Southern Africa After Action Review Workshop on Anticipatory Action

The Regional Anticipatory Action Working Group (RAAWG), co-led by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, World Food Programme (WFP),  is convening the Southern Africa After-Action Review (AAR) Workshop on Anticipatory Action to consolidate lessons from recent activations and strengthen a multi-hazard, impact-based approach across the region. The event will take place 25–27 November 2025 in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

The workshop will bring together government institutions, regional bodies, UN agencies, Red Cross/Red Crescent, NGOs, technical partners and donors to improve integration to improve integration  around triggers determination, impact based forecasting and and financing in  multi-risks context, promote locally led approaches, and align with the updated RAAWG Roadmap (2025–2027) for institutionalizing anticipatory action at regional and national levels. Sessions will include the updating of the SARCOF-31 seasonal and tropical cyclone forecasts and contingency planning and a shared preparedness dashboard to foster cross-country learning and harmonization.

Objectives

• Facilitate knowledge exchange on strengths, gaps and opportunities from the National Aa Working groups and recent AA activations to inform future action.
• Foster partnerships and coordination across sectors (e.g. food security, health, WASH, social protection) through joint forecasting, integrated anticipatory action and contingency planning.
• Harmonize weather triggers methodologies
• Advance multi-hazard, impact-based forecasting  approaches linked to regional weather forecast products (SARCOF-31 and cyclone outlooks).
• Improving risk-based financing by exploring adaptive, layered and context-impact sensitive financing instruments for timely activation
• Promote localization and inclusion, elevating the role of local actors and adapting anticipatory action plan  to the diverse vulnerabilities and capacities at local level

Expected outcomes

• Actionable recommendations to strengthen integration among humanitarian partners and Government on impact based forecasting for integrated programming across the different sectors,  weather triggers determination and financing for activation of anticipatory action in complex and compounding crises.
• Enhanced regional alignment for an harmonized AA system that is linked to existing national processes and (consistent with the RAAWG Roadmap.
• Inputs to regional and national preparedness, including updates to contingency plans and a shared state-of-preparedness dashboard.

Strengthened localized capacities and partnerships to design and activate impact-based, community-led anticipatory actions.

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