Abstract:
This issue brief addresses opportunities and challenges associated with utilizing forecast-based financing (FbF) to support anticipatory humanitarian action in the context of disaster displacement. It includes recommendations to governments, UN agencies, NGOs, the IFRC and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, civil society and donors, as well as community-based stakeholders, on how FbF can reduce risks and address the humanitarian impacts of disaster displacement.
Citation:
Thalheimer, L., Jjemba, E.W., Simperingham, E. (2020). 'Forecast-Based Financing and Disaster Displacement: Acting Early to Reduce Humanitarian Impacts of Displacement'. IFRC and Red Cross Crescent Climate Centre ISSUE BRIEF.