Headline : Acting early to prevent food crises in Sudan and Madagascar

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FAO’s Early Warning-Early Action programme mitigates the impacts of disasters 

Today, the world is facing unprecedented humanitarian needs and increasingly frequent large-scale natural disasters. Natural disasters are occurring nearly five times as often as they did 40 years ago. Expanding needs, competing priorities and scarce resources globally mean that new tools are needed to ensure smart, effective investments to help stop the impact of disasters before they occur. Anticipating and mitigating crises has never been more critical. FAO has developed the Early Warning – Early Action (EWEA) programme to respond to this need.  

Early actions strengthen the resilience of at-risk populations, while protecting them against the impact of disasters and helping governments and humanitarian agencies respond more effectively. In addition, the costs related to disaster losses and emergency response can be drastically reduced by using early warning analysis to stimulate action before a crisis happens.  

In 2016-17, FAO rolled out the EWEA pilot programme in Paraguay, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, Sudan and Mongolia some of the countries considered high-risk for natural disasters and food insecurity. The EWEA programme supports FAO member countries to interpret forecast information and establish early warning thresholds, such as below average rainfall, unusual livestock movements and rising food prices. Once these thresholds have been surpassed, Early Action Plans are implemented with support from FAO’s rapid funding mechanisms. Rather than collecting funds after an emergency occurs, FAO has created the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA), which allows country offices to access funds based on the early warning triggers that indicate an impending disaster. Donors, like the Government of Belgium, have donated to this fund to support preparing for crises rather than only reacting to them.

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