The 14th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action will be held under the theme 'Connecting efforts, strengthening systems, enabling scale: financing the future of anticipatory action'. Join us from 20 to 22 October 2026, in Berlin and online. In-person spaces are limited and by invitation only, but everyone is welcome to join online for three days of exchange, learning and debate. Register below to be part of the conversation.
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The craft of the community quilt
Family quilts are pieced together with heatmap and rainfall data, folkloric iconography, and children’s drawings. Don’t the best quilts feel so cozy and protective because the squares are sourced from a diversity of textiles, colors, and memories? One small piece of fabric could never make something large or warm enough for all.
Extending this idea to the anticipatory action story, the quilt demonstrates how the best protection is made from many forms of knowledge. In southern Africa, small cooperatives are being reimagined in this way: webs of support and wisdom spanning all the corners of communities, displacing the Western-knowledge hierarchy. This becomes a kind of resilience, one that can wrap around all of us.