WFP's Food Security Climate Resilience Facility (FoodSECuRE) will shift the humanitarian model from a reactive system to one that looks forward and saves more lives, time and money. Both FoodSECuRE and a Red Cross project in Uganda - one in a range of Red Cross-Red Crescent forecast-based financing pilot projects - have been activated in recent weeks to meet climate-related disasters, the dramatic predictions of El Niño and extreme weather.
An anticipatory response not only protects people's lives: new WFP research shows it also saves money. A 2015 FoodSECuRE analysis in Sudan and Niger shows that using a forecast-based system would lower the cost of the humanitarian response by 50 percent.
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