Forecasting hazards, averting disasters

7.1   Approaches to scaling up

Humanitarian agencies and governments are beginning 

to scale up their FbA initiatives in a number of ways. 

Most have started by implementing pilots and gradually 

expanding the reach and scope of these initial experiences. 

Scaling involves physical expansion (replicating 

approaches to new territory and addressing additional 

hazards), greater social reach (increasing coverage in 

number or scope of people targeted), extending political 

engagement and institutional capacity (policy and budget 

commitments and mainstreaming FbA within institutions 

by expanding early action to other programmes and 

institutional processes) and deepening the conceptual 

framework around FbA (transforming mindsets, 

administrative structures and power relations) (UNDP, 

2013). Scaling can also enable more comprehensive action 

based on forecasts. The examples in Table 2 show how 

experiences with scaling up FbA have involved much more 

than simply covering larger populations.