Publications

WFP is collaborating with a range of public and private sector partners to develop climate risk finance programmes that help governments and vulnerable households to anticipate, absorb and rapidly recover from climate shocks. This Brief provides an overview of these programmes and how WFP is deploying integrated climate risk financing mechanisms that allow for predictable anticipatory and early responses, significantly reducing the human suffering and capital losses from weather and climate-related disasters.

The impacts of climate variability and change are already visible in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). WFP is working with governments, communities and other partners in LAC to strengthen people’s climate resilience.

One-page lowdown on what the World Food Programme is doing to achieve zero hunger.

Mozambique is highly exposed to weather-related hazards and faces periodic cyclones, droughts and floods. With predicted 800,000 people in severe food insecurity in the 2018-19 lean season, DFID funded WFP and HelpAge to provide cash transfers or commodity vouchers to around 120,000 beneficiaries in Tete province. Two notable features were introduced in the intervention. The first was linking the lean season assistance with social protection, by involving national social security institutions and prioritizing recipients of routine social assistance programmes. The second feature was providing transfers through a ‘separation of functions’ approach, with programme implementation and accountability roles divided between WFP and HelpAge. The interventions also created an opportunity to develop lessons on the use of unconditional cash transfers - unlike other countries in the region, cash transfers have not been used in disaster response owing to government concerns about dependency, expectations, responsible spending and market access. After cyclones Idai and Kenneth hit Mozambique in March-April 2019, the breadth of the exercise was expanded to consider emerging issues on the planned use of social assistance for recovery.

This report is the result of a study commissioned by the World Food Programme in Mozambique and undertaken by an independent consultant, with financial support from the UK Department of International Development.

An overview of WFP’s role as the world’s leading humanitarian organization both saving and changing lives.

This factsheet shows how WFP climate action is contributing to improving the prospects for peace.

The decentralized evaluation has been commissioned by the WFP Ethiopia Country Office and covers the first year of the Satellite Index Insurance for Pastoralists in Ethiopia (SIIPE) pilot programme (2017-2019).

The second quarter of 2019 focused on the implementation of R4 activities in each of the six countries.

Climate and food security analyses are an important first step to identify the most appropriate policies and progammes that WFP, governments and partners can consider when designing a climate change adaptation intervention. This guidance explains the different types of climate analyses, as well as the steps and methodologies to conduct them.

During this quarter, the initiative focused on commencing activities in each of the R4 countries. Following dry spells during the 2018 agricultural season, the indexes were triggered in Ethiopia and Senegal. In Kenya, assessment of farmers’ average yields took place in January to analyse the level of payouts for the 2018 short rains season. In Zambia, the index triggered and payouts will be disbursed during the following quarter. In Malawi, the R4 team focused on monitoring of interventions and planning activities for 2019. In Zimbabwe, an outcome monitoring exercise was conducted to determine the effects of the initiative on household resilience. Results from the survey will be presented in the next Quarterly Report.

Based on fact-finding mission from 25-28 December 2018 in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts.

Forecast and readiness for emergency response.

Findings and recommendations to inform new policies and country strategic plans.

The Year in Review describes WFP’s actions and achievements in serving people’s emergency, recovery and development needs in 2018. It covers WFP’s provision of vital, common platforms and services for the humanitarian and development community.

In 2018, WFP Mali began the implementation of its Transitional-Interim Country Strategic Plan (T-ICSP), which has been aligned to national priorities and which has different strategic outcomes and areas of intervention to support the Government towards the achievement SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnership for SDGs). To learn more about our work….

Forecast-based Financing enables anticipatory actions for disaster mitigation at the community and government level using credible seasonal and weather forecasts. With climate change acting as a risk multiplier, WFP is strengthening this work with investments in Forecast-based Financing and anticipatory action across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

In 2018, The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) scaled up to over 87,000 farmers (benefitting approximately 545,000 people) in Ethiopia, Senegal, Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In addition, nearly 6,000 non-R4 farmers have accessed insurance developed by the R4 initiate, either delivered through non-WFP programmes or by paying their insurance premium fully in cash.