Building the Evidence Base for Early Action

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Building the Evidence Base for Early Action

Date added

06 April 2016

Summary

The benefits of early action are mostly uncontested among humanitarian actors. Nevertheless, humanitarian actors still find it challenging to act early for a variety of reasons.

This report was commissioned by the Start Network to examine these challenges, review the evidence base for early action and to explore the conditions in which early action is effective in addressing humanitarian situations.