FAO at the 2022 HNPW

The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is an annual humanitarian conference, one of the largest events of its kind, which provides a collaborative space for practitioners and experts from a large variety of humanitarian stakeholders including UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, academia, the military, private sector initiatives, and Member States. FAO co-organized two events, one on Anticipatory Action and one on Climate Resilience, besides being a speaker at the at an event on Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI).

The CADRI event (10 May) aimed at launching the CADRI Tool, which supports Governments, UN Country Teams experts and the Global Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Community to identify integrated solutions to tackle climate and disaster risk across various sectors through a participative and inclusive process. Besides FAO, the panel included UNDP, the CADRI Secretariat and IFRC. The recording of the event is available here.

The Anticipatory Action event titled ‘Reducing impacts of climate change and conflict through innovative collaboration’ (11 May), was organized together with WFP under the umbrella of the Anticipatory Action Task Force. The goal of the event was to spotlight evidence-based approaches and highlight best and emerging practices of anticipatory action for slow onset hazards and climate risks, while showcasing innovative methods of leveraging anticipatory action to mitigate compounding drivers (conflict, food security, disease) of humanitarian needs. The event examined examples across multiple regions, including the Central Sahel. The recording of the event is available here

The climate resilience event titled ‘Responding to food crises through building community resilience to climate related and other social-economics shocks’ (12 May) was organized together with the IFRC. The event saw the participation of speakers from Madagascar, Mali, Uganda and Zambia. It also included opening remarks from OCHA and interventions from the UK and EU. Read more here.