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My vision (for anticipatory Action in Africa in the next 5 years)?
Effective and efficient framework for mitigating crisis and emergencies.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Antilope - always looking at signs of danger (through all senses) and ready to anticipate happenings.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
A continuum of the great exchanges experienced in the previous ADPs, and a consolidation of consensus around EW and AA.

My vision (for anticipatory Action in Africa in the next 5 years)?
Scientists, governments, humanitarian organisations and communities joining forces to make anticipatory action a default approach in addressing hazards and risks.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Since my childhood, elephants have been symbols of resilience, wisdom and community spirit for me - much like anticipatory action.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
A spirit of departure and confidence in shaping the future.

My vision (for anticipatory Action in Africa in the next 5 years)?
To provide leadership and strategic direction in building strong National Societies; Strengthening the resilience of communities and addressing the needs of vulnerable people in the region.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Lioness – She’s generous, has an intelligent heart and is the queen of the jungle.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect engaging, open discussions with knowledge sharing.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
In the coming years, anticipatory action will gain momentum because policy makers and users are already aware of and believe in the use and importance of forecasting. Also, small pilot projects have shown them concrete examples. For example, in Niger, the impacts of the 2020 floods were mitigated through the implementation of early actions in the Niger Red Cross FbF mechanism.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
LION
It evokes majesty, monarchy, strength, supremacy. In many cultures, the lion appears as the king of animals.
Therefore, anticipation is the best option for disaster and Conflicts management in Africa where the immediate availability of means for response are lacking.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
My wish is to see that national societies in Africa receive all the necessary support as indicated by the theme “Supporting effective anticipatory action in Africa” in order to reassure all partners that disaster anticipatory actions is the best option to manage disasters.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
To see a system with a capacity to inform any vulnerable community to make early action.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Ants

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect to share new experiences of different African contexts and to know the level of understanding and practice of anticipatory action in Africa

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Raise awareness and influence humanitarian, social protection programming to become more familiar and develop more initiatives assimilated as part of anticipatory action.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
A chameleon, as anticipatory action needs to constantly adapt to a changing environment, acknowledge lessons learned, secure its wins before moving to face greater challenges.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Learn about the other initiatives happening in Africa and how links can be established to strengthen impact and drive innovation, performance, and impact.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
To move the dialogue from emergency response to anticipatory action and disaster risk reduction approaches.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Birds because they take early actions (migration) based on early warning environmental information.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
To share knowledge and build relationships for better EWEA collaborations across the continent.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Better and more consistent evidence generation on what works and what doesn’t in anticipatory action.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
The interest and passion of everyone involved.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
An opportunity to share ideas, exchange experiences, learn new things and connect to new ‘anticipators’.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
To close data gaps to enable anticipatory action to reach areas which have not been reached before.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Cheetah – Knows exactly when to move where very fast!

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
To gain more insights into ongoing and future projects of AA.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Africa with an improved sustainable climate change through action geared at tackling vulnerability and its underlying causes as caused by the frequency, intensity and location of hazards of underlying phenomena such as urbanization, poverty, population growth and disease.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
I will go with an elephant due to its smartness, size and ability to recognise so many languages tying it up to the Anticipatory action in African, our hope is inspired by our strength, ruggedness and adaptation to changes which will surely translates to a positive result.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect wide range of information, knowledge and expertise sharing in such a way that it reaches the last mile as found in our respective communities considering it the approach as a sustainable one with less or no cost.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Better use of cheap technology for minimal useful data from local sources and designed for use by local actors. Example: epidemics and pandemics start in areas where anticipatory data was most neglected.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Ants. Best example of thinking ahead, teamwork and organisational skills and preparatory action for the group.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Greater lobbying power on national governments for climate preparedness for the poor; greater pressure on International bodies to push forward regional disease surveillance; identify and lobby for concrete climate extreme protection for the poorest and most vulnerable. Move out of stratospheric levels to community levels.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
More lives and livelihoods saved because we are making better use of forecasts and observations (including local knowledge!); that the humanitarian principles behind anticipatory action be well embedded within international policy and national systems; and finally that we will be constantly and openly learning from what works and doesn't in FbF programmes.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
The lioness - courageous, tough, and resilient, and with a strong sense of community and responsibility.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
For constructive discussions and meaningful connections to be had about all aspects of anticipatory action in the region and to learn new things that will be taken into ongoing and future work.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
My vision is that we use early warning and anticipate disaster to protect lives and livelihoods.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Not sure.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect concrete dialogue on the way forward as a community of practioners

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Effective early warning systems in place.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Buffalo - Aware of the dangers, but sometimes caught by surprise while trying to fullfill the needs.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
A mix of experience sharing on good practices of anticipatory action and effective early warning.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
I would like to see Africa overcoming unnecessary loss of life due to impacts of emergencies and shocks through timely response planning informed by the rich information and evidence generated through joint partners early warning information systems.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
An elephant represents Anticipatory Action in Africa because when it senses danger, it prepares and acts immediately and its so huge that its actions cannot be overlooked.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Honest introspection of what’s not working regarding linking early warning and early action and come up with actionable recommendations and key monitoring steps.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Greater coordination between the different disaster risk financing instruments.
Governments and other organisations working together, plan early and pre-arrange finance based on a joint understanding of risks in order to implement a coherent and holistic approach to anticipate and manage crises.
Funding is secured not only for implementing anticipatory action, but also the necessary investment in early warning, operational capacity and readiness for local actors to act ahead of crises based on forecast.
Sharing of data, coordinating trigger development and promoting joint planning across instruments (e.g: insurance and sovereign risk pools) will further promote anticipatory approaches.
Finally, to increase sustainability and to strengthen the resilience of at-risk people who have the greatest vested interest in acting early, funding should be allocated with the aim to strengthen locally-led humanitarian initiatives.
The increase in financing into global mechanism such as DREF, CERF and START financing must also go hand-in-hand with efforts to better embed anticipatory action within national mechanisms and budgetary tools if we are to fully mainstream the approach.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Elephants – When it senses danger, it prepares and acts immediately.

Anticipatory Action in Africa is becoming bigger, bolder and the why is because we can sense it, we can see it coming and we can also do something about it, so why not

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect sharing of context specific experiences and more importantly addressing the hard and difficult questions, openness regarding our challenges and also recommendations on how to become better and bolder with AA

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Anticipatory Action is the embedded in the DRM framework from global – regional – national and community level

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Crocodile – because it’s Strong and we can be that strong in the face of climate with AA embedded in DRM framework

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Practical strategizes on how to scale up AA in Africa

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Consolidation on the EW and AA approaches contributing to the most resilient communities for disasters.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Lion – Always know why, when, where, how to plan the plan in action.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Capitalizing the previous exercises and bring more consensus on the way forward to archive better approaches EW and AA for the benefits of the most vulnerable people in Africa.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Improved coordination and cooperation through coalition building.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
The monkey: Anticipatory Action in urban contexts can complex, and it takes patience, intelligence, and team work to figure out the problems and successfully implement the scheme.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect to build on the results of the urban session in the Southern Africa Dialogue and carry the conversation forward to the Global Dialogue in December.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
To be better prepared and address the roof causes of Conflits and Climat Change

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
the ant takes the time to anticipate the seasons and prepare mitigating measures to respond effectively

What do you expect from ADP 2021?

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Many more lives and livelihoods protected because anticipatory action have been scaled up and institutionalized!

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Leopard for its courage and agility!

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Open and honest conversations about successes and failures. Dynamic and interactive sessions that enables all to engage, learn and contribute. Keeping the tradition of enjoying some African music just like in the past Dialogue Platforms!

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
A more proactive and efficient way to manage disasters, owned and led by local stakeholders.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?

What do you expect from ADP 2021?

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
To enable a culture of anticipatory action that thrives on continious collaboration and learning across sectors

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Giraffe – they can see far ahead to anticipate risks and have oversight of the most vulnerable communities to warn them to act early

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
To recharge our batteries with lots of fun, interactive discussions and creative sessions

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Anticipatory action has scaled up and become an evidence-based interagency and governmental mechanism for multiple hazards.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Hippopotamus. When floods are coming hippos will move away from the water and the areas they pass through is where the floods will reach (local knowledge in Malawi).

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
To gain new insights and have lively interactions with my colleagues in Africa.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
For better sustainability & continuity of humanitarian assistance,
To better identify gaps & needs,
To build capacity of vulnerable people more.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Antilope - always looking at signs of danger (through all senses) and ready to anticipate happenings.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Strengthened collaboration
Identification of different approaches to providing fair & equitable assistance to all

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
“A range of regional & national owned and implemented mechanisms that routinely reduce suffering from regular hazards”

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
“The overlooked frog! Amphibious so can thrive in water (hydrological) and land (meteorological) environments, is well-camouflaged that seamlessly blends into effective DRR, and lays eggs of future development”

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
“A lot of listening, learning, and exchange. Most importantly, a range of practical outcomes that continue to professionalise and scale up this important work.”

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Increasingly accurate impact-based warnings are systematically linked to pre-arranged finance and participatory decision-making to reduce human suffering and strengthen resilience.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Impalas: they collaborate to detect warning signs of imminent threats, and they take immediate, coordinated action to mitigate impacts.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Open discussions at all levels to take stock of the great progress made so far, and to identify concrete next steps to overcome barriers towards fully incorporating AA within DRM policies and processes.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Let’s make this big!

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Leopard. Because Leopards are renowned for their speed, their agility and adaptability. That’s what we need with AA as well.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Inspiring stories and a dedicated community

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
To see Anticipatory Action mainstreamed into the local, country level and regional level plans and policies and the African communities owning and taking the lead in implementing and championing for scale up and financing of the process in their various contexts.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Elephants – When it senses danger, it prepares and acts immediately.

Anticipatory Action in Africa is becoming bigger, bolder and the why of doing it is very visible that it cannot be ignored.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
I expect engaging, honest and thought-provoking discussions and experience sharing from African stakeholders implementing anticipatory action on how we can build and strengthen systems to support effective implementation of anticipatory action in Africa.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Institutions and talents in Africa are equipped to implement both anticipatory actions and more long-term resilience projects, combining local knowledge with new digital technologies such as Earth Observation data.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Meerkats (Suricates) – A good vision and communication are their main strengths to alert about dangers.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Identify potential new projects, stakeholders, opportunity of collaboration and better understand Anticipatory Action needs and how GFDRR / World Bank can help.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Acting early to save lives and livelihoods.
Resilient, self-sufficient households in Southern Africa.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?

What do you expect from ADP 2021?

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Through a consolidated framework, AA will become a solid approach to mitigate and/or avoid impacts of crisis

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Gazelle. Always alert in detecting potential treats and capable to react quickly to events

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
A continuation and a consolidation of the AA pathway and it’s implementation framework

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
By 2026, AA is sustainably integrated in National policies and plans in the most at risk countries in Africa.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Cow:
Cows are many in my country, a big source of livelihood yet require attention. Some farmers believe cow behaviour can announce a possible storm especially when they start acting restlessly

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
More guidance on AA and covid19

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Anticipatory Action is developed and implemented to reduce the impact of the extreme events across the region

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Elephant – they have exceptional memories and cooperate with each other and act together. They remember past events and take cooperative actions for upcoming events

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Learning and sharing from different actors and apply them to step up and improve anticipation action in Africa as well as in other places around the globe

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Greater coordination and flexible disaster risk financing instruments to reach more people.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Flamingos: Because flamingos have long legs, they can wade into much deeper water than most other birds and When the water is beyond their wading depth they swim at the surface while feeding. They also migrate in search of water when the levels are too low.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Learning and sharing from different actors and apply them to improve anticipation action in Africa.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Aligning technical and financial resources for joint anticipatory action to reach scale, be more efficient and, protect more lives!

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
A butterfly: we are in the cocoon stage, getting ready to spread our wings and fly high!

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
A greater commitment from partners and practitioners towards coherence and alignment of FbF and anticipatory action interventions in Africa.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
In 5 years I see a majority of African countries with established multi-hazard AA system, able to act nationally as well as regionally to join forces to save lives against extreme events.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Baby elephant: it is still growing but elephants are known to have long life and good memory and this is what I wish for AA to all African countries

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
To hear about other experiences of integrating AA in existing response systems

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
Successfully linking risk analysis and monitoting to actions and protecting the livelihoods of the most vulnerable ahead of disaster and buiding disaster resilience in Southern Africa

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?

What do you expect from ADP 2021?

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
That the obvious, reoccurring vicious cycles of disasters are addressed at scale with anticipatory action that provides meaningful and targeted resources for action directly to the people at risk. And that new, innovative ways of using forecast data to improve people’s lives emerges from collaboration between the local people, universities, government agencies, private sector and more.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), the most desert-adapted African antelope using various migratory, dietary, heat protection etc. adaptation tools to protect from extreme weather events. Unfortunately very endangered.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Connections, new ideas and inspiration.

My vision of Anticipation in Africa for the next years?
AA implemented as part of a comprehensive and well-integrated risk management strategy to complement disaster risk reduction, seasonal preparedness and resilience-building activities throughout Africa.

What animal represents Anticipatory Action in Africa and Why?
A camel, because in the “good season” it prepares for a “bad season” and is thus prepared for prolonged harsh weather conditions.

What do you expect from ADP 2021?
Conversations that lay down a strong fundament for concrete steps toward a common understanding and vision of AA in Africa.