WFP and Climate Change
2nd CLIMTRAIN workshop – IFAD
20 November 2008
Jordi Renart i Vila
Policy, Planning and Strategy Division
The United Nations World Food Programme
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•The role of WFP and Climate change
adaptation
•WFP’s engagement with the Nairobi
Work Programme
The role of WFP in Climate
change adaptation
In a context of…
• poverty
• conflict
• environmental degradation
• population pressure in fragile areas
Climate Change aggravates vulnerability to
hunger
WFP fights hunger in the front lines
of complex humanitarian crises
Responding to climate-related emergencies
• Through a global logistical apparatus and communications
infrastructure, and an extensive network of offices, sub-offices and
staff
Scaling up local and community-based projects to
reduce vulnerability
• E.g. social protection schemes such as cash or food-based employment
programmes for building climate-proofed infrastructure & sustainable
NRM
Providing global public goods that take into account
climate change risks on the most vulnerable
• E.g. Vulnerability analysis, needs assessments and risk transfer
mechanisms, such as weather-related insurance
WFP’s engagement with the
Nairobi Work Programme
WFP Action Pledges
WFP’s Action Pledges build on its existing
climate-related adaptation activities:
1- Responding to climate-related emergencies
2- Scaling up local and community-based projects to reduce
vulnerability
3- Provision of global public goods for adaptation
WFP’s Action Pledges:
http://unfccc.int/adaptation/sbsta_agenda_item_adaptation/items/4111.php
Example: WFP Action Pledge #3
Pledging to provide global public goods for adaptation WFP
responds to…
Call for Action 1: “Promoting development and
dissemination of methodologies and tools for impact and
vulnerability assessments, such as rapid assessments and
bottom-up approaches, including as they apply to sustainable
development”
Call for Action 4: “Promote the availability of
information on the socio-economic aspects of climate change
and improve the integration of socioeconomic information into
impact and vulnerability assessments”
Example: Progress Report on Action Pledge #3
In October 2008 WFP reported…
• The completion of 27 Comprehensive Food
Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVAs)
• Enhanced global preparedness through a
global early-warning monitoring service
•An initiative to accurately predict and assess
the impact of natural disasters on communities
and infrastructure
•A pilot weather risk management project for
the vulnerable poor in China (with IFAD)
For more information…
Jordi.RenartiVila@wfp.org