📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: WFP - World Food Programme
Land: Developing countries, unspecified Funding amount: € 2,400,000.00 Start: 01.07.2024 End: 31.12.2029
Short description:
Project goal
The overall goal of the World Food Programme’s Global Anticipatory Action Trust Fund is to reduce the impact of predictable extreme weather events on the food security, lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations and to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters.
Expected results
With the contributions to the Global Anticipatory Action Trust Fund, WFP aims to
- develop anticipatory action systems in 40 countries by 2025,
- approve 35 anticipatory action plans, covering at least 5 million people by 2025.
Target group
The Austrian contribution will allow WFP to reach people in the most vulnerable situations ahead of imminent extreme weather events and reduce acute humanitarian needs from these predictable crises.
Measures
With the Austrian contribution, the WFP will implement
- actionable early warning activities like gender and nutrition sensitive advisories,
- anticipatory unconditional and conditional cash transfers,
- provision of drought tolerant agricultural inputs.
Background information
Climate disasters and extreme weather events can rapidly become deadly emergencies, with high economic and human costs. Moreover, as climate change worsens resource scarcity, spikes food prices and disrupts incomes, it can exacerbate or trigger conflict and poverty. In 2022, climate extremes pushed more than 50 million people into acute food insecurity and led to the displacement of 32 million people within their own borders. By 2050, this number could rise to 216 million people. In this context, evidence demonstrates that investments in anticipatory action saves lives and upholds the dignity of people at risk of climate hazards and reduces humanitarian costs.
