Box 7. REAP aims to make 1 billion people safer from disasters by 2025

Box 7. REAP aims to make 1 billion people safer from disasters by 2025

REAP brings together an unprecedented range of stakeholders across the climate, humanitarian and development communities committed to driving a systemic shift towards acting earlier – in advance of a hazard striking - to reduce the impacts of disasters.30

To underpin this shift towards earlier action, the basic observational data

exchange, supported by SOFF, will lead to improved, earlier, more reliable weather and climate forecast prediction everywhere, the basis on which anticipatory action plans and triggers are built. Improved data will reduce forecast inaccuracies and support the uptake of risk-informed early action approaches.

For this reason, SOFF is recognized as a core initiative to support the achievement

of REAP Target 3: $500 million invested in early warning system infrastructure and institutions to target early action in ‘last/first-mile’ communities, building on existing initiatives.31