AA System
- FAO Building a crisis timeline
- FAO Early Warning indicators
- FAO Examples of Anticipatory Actions
Strategy documents
- Council of delegates resolution on anticipatory action (RCRC, 2022)
- IFRC Operational Framework for Anticipatory Action 2021-2025 (IFRC)
- G7 Statement on AA (German Federal Foreign Office, 2022)
- ASEAN Framework on AA in DM (ASEAN, 2022)
- IGAD Regional Roadmap for Anticipatory Action (2024)