Week 7: Climate Risk Adaptation

FAO, in partnership with the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), presents the seventh and last session of the tailored e-learning course on Designing and Implementing Adaptive Social Protection Systems. This session focuses on managing climate risk management through social protection. Mr Arghya Sinha Roy, Senior Climate Change Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, outlines why social protection is important in a world with a changing climate, what is needed to ensure social protection truly builds resilience of most vulnerable households and how these concepts can be operationalized with examples from several countries. Then, Mr. Damien Riquet, Anticipatory Action Specialist at FAO, focused on FAO’s efforts to link anticipatory action (also called forecast-based financing or early warning early action) to the social protection system in the Philippines, with specific examples from the island of Mindanao.