Anticipatory cash assistance: an overview of emerging insights, challenges and opportunities for innovation
Resource details
Resource type: Report
Organisation: British Red Cross, Cash Hub
Region: Global
Category: Early Action and Emergencies
Tags: Anticipatory Action
Publication year: 2025
Language: English
Description
This report summarises key findings and insights gathered through an innovation project brief which focused on leveraging cash assistance in anticipatory action to enable communities to better prepare for and be less impacted by disasters. The research identifies and unpacks some of the main challenges and opportunities within anticipatory action, and specifically in terms of utilising anticipatory cash assistance; and uses a data, technology and information management (IM) lens to suggest areas of potential innovation. It seeks to offer practitioners a springboard for further innovation and development in support of better and more impactful anticipatory cash assistance.
