Success Stories FbF LAC 2021 Vol. 2 | Page 28

Forecast Based Financing (FbF) is an Anticipation mechanism implemented worldwide by the German Red Cross through three regional programs in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) the FbF mechanism was piloted in 2015 in Peru and Ecuador and is now also developed (in different phases) in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Argentina.