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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...

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...

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...

Key messages: Climate change and malnutrition are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. A common set of risks and vulnerabilities across people and societies means...

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...

Millions of children are being driven from their homes by weather- related events, exacerbated by climate change. While the link between climate change and displacement is complex...

This summary of evaluation evidence brings together findings from 44 evaluations commissioned by WFP, covering the period 2018-2023. The summary offers lessons on WFP’s social protection programming...

Highlights: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...