Early Warning, Early Finance and Early Action Project

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The project proposes a proactive approach to provide regular and predictable cash support to food insecure households during normal years (non-drought years) and scale up the support during drought years to extend the support to households most vulnerable to drought shocks to enhance their resilience. To achieve such a proactive approach, the project will develop (i) drought early warning related decision support and systems building for hydromet and agromet services, disaster preparedness and community resilience, (ii) procedures for early financing to support pre-agreed early actions and rapid responses, and (iii) a safety net delivery system that can provide support to extremely poor and food insecure households during normal years and that can be scaled-up during a drought to extend support to others vulnerable households who will be affected by the shocks that will be caused by the drought.