Revision as of 14:39, 10 March 2021

General

Name of initiative	R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
LPAA initiative	Yes
NAZCA Initiative	Yes
Website address	https://www.wfp.org/r4-rural-resilience-initiative
Related initiatives
Starting year	2011
End year
Secretariat	World Food Programme (WFP), Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68, Parco dei Medici, 00148 - Rome - Italy, Tel: +39-06-65131, Mr. Fabio Bedini; e-mail: fabio.bedini.@wfp.org; Mr. Mathieu Dubreuil, e-mail: Mathieu.dubreuil@wfp.org
Organisational structure	WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks. As of 2020, R4 reached over 200,000 households (about 1 M people) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Madagascar through a combination of four risk management strategies: improved resource management through asset creation (risk reduction); insurance (risk transfer); livelihoods diversification and microcredit (prudent risk taking); and savings (risk retention).
Geographical coverage	Africa
Name of lead organisation	World Food Programme
Type of lead organisation	International organisation
Location/Nationality of lead organisation	Italy

Description

Description	The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) is a comprehensive risk management approach to help communities be more resilient to climate variability and shocks. As of 2019, R4 reached over 87,000 farmers (about 450,000 people) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe through a combination of four risk management strategies: improved resource management through asset creation (risk reduction); insurance (risk transfer); livelihoods diversification and microcredit (prudent risk taking); and savings (risk reserves). In 2018, around US$ 1.5 million of insurance payouts were distributed through the initiative in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Zambia to compensate for weather-related losses. Through its innovative integrated climate risk management approach, R4 enables the poorest farmers to access crop insurance by participating in risk reduction activities. Assets built through such activities – including WFP’s Food Assistance for Assets programmes – promote the resilience of farmers and their families by steadily decreasing vulnerability to disaster risks over time.
Objectives	500,000 insured farmers by 2020
Activities	R4 builds on the success of the Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) project in Ethiopia. It gives poor farmers and rural households the option to pay for insurance by contributing their time and labour to local climate adaptation measures, such as soil and water conservation, crop irrigation and community forestry. Video about R4 at its web-site.
One or two success stories achieved

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative	Implementation, Funding, Technical dialogue
Activity of initiative	Technical operational implementation (ex-post), Financing, Knowledge dissemination and exchange
Indicators
Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals
How are you tracking progress of your initiative
Available reporting

Participants

Participants

Number

Names

Members

2

Companies

0

Business organisations

0

Research and educational organisations

0

Non-governmental organisations

2

WFP (Italy), Oxfam America (USA)

National states

0

Governmental actors

0

Regional / state / county actors

0

City / municipal actors

0

Intergovernmental organisations

0

Financial Institutions

0

Faith based organisations

0

Other members

0

Supporting partners

0

Number of members in the years

Have only national states as participators

No

Theme

Transport	Agriculture	Forestry	Business	Financial institutions	Buildings	Industry	Waste	Cities and subnational governments	Short Term Pollutants	International maritime transport	Energy Supply	Fluorinated gases	Energy efficiency	Renewable energy	Supply chain emission reductions	Adaptation	Other	Resilience	Innovation	Energy Access and Efficiency	Private Finance
No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No

Last update: 13 February 2023 13:26:53

Not only have national states as participators

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 |Secretariat=World Food Programme (WFP), Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68,  Parco dei Medici,  00148 - Rome - Italy, Tel: +39-06-65131, Mr. Fabio Bedini; e-mail: fabio.bedini.@wfp.org;
 Mr. Mathieu Dubreuil, e-mail: Mathieu.dubreuil@wfp.org
-|Organisational structure=WFP and Oxfam America (OA) launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural households to increase their food and income security in the face of increasing climate risks. R4 builds on the initial success of the Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) initiative, pioneered in Ethiopia by Oxfam America, the Relief Society of Tigray (REST) and Swiss Re.
+|Organisational structure=WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.
+As of 2020, R4 reached over 200,000 households (about 1 M people) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Madagascar through a combination of four risk management strategies: improved resource management through asset creation (risk reduction); insurance (risk transfer); livelihoods diversification and microcredit (prudent risk taking); and savings (risk retention).
 |Geographical coverage=Africa
 |Name of lead organisation=World Food Programme