The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
AAP supports anticipatory action: evaluating triggers, preparing pre-agreed actions and readiness, and handing activation to the institutions that hold the funds and mandates. It releases nothing automatically.
Fig.The Nexus cycle, from question to renewal. Design, not a record of a run.
Anticipatory Action Platform is the Nexus Foundry system for evidence-triggered playbooks, trigger evaluation, readiness and action records. It serves 4 platforms, among them Food Nexus as well as Disaster Resilience and Recovery, and its stated limit is that it releases no funds and dispatches no one automatically. Access is through an authorized project with an accountable owner, data terms and a review plan.
Urban demand centres and the hubs that anchor digital and data infrastructure, shown for the contiguous United States as an example geography for this subject.
Anticipatory action links a forecast threshold to pre-arranged actions and finance. Its quality depends on trigger skill (how often it fires correctly), the cost of false alarms and misses, and the readiness of the actions it triggers.
| Reference | Relevance |
|---|---|
| Anticipation Hub resources | Practice in forecast-based action |
| Sendai Framework priority four | Preparedness for effective response |
| IEC 31010 | Event-tree and decision analysis for triggers |
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Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anticipatory action | Pre-agreed action and finance released on a forecast or early warning trigger, before a hazard's peak impact. |
| Trigger | A pre-agreed forecast or observed threshold that releases planned action or finance when it is crossed. |
| Early action protocol | A pre-approved plan setting triggers, actions and budgets for acting ahead of a hazard. |
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