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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...

Building on analysis and lessons learned these reports provide recommendations to strengthen and institutionalize linkages between disaster risk finance and social protection to make systems more...

The objective of these studies is to generate evidence and inform practice for improved emergency preparedness and response in the Caribbean region linked to more flexible national social protection systems...

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...

This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to WFP’s effective positioning and contribution within this space. This brief explores...

Identifying and assessing adaptation options are key pre-requisite steps to adaptation prioritization and effective adaptation planning. In this paper, we presented a systematic approach for adaptation stocktaking...

Summary: Despite accounting for roughly one-third of global emissions, food systems receive a disproportionately low share of climate finance in comparison to other heavy-emitting sectors. The finance...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), with funding received through WFP’s Innovation and Knowledge Accelerator (INKA), is piloting an index insurance product in Côte d'Ivoire...

Under high climatic, disease and market uncertainty, smallholder farmers make heuristic decisions on whether to manage risk and invest in profitable alternatives or, as a risk-averse mechanism...

WFP is a leader in promoting sovereign insurance products that can offer rapid finance to affected communities in the event of major disaster. By connecting climate and disaster risk financing...