Forecasting hazards, averting disasters

6.1.3   Cost of interventions at scale

Investing in early action and wider resilience-building 

measures can be expensive. While many measures are 

‘no/low regret’, the types of actions that may mitigate 

an impending crisis can be costly at scale, for example 

in contexts with chronic and severe poverty. In many 

cases, the more expensive investment scenarios may be 

offset by the avoided cost of humanitarian response, 

but this is not a given and must be carefully assessed in 

order to determine the most cost-effective package of 

interventions in an SOP.