Climate services for enhanced risk management, food security and resilience

Inter-Agency Consultation Meeting on User Interface Platform (UIP) , 26 September 2011

WFP Office for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

WFP global activities

In 2010Sri Lanka

DPRK

Nicaragua

Colombia

Guatemala

Honduras

El Salvador

Haiti

Cambodia

Nepal

BangladeshIndia

MyanmarTimor Leste

LaosIndonesia

Afghanistan

Philippines

Mali

MauritaniaEthiopia

Armenia

Tajikistan

Pakistan

Kenya

Sudan

Burkina Faso

MozambiqueGuinea Bissau

Senegal

Madagascar

Chad Burundi

Cameroon

Lesotho

Swaziland

Niger

Cote d’Ivoire

Kyrgyzstan Yemen

Malawi

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Uganda

Tanzania

Somalia

Ghana

Djibouti

Georgia

Rwanda

Congo

oPt

Egypt

Sierra Leone

Guinea

Central African Republic

WFP supportedover 105 million people

Around 80% of these people

depend on the climate for their

livelihoods

WFP’s use of climate info

WFP is a user, producer and “translator” of climate information:

• Food security early warning systems

• Humanitarian operations

• Resilience building

• Risk transfer and social protection

• Multihazard EW

• GHA Food Security Outlook takes climate forecasts and other data to project food security conditions 6 months in advance.

• Joint effort between WFP, FAO, FEWS NET, UNICEF and others

a) Food security early warning

• ITCZ projections and 7-day precipitation data used to plan logistical operations in Darfur (Darfur Crisis Rain Timeline)

b) Humanitarian operations

c) Resilience building

• Climate data used in Kenya by WFP, Ministry of Agriculture, and communities to design drought risk reduction activities

….Resilience building

• Climate data used in Bangladesh by WFP and the Government to train communities in disaster preparedness and enhance early warning systems

d) Risk transfer & safety nets

• Climate information used to trigger scale up of food security safety net through a weather-index

• WFP and World Bank support GoE through the LEAP project

• Partnership with MoA and NMA

• Global early warning systems (HEWSweb)

• Regional early warning systems for enhanced DRR (SATCA)

e) Multi-hazard early warning

f) Anticipating future risks…

• Climate information used with detailed food security and vulnerability data to identify the most vulnerable livelihoods

…Anticipating future risks…

• Partnerships between users and producers are critical to better use climate information for risk management

Resource scarcity (water, food)

Environmental degradation

Disasters

Population movements

Other risks

…Anticipating future risks…

Setting standards

Ensuring inter-operability

Communication and integration in decision making

Reaching the most vulnerable

Resources and capacities

Accountability: from early warning to early action...

Key challenges

Many thanks

Inter-Agency Consultation Meeting on User Interface Platform-26 September, 2011-

WFP Office for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction