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Rural populations, especially small-scale producers and women, are disproportionately impacted by climate change since their livelihoods depend largely on natural resources and weather patterns. This paper...

The 2023 Climate Risk Insurance (CRI) Annual Report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP supported CRI programmes. It provides deep dives into the CRI...

This report provides an overview of WFP's progress in scaling up its Anticipatory Action (AA) operations, from covering 3.2 million people in 28 countries in 2022 to 4.1 million...

Policy and programme progress depends on reliable and timely evidence. WFP has been actively promoting the development and utilization of evidence products, emanating from research, assessments, and analytics...

Background Levels of child malnutrition and hunger across the world have decreased substantially over the past century, and this has had an important role in reducing mortality and improving...

Gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment (GEWGE) is fundamental to human rights and integral to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Ensuring gender equality and women’s and girls’...

For over a decade, WFP has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women’s economic empowerment. WFP presents its experience...

Key findings: In an average year, poor households lose 5 percent of their total income due to heat stress relative to better-off households, and 4.4 percent...

The global evaluation of UNICEF social protection responses towards universal child benefits aims to assess the role of UNICEF in the progressive expansion – and, ultimately, universalization...

Considering the unprecedented trend of rising humanitarian needs and the global food crisis in which climate shocks play a major role, WFP is integrating anticipatory action and social...