
09/09/2021
Anticipatory action is the practice of forecasting disasters and acting before they occur or reach their peak. The goal, in a nutshell, is to use data on weather, conflicts and many other stress factors to provide aid proactively and help [...]

30/08/2021
This is a ‘think piece’ on systemic risk governance for the 21st century. It aims to foster the understanding of systemic risk and the actionable ways of promoting risk governance at local and national levels, while promoting cross-practice collaboration within [...]

Striking before the floods to protect agricultural livelihoods
12/04/2021
This study documents the outcome of acting early to protect farming families in northwestern Bangladesh from impending floods. It outlines FAO’s contribution to a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BRCS), [...]

01/04/2021
This synthesis report summarises learnings from studies in Cameroon, Somalia and Bangladesh about operationalising the HDP nexus for longer term resilience in crisis settings.
The promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to ‘leave no one behind’, yet people caught [...]

20/10/2020
The Energy and Environment Technical Working Group (EETWG), together with the Government of Bangladesh, UN agencies, national and international NGOs, is coordinating extensive planting activities and the provision of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders in the Rohingya refugee camps and [...]