Assistant FAO Representative for Timor-Leste, Paula Lopes da Cruz, together with representative of Civil Protection Department, Red Cross Representative, and all participants on the Anticipatory Action Workshop

FAO, IFRC, and the Red Cross Climate Center held a two-day workshop in Timor-Leste to establish and scale up anticipatory action, reported by RTM News (16:20) and Timor Post (9:15). “The workshop focused on building anticipatory action systems through a multi-hazard and multi-sectoral lens to meet the current challenges in the wake of climate change. The approach fits naturally in the country as it experiences an increasing frequency of climate-related hazards such as heavy rainfall leading to floods in 2021, drought, heat extremes, and wildfires’’, said Paula Lopes da Cruz, FAO Assistant Representative in Timor-Leste.