R4 Rural Resilience Initiative. Quarterly Report: April - June 2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2020.

English

38 p.

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R4 reached over 93,000 farmers (60 percent women) during the 2019/20 agricultural season in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2020, R4 expanded to Bangladesh, where the initiative launched an index-based flood insurance product, in partnership with Oxfam Bangladesh and Green Delta Insurance Company Ltd, protecting 2,000 casual labourers engaged in agricultural work from catastrophic flood events. This year, the initiative is also being rolled out in Madagascar, where R4 is targeting 3,500 farmers with insurance and a set of integrated risk management strategies. During the quarter, R4 programme activities were adapted to follow respective countries’ COVID-19 preventive measures. This resulted in some changes with regards to conditionality mechanisms for farmers to access insurance policies, with some countries modifying or removing the conditionality. COVID-19 preventive messages were disseminated leveraging existing project structures and systems, such as radio platforms used for climate services, bulk messaging, or through savings groups. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, R4 countries are preparing for the 2020/21 agricultural season.

Electronic ed.

WFP 385.2020 Vol.2

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