Anticipatory action and cash transfers for slow-onset hazard events: Practitioners’ note for field testing (12 Mar 2024)

cash transfers in slow-onset AA (2023)

• slow-onset Anticipatory Action

• drought AA case studies: Vietnam, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, and Tuvalu

• Cold wave AA: Mongolia dzud

• Proposed framework for field testing

• Meteorological drought: Occurs when dry weather patterns dominate an area, typically defined based on the degree of dryness and the duration of the dry period.

• Hydrological drought: Occurs when low water supply becomes evident and is associated with the effects of precipitation shortfalls on surface or subsurface water supply.

• Agricultural drought: Occurs when agricultural production is affected, focusing on precipitation shortages, differences between actual evapotranspiration, soil water deficits, reduced groundwater, etc.

• Socioeconomic drought: Relates to the supply and demand of economic goods with elements of meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural drought. It arises when the demand for an economic good exceeds supply due to a weather-related shortfall in water supply.