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 2010 Sri Lanka DPRK Nicaragua Colombia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Haiti Cambodia Nepal Bangladesh India Myanmar Timor Leste Laos Indonesia Afghanistan Philippines Mali Mauritania Ethiopia Armenia Tajikistan Pakistan Kenya Sudan Burkina Faso Mozambique Guinea Bissau Senegal Madagascar Chad Burundi Cameroon Lesotho Swaziland Niger Cote dIvoire Kyrgyzstan Yemen Malawi Zambia Zimbabwe Uganda Tanzania Somalia Ghana Djibouti Georgia Rwanda Congo oPt Egypt Sierra Leone Guinea Central African Republic WFP supported over 105 million people Around 80% of these people depend on the climate for their livelihoods

WFPs 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, WFP Office for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction