Building Climate Resilience of Food-Insecure Smallholder Farmers through Integrated Management of Climate Risks (R4 Rural Resilience Initiative): FP049
Project Outline
This project seeks to improve the food and income security of 405,000 people from vulnerable smallholder households, including female-headed/widowed households, in the regions of Kaffrine, Kolda, Tambacounda, Fatick, and Kaolack in Senegal, by building their resilience to increasingly recurrent climate shocks and supporting adaptations to the adverse impacts of climate change. The project scales up the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (risk reduction, risk transfer, prudent risk-taking, and risk reserves) to mainstream an integrated risk management approach for vulnerable smallholder farmers in Senegal.
| Country(ies) | Senegal |
|---|---|
| National Designated Authority (NDA) | Ministry of the Environment of Senegal |
| Accredited Entity (AE) | United Nations World Food Programme: WFP (International) |
| Executing Entity (EE) | WFP and the Secrétariat Exécutif du Conseil National de Sécurité Alimentaire of the Governement of Senegal (SE/CNSA) (Public) |
| Date of Final FP Submission | June 2, 2017 |
| Estimated Project Duration | 2017-2021 |
| Target Sector | Agriculture |
| GCF Financing | 9.983521 million USD (Grant) Micro |
| Co-financing | N/A |
Project Description
< Major Project Components>
- Provision of climate adaptation assets (risk reduction).
- Setting up weather index insurance (risk transfer).
- Supporting savings and small loans through the Savings for Change (SfC) program (risk reserves and prudent risk-taking).
- Offering surplus production storage in WFP Village Cereal Banks (risk reserves and prudent risk-taking).
Potential Indicators of Key Impacts
Expected total number of direct and indirect beneficiaries, disaggregated by gender (reduced vulnerability or increased resilience):
- Direct beneficiaries: 405,000 persons (more than 50% of total beneficiaries are expected to be female)
- Indirect beneficiaries: 121,500 persons
- 48% of the total population, including indirect beneficiaries
