Activity

WFP

Priority area according Activity report or Web

to the capacity- Activity Objective/target of activity Date and Agencies involved link for further

building framework location information

(a) Institutional Establishment of a In line with its strategic objective to “strengthen the capacity of Ethiopia. LEAP is a GoE-led Vam.wfp.org/leap

capacity-building, National Weather countries to reduce hunger” (SO 5), WFP‟s Livelihoods, Early Ongoing since project. WFP provides

including the Risk Management Assessment, Protection (LEAP) project in Ethiopia assisted the 2006. technical assistance.

strengthening or Framework in Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to establish a national weather The project is financed

establishment, as Ethiopia to climate- risk management framework. One of the main objectives is to by the World Bank‟s

appropriate, of national proof the improve the flexibility of the PSNP to respond to more severe Global Facility for

climate change Productive Safety extreme weather events, ensuring sustainability and Disaster Reduction and

secretariats or national Net Programme effectiveness of the PSNP in view of climate change. As part of Recovery (GFDRR)

focal points; (PSNP) and the LEAP project, a drought and flood based livelihood and WFP.

improve emergency protection index is calculated to inform early warning and guide

response disbursement from a 160 million US dollar multi-stakeholder

contingency fund for a timely temporary scale up the PSNP.

This allows for an early intervention to protect not only lives,

but also smallholders‟ livelihoods and constitutes a shift from

managing disasters to managing risks. As part of the project‟s

capacity building component, WFP supports the establishment

of a risk management unit within Ethiopia‟s Ministry of

Agriculture and Rural Development.



Development of Development of more effective weather risk management Ongoing since The development of An online version of

Africa RiskView approaches and tools with the geographical focus on sub- 2009 Africa RiskView has so Africa RiskView will be

and its underlying Sahelian Countries aiming for the improvement of ex-ante far been funded available December

methodology as a contingency financing and support of improved disaster exclusively by the 2010.

tool for quantifying preparedness and contingency planning. Trainings on the use Rockefeller

weather related of the software will be provided to regional and national Foundation.

food insecurity risk institutions, partners and WFP country offices during the Technical partners

in dollar terms remaining months of 2010 and the upcoming year 2011 include FEWSNET,

covering 32 Sub- NOAA, FAO, the EC‟s

Sahelian countries. Joint Research Centre

and the Politecnico di

Torino project for

Information

Technology for

Humanitarian

Assistance.

Building Also in line with SO 5, WFP supports governments in building Various. National DRM http://www.lcgbanglades

governments‟ capacity in disaster response in most of the countries it operates. Ongoing institutions, here: h.org/derweb/index.php

capacity in disaster For example, in Bangladesh, WFP supports the multi- Bangladesh‟s Ministry

response stakeholder coordination forum „Disaster and Emergency of Food and Disaster

Response‟ (DER) Group. DER is the most active inter-agency Management chairs the

coordination body in Bangladesh, and roughly equivalent to an Group. WFP acts as a

in-country IASC team. WFP supports the Government‟s Secretariat. WFP plans

coordination role in emergency situations specifically in to hand over the

systematic sharing of ground level information, information Secretarial role to the

management, emergency needs assessments & food security GoB in 2010. Members

assessments, food security mapping and analysis. The Mission include: GoB bodies,

of the DER Group is to “Increase the effectiveness of its UN agencies, donors,

members‟ disaster preparedness and response efforts in order to int. and nat. NGOs and

reduce the vulnerability of the poorest and most affected academic institutions.

members of society”. One of the objectives of DER is to

enhance disaster preparedness and response capacity of the GoB

and partners.



(b) Enhancement and/or Continued support Ethiopia‟s PSNP targets chronically food insecure people who Ethiopia. Government of WFP Ethiopia, Annual

creation of an enabling to Ethiopia‟s are at constant and increasing risk of floods or droughts and lack Ongoing Ethiopia Report 2009

environment; Productive Safety resources to invest in risk reduction and adaptation to climate

Net Programme change. Part of the PSNP provides people with food and cash

(PSNP) - a platform in exchange for building infrastructure or for time spent on

for adaptation learning new skills on sustainable land and watershed

management, enabling these communities to build resilience to

climate-related risks. WFP supports the PSNP through technical

advice and by providing food to the programme‟s beneficiaries.

Through the MERET (Managing Environmental Resources to

enable Transitions to More Sustainable Livelihoods) Project,

WFP has contributed to the design of the PSNP and the

formulation of the community-based participatory watershed

development guidelines, which form the basis of the

Government‟s Sustainable Land Management Strategy.



Support for the WFP‟s is running Food for Work (FFW), Food for Assets Various, National governments,

design and (FFA) and Food for Training (FFT) programmes that provide ongoing UN agencies, NGOs

implementation of productive safety nets and contribute to economic growth

social protection increased resilience to climatic and environmental stresses

programmes that among the most vulnerable in more than 50 countries. In

build resilience to Zambia, for example, FFA and FFT programmes support the

climate change creation/rehabilitation of productive rural assets (e.g.

conservation farming) so as to increase the population‟s

resilience to drought and floods. WFP also supports training and

study tours for district and sector authorities to increase their

capacity to formulate and implement social protection

programmes.



Successful WFP and IFAD, in partnership with Guoyuan Insurance (a local End 2009 Government of China, WRMF publication „The

registration of insurance company), successfully managed to register two BMGF (Bill and potential for scale and

weather index weather index based insurance products with the China Melinda Gates sustainability in weather

based insurance Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). Both products Foundation), WRMF index insurance for

products with the concern rice whereas one covers the incidence of drought and (weather risk agriculture and rural

China Insurance the other covers heat-waves. The objective of the project was to management facility, a livelihoods‟ (May 2010)

Regulatory introduce new weather insurance products in the Chinese WFP-IFAD

Commission market as an alternative to the regular multi-peril crop insurance partnership)

(CIRC) schemes in place, in order to make insurance more accessible to

smaller farmers in remote rural areas who could not afford

insurance products without the generous support of Government

of China subsidies of up to 80% of the premium.



(d) National climate Leading the design WFP has been involved in assisting and informing the design of 2009-2012, National governments,

change programmes; and implementation many national adaptation strategies (the NAPAs). It has recently Uganda and WFP, FAO, UNDP,

of the UN Climate led a joint-UN effort in Uganda to design and implement the other UNEP, UNICEF,

Change Program UN Uganda Climate Change Program on behalf of the WHO, WMO,

government. The objective was to design and implement

national strategies and programs to increase the resilience of the

most vulnerable to climate change. A similar process is under

way in Egypt.

(f) Vulnerability and More than 260 food WFP Food Security Analysis conducts more than 100 food 2009 and National governments, www.wfp.org/food-

adaptation assessment; security and security and vulnerability assessments every year, informing 2010, WFP, FAO, UNHCR et security

vulnerability governments‟ policies and programs and the wider UN various al.

assessments community„s planning, programming and fund raising and

conducted enhancing governments‟ capacity to prevent and manage

weather and climate related disasters. It provides an in-depth

picture of the food security situation and the vulnerability of

households in a given country. WFP‟s Food Security Analysis

Service increasingly focuses on further strengthening

methodologies for assessing the impact of climate change on

food security.



Development of At the national level, the Livelihoods, Early Assessment, Ongoing Government of Vam.wfp.org/leap

software to assess Protection (LEAP) project in Ethiopia has developed a software Ethiopia, WFP, the

vulnerabilities – application that allows for an estimate of livelihoods at risk of World Bank‟s Global

national level droughts and floods and the costs of supporting these additional Facility for Disaster

beneficiaries of the Productive Safety Net program (PSNP). The Reduction and

software also indicates vulnerabilities and provides an early Recovery (GFDRR) et

warning and contingency planning information. Currently, a al.

climate change modelling/ downscaling component is being

developed and will be included in the LEAP software in 2011.



Development of With the help of technical partners WFP has developed Africa Ongoing since Rockefeller An online version of

software to assess RiskView, a software application that calculates the probable 2009 Foundation, WFP, Africa RiskView will be

vulnerabilities – and worst-case costs of weather-related food security assistance, FEWSNET, NOAA, available December

regional level every ten days for every first-level administrative unit in the FAO, European 2010.

sub-Saharan African countries where WFP is present. In Commission Joint

addition to using historical and real-time weather data, future Research Centre (JRC)

climate change scenarios can also be processed through Africa et al.

RiskView using the tool for a continent-wide impact analysis of

climate change on African food security. This information can

not only give decision-makers some understanding of what

assistance may be needed in the future, but the information

could also be used to target investments in climate change

adaptation and disaster risk reduction.



(g) Capacity-building for Trainings to As part of the MERET (Managing Environmental Resources to Ethiopia, Government of WFP Ethiopia, Annual

implementation of national enable Transitions to More Sustainable Livelihoods) Project in ongoing. Ethiopia, WFP Report 2009

adaptation measures; implementing staff Ethiopia, WFP has provided trainings to national implementing

on participatory partner staff (777 in 2009) on participatory watershed

watershed development and sustainable land management.

development



Capacity building In every country that WFP operates in, it supports governments Since 2006. Government of Vam.wfp.org/leap

in contingency in their contingency planning activities. For example, under the Intensified in Ethiopia, WFP, the

planning risk management framework capacity component of the LEAP 2009 and to be World Bank‟s Global

project, WFP (through secondments and trainings) supports the continued Facility for Disaster

Government of Ethiopia in establishing the implementation Reduction and

capacity to run contingency plans, which form an integral part Recovery (GFDRR) et

of the national risk management framework described above. al.



Capacity building The LEAP software, developed as part of Ethiopia‟s weather Since 2009, Government of Vam.wfp.org/leap

in the use of agro- risk management framework under the LEAP project, provides Ethiopia Ethiopia, WFP, the

meteorological decadal accurate agro- meteorological (climatological) World Bank‟s Global

(climatological) information that is free of charge and available to anyone. As Facility for Disaster

information part of the handover to Government, WFP also provides Reduction and

trainings to staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Recovery (GFDRR) et

Development, the National Meteorological Agency and other al.

governmental institutions from national to sub-regional level on

the use and application of the software.



(i) Research and Enhanced WFP supports the strengthening of governments‟ emergency Ongoing, National governments http://www.wfp.org/our-

systematic observation, government early preparedness by providing a global early-warning monitoring worldwide/ and research institutes, work/being-ready,

including warning and service, mainstreaming contingency planning and devising Central WFP http://www.satcaweb.org

meteorological, emergency internal and external information websites to share preparedness America

hydrological and preparedness information. Globally, WFP‟s Emergency Preparedness and

climatological services; capacities Response Officers have developed a comprehensive multi-

layered Early Warning System. For example, in Central

America, WFP has promoted SATCA (Sistema de Alerta

Temprana para Centroamérica) – an innovative regional disaster

early warning initiative in collaboration with national, regional

and international institutions and partners. The aim of SATCA

is to strengthen early warning systems across disaster-prone

Central America to enhance humanitarian preparedness and risk

reduction capacities among local and regional actors. The

SATCA project also supports South-South cooperation and the

transfer of knowledge and skills between countries across the

region.

Installation of low As part of Ethiopia‟s weather risk management framework Ongoing, Government of For further information,

cost weather under the LEAP project, WFP also supported the expansion and since 2009. Ethiopia, WFP, the please contact

stations improvement of the weather data infrastructure (installation low World Bank‟s Global Niels.Balzer@wfp.org

cost weather stations). Since 2009, 24 automated weather Facility for Disaster

stations have been newly installed, also in pastoralist areas. Reduction and

Additional 30 stations to follow now and mid 2011. Recovery (GFDRR) et

al.



(j) Development and Weather-index Under the WRMF (weather risk management facility, a WFP- 2009, China Government of China WRMF publication „The

transfer of technology based insurance IFAD partnership), WFP supported the Governments of and Ethiopia and Ethiopia, Guoyuan potential for scale and

pilots in China and Ethiopia and China as well as local private insurers in the design Insurance und Nyala sustainability in weather

Ethiopia conducted and implementation of weather index insurance schemes. Insurance, BMGF, index insurance for

WRMF (weather risk agriculture and rural

management facility, a livelihoods‟ (May 2010);

WFP-IFAD Detailed evaluation

partnership) reports of the pilots can

be obtained from

Niels.Balzer@wfp.org