Anticipatory Action in Conflict Settings: A Hands-on Introduction

The course will be facilitated by Catalina Jaime from the Red Cross Climate Centre and draws on expertise from the multi-agency practitioner group on anticipatory action in conflict-affected settings hosted by the anticipation hub.

Catalina Jaime is a Colombian-British humanitarian focused on advancing practice, research and policy to support climate action for people affected by conflict. Catalina has helped coordinate the strategic development of anticipatory action and is a co-lead of the working group on AA in conflict of the Anticipation Hub. 

The instructional team is further made up of expert practitioners who have long been working to bring anticipatory approaches to the forefront of humanitarian action and conflict settings for several years.

Evan Easton-Calabria has worked as a consultant with the Red Cross Climate Centre since 2019, focusing on the intersection of climate, conflict, and displaced populations. She is a Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the structure of humanitarianism and development, including refugee self-reliance, anticipatory humanitarian action, urbanisation, and localisation. She previously worked at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, where she also holds a Masters and PhD in International Development. She is the author of Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development: A critical history (Bristol University Press, 2022) and co-author of The Global Governed: Refugees as providers of protection and assistance (with Alexander Betts and Kate Pincock, Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Marcel Goyeneche has a Master's in International Humanitarian Action and over twelve years of experience working on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, disaster preparedness and response and humanitarian action in armed conflict. Throughout his work with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, he has held field level and management positions. In his roles, Marcel has conducted situational analysis, humanitarian assessments, response design, implementation and developed institutional capacity building and learning strategies. Marcel works as an independent consultant since 2017, facilitating capacity building, learning initiatives, programme analysis and development focusing on disaster risk reduction, protection, climate change adaptation and school safety. His clients include a range of UN agencies, intergovernmental organisations, international NGOs and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

With over 7 years of experience in data and analytics in humanitarian response, Seth Caldwell is a data scientist at OCHA’s Centre for Humanitarian Data. He and the rest of the predictive analytics team develop triggers and manage the technical work for OCHA’s AA pilots on drought, floods, and other shocks. In the past year, Seth has led the Centre’s work exploring the potential of conflict prediction models and their applications for AA.