Annual report

partnership with WFP, FAO, OCHA and START 
Network, the hub hosted a Global and Regional 
Dialogue Platform (Asia Pacific, Africa, Americas) 
on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action, bringing 
together more than 2,000 practitioners, scien-
tists and policymakers from 140 countries from 
the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, UN, NGOs, 
government, think tanks, academia and others.
The Anticipation Hub also continued to improve 
and update its databases (for triggers, evidence 
and catalogue of anticipatory action) and 
provided a comprehensive global map of imple-
mentation in more than 60 countries.
In addition to the working groups on Earth 
Observation EO4AA; conflict; protection, gen-
der and inclusion; monitoring evaluation and 
learning working group (MEAL); and linking risk 
financing and anticipatory action, two new work-
ing groups were launched.
These were an Internal IFRC network 
group hosted by the Red Cross Red Crescent 
Climate Centre and German Red Cross, and an 
external working group hosted by MSF and OCHA.
Altogether, the Anticipation Hub working groups 
bring together more than 500 members to iden-
tify and collate evidence and research priorities, 
discuss methodological approaches and guid-
ance, share lessons learned, and jointly develop 
work packages.
For more information please visit:
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Cash Hub
Hosted by the British Red Cross
cash-hub.org
The Cash Hub, hosted by the British Red Cross, 
accelerates the use of cash and voucher assis-
tance (CVA) in the Red Cross and Red Crescent 
to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of 
humanitarian action.
The Cash Hub provides technical support to 
National Societies investing in cash preparedness 
and operational support to CVA programmes.
The Hub also supports the development of 
knowledge, skills and expertise of humani-
tarian professionals through the work of the 
Cash School’s Cash Practitioner Development 
Programme – an intensive learning programme 
to develop CVA expertise through training, 
one-to-one mentoring and a set of learning 
deployments.
A key Cash Hub resource is the online platform 
(cash-hub.org), which enables knowledge sharing 
and information exchange among the network 
of cash practitioners in the Movement. In 2022, 
the Cash Hub platform launched a Helpdesk to 
provide remote technical support to National 
Society staff and volunteers engaged in CVA 
preparedness, response and recovery activities.
In 2022, the platform published more than 90 
CVA resources in English, Spanish, Arabic, French 
and Russian.