WFP’s climate and resilience investment pipeline

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WFP’s Climate and Resilience Investment Pipeline, first launched in December 2023, is the organization’s main vehicle to scale up financial, technical and partnership support to provide immediate climate protection, accelerate adaptation and build long-term resilience for the most food-insecure populations in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS). Currently, it covers more than 60 countries with 60 programmes and project concepts. With less than 1% of climate finance currently directed to the FCS contexts for adaptation and resilience-building efforts, the Pipeline aims to mobilize the resources required to assist national governments and local communities to avert, minimize and address losses and damages from more frequent and intense climate extremes, while reducing humanitarian needs and boosting food security by 2030.

The interlinkages of climate, fragility, and hunger

For 72 million people in 18 countries

Climate extremes were the primary driver of acute food insecurity in 2023

15 out of 20 countries

that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change are fragile and conflict affected.

Land degradation already affects 3.2 billion people

with ever increasing annual global losses of healthy and productive land; up to 70% of WFP beneficiaries are smallholders living in and relying on degraded lands for their livelihoods, and who experience repeated climate shocks.

3-times more people

are affected by extreme weather events in fragile and conflict-affected situations than people living in other countries.

Up to 80 times less climate finance

received per person and year in extremely fragile countries, compared to people in non-fragile countries.

In 2020/21, less than one percent

of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to extremely fragile contexts included climate adaptation as a principal objective.

Launched with the COP28 Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery, and Peace, the Pipeline promotes integrated and innovative programming, financing, and partnerships for greater efficiency and results. Resourcing and implementing it shows WFP’s commitment to the COP28 Declaration and meet COP29 Azerbaijan’s climate, peace, and security goals. It aims to help people in fragile and conflict-affected settings achieve Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), while reducing hunger, improving gender equality, safeguarding development investments, mitigating conflict, and sustaining peace.

Covering regions from the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, Haiti to Afghanistan, and Yemen to Myanmar, WFP’s Climate Resilient Investment Pipeline offers context-specific solutions across diverse countries. The scope of the Pipeline is expanding over time with the inclusion of several programme design and financing arrangement solutions in the latest edition.

Initiative key pillars

Scaling up

climate protection and risk management coverage to reach more people and communities with assistance that saves lives, assets, and livelihoods.

Investing

in resilience strengthening to reduce humanitarian needs, including ecosystem-based solutions, climate smart physical infrastructure, and human capital for enhanced adaptive capacity.

Building

sustainable and strengthen the resilience of local food systems and value chains for greater long-term food and nutrition security.

Examples of key interventions

Access to early warning systems, anticipatory action, climate risk insurance, shock-responsive social protection
Soil restoration, rainwater harvesting, integrated water resources management, smallholder farmers training, livelihood diversification, sustainable energy solutions
Regenerative agricultural practices, post-harvest loss management, connecting smallholder farmers to markets

Partnering with WFP for results

No country or institution can tackle the climate and hunger crisis on its own. Partnership is at the heart of WFP’s Climate Resilience Investment Pipeline to unlock solutions and resourcing for a future where climate risks are adequately managed and fragile landscapes are returned to their productive potential so sustainable food security can be achieved. We invite government donors, International Financial Institutions (IFIs), multilateral climate funds, foundations, philanthropies and corporations to join forces and contribute to sponsor these international finance-eligible and resilience building projects to stem the rising tide of climate-induced hunger.

For further information about the investment pipeline, contact us at: wfp.climateinvestment.pipeline@wfp.org