Expert Meeting – Requirements of Weather Markets WMO December 5, 2007 Ulrich Hess, Chief of Business Risk Planning Ulrich Hess, Chief of Business Risk Planning WFP Initiatives
AGENDA WFP & WFP Strategy Initiatives –WFP/IFAD partnership China Global Weather Risk Market Making –Ethiopia Phase II
WFP RESPONSE IN EMERGENCIES CORE TARGETED PROGRAMMES HAVING THE BEST ANALYTICAL AND OPERATIONAL TOOLBOX AVAILABLE HANDING OVER TO PARTNERS TRANSFERRING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE TO COUNTRIES INVESTING IN PREVENTION PRECURSOR EFFORTS FOLLOW ON EFFORTS PARTNERSHIPS operations in 78 countries Budget of USD 2.9 billion 88 million people assisted 4 million tonnes of food
ETHIOPIA PHASE II Occurrence (no. of years) Drought severity – Early Livelihood Protection costs (Mil Euro) Insurance Contingency Grant/Fund/WFP CEMOP Flash Appeal Productive Safety Net 7.3 Mil Safety Net Beneficiaries6.7 Mil Livelihood Protection Target Beneficiaries
WFP/IFAD GLOBAL WEATHER RISK MARKET MAKING Core team of Experts & Market Makers Create Global and national public goods that enable weather risk markets –Weather Data (real time+historical) & Weather Data Infrastructure –R&D –Technical Assistance for demonstration projects Crowd in Weather Risk Takers
Support Levels
Vision: From small contracts…
….for small farmers…
…to large safety net contracts… Occurrence (no. of years) Drought severity – Early Livelihood Protection costs ($US Mil) Insurance Contingency Grant/Fund/WFP CEMOP Flash Appeal Productive Safety Net 8.3 Mil Safety Net Beneficiaries7 Mil Livelihood Protection Target Beneficiaries
…protecting vulnerable households!
HENCE: LARGER SHARE OF NON-OECD CONTRACTS…. Distribution of total number of contracts by region
…AND SIZABLE NON-OECD MARKETS!
China GoC/IFAD/WFP Weather Index Insurance Feasibility Study –Flood Index based Protection –Drought Index Insurance Demonstration and replication effects
CONCLUSION: Weather Index based risk transfer is important.... Destitution Dignity Risk financing Cost Climate Change
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