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Reduce and mitigate predictable humanitarian impacts from negatively affecting at–risk populations through coordinated and timely anticipated action
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Priority
Our teams are reducing and mitigating impacts from negatively affecting at-risk populations through coordinated and timely anticipated action.
We are working with communities, partners, and frontline responders to understand and reduce the risks where possible and increasing response preparedness when a disaster occurs. This includes community-based disaster risk management, an approach that is integrated into our longer-term development and resilience programmes.
In locations where we have good early warning systems in place, it is increasingly possible to provide assistance ahead of the onset of a disaster through anticipatory action protocol.