Strengthening the Linkages Between Social Registries and Climate Risk Data in Asia and the Pacific

Strengthening the Linkages Between Social Registries and Climate Risk Data in Asia and the Pacific

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2025.

English

68 p.

ELR3767

Explore how climate risk data enhances social registries and supports shock-responsive protection systems, with lessons from Sri Lanka, Lao PDR, and regional experiences across Asia and the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific region, highly vulnerable to climate change, experiences frequent and intense disasters that disproportionately affect low-income communities and threaten recent gains in poverty reduction. This report highlights the urgent need to build adaptive and shock-responsive systems by integrating climate risk data into social protection information systems. Drawing on case studies from Sri Lanka and Lao PDR, it presents key actions such as improving climate hazard mapping for better geographic targeting, incorporating climate vulnerability indicators into registries, identifying and supporting at-risk “non-poor” households, developing a household-level climate risk index, enhancing data interoperability across government systems, and fostering multisectoral coordination. These measures are essential to ensure timely, targeted support for vulnerable populations facing increasing climate shocks.

ELR 3767

WFPgo Docs - Full Text
WFPgo Docs - Policy Brief: Leveraging Social Registries for Climate Action in the Asia-Pacific Region
WFPgo Docs - Policy Brief: Strategies for Leveraging Social Registries for Climate Action in LAO PDR
WFPgo Docs - Policy Brief: Strategies for Leveraging Social Registries for Climate Action in Sri Lanka

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