Households that received the transfer were far less likely to go a day without eating, reported higher child food consumption and wellbeing after the floods hit, lost fewer assets, and had better earnings potential post-flooding. And these benefits accrued well before conventional humanitarian aid would have been delivered. These results aren’t outliers. In Northern Nigeria, anticipatory transfers supported better adaptation and resilience investments. Famine early warning systems have long been used to fundraise for remedial work, and in Ethiopia and Kenya, existing cash transfer programmes were used to avert its worst effects on the basis of expected famine conditions. En savoir plus