Guidance note on Nationally Determined Contributions for the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty
2025
This publication explores the Global Alliance’s Policy Basket, highlighting programmes such as adaptive and shock-responsive social protection, environmentally conditional cash transfers, and climate-resilient public works that can support countries in achieving their climate-related targets.
Delivering shock-responsive social protection to farmers and fishers in the Philippines
2025
The eighth issue of the Social Protection and Resilience factsheets documents FAO´s interventions in addressing the impacts of floods and typhoons in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao through adaptive and shock-responsive social protection. The document describes the results of two UN Joint Programmes and two DG ECHO programmes implemented between 2019 and 2023.
USP2030 Joint Statement: Key messages on social protection for the World Social Summit 2025
2025
Ahead of the World Social Summit 2025, the USP2030 Partnership calls for a renewed commitment to universal social protection through concrete actions. This includes leveraging climate action by expanding climate financing from multilateral climate funds and integrating social protection into government strategies, particularly within their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Tipsheets for applying the common principles for linking humanitarian assistance and social protection
2025
This compendium proposes clear actionable principles to ensure that humanitarian needs continue to be met, whilst laying the foundations for—and/or strengthening—comprehensive, inclusive and shock-responsive national social protection systems, and vice-versa.
FAO Social Protection Newsletter, February 2025
2025
Do you want to stay updated on the progress and challenges of social protection worldwide? The Social Protection Newsletter offers timely information about the efforts undertaken by FAO and stakeholders to expand access to social protection for rural populations. Published bimonthly, it includes a comprehensive selection of news, events, publications, and more.
Placing people at the centre of NDCs 3.0: The power of social protection to accelerate climate action
2025
This brief, developed by the Task force on Linking Adaptive Social Protection and Climate Financing in collaboration with the NDC Partnership, builds upon the content of the USP2030 brief on how to integrate social protection in NDCs. Aimed at Ministries of Environment and Finance, it explores the critical connection between social protection and climate action. FAO was involved as part of the drafting team.
The role of social protection in achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation
2025
This paper, published in Global Food Security, examines how social protection can lead to more resilient and inclusive rural transformation. It also acknowledges that social protection alone may not be sufficient to drive significant changes in livelihoods.
Integrating social protection in Nationally Determined Contributions
2024
Incorporating social protection into NDCs helps enhance inclusive and resilience climate action. FAO has collaborated with the USP2030 Working Group on Social Protection and Climate Change to develop practical guidance for practitioners on social protection to engage in the process of updating NDCs.
FAO Social Protection Newsletter, December 2024
2024
Do you want to stay updated on the progress and challenges of social protection worldwide? The Social Protection Newsletter offers timely information about the efforts undertaken by FAO and stakeholders to expand access to social protection for rural populations. Published bimonthly, it includes a comprehensive selection of news, events, publications, and more.
Mid-term report of the project Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change (PROEZA)
2024
This mid-term report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations from the evaluation of the project “Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change” (PROEZA). The recommendations focus on addressing design shortcomings, reinforcing leadership, establishing an exit strategy, and reviewing the Environmental and Social Management Framework.
Improving food security and nutrition through cash+ in Kyrgyzstan
2024
The seventh issue of the social protection and resilience factsheets analyses the nutrition-sensitive cash+ pilot implemented in Kyrgyzstan to support over 840 people living in remote rural areas at elevated risk of poverty and malnutrition. FAO enhanced the impact of the cash assistance provided by the government's monthly benefit for low-income families with agricultural inputs, assets and training.
FAO Social Protection Newsletter, October 2024
2024
Do you want to stay updated on the progress and challenges of social protection worldwide? The Social Protection Newsletter offers timely information about the efforts undertaken by FAO and stakeholders to expand access to social protection for rural populations. Published bimonthly, it includes a comprehensive selection of news, events, publications, and more.
Assessing the role of social protection to address the crisis in the Gaza Strip and West Bank
2024
This brief emphasizes the need for a comprehensive strategy that integrates immediate humanitarian aid and peacebuilding with long-term social protection and economic recovery efforts in response to the crisis triggered by the attack on 7 October 2023.
Promoting economic inclusion of small-scale farmers through homegrown school feeding in Timor-Leste
2024
The sixth issue of the social protection and resilience factsheets presents FAO’s efforts to operationalize the homegrown school-feeding model at local level in Timor-Leste, where FAO supported the nutrition of over 2 400 students while increasing the income and food security of vulnerable rural households and smallholders.
Synergies between social protection and rural development programmes for inclusive food systems
2024
This brief explores the importance of policy coherence between social protection and rural development programmes to address poverty, food security and nutrition. Drawing on the experience of two rural development programs in India, it presents three approaches for effectively building synergies.
Social protection in the face of renewed life-cycle risks: Assessing social protection’s role in Latin America and the Caribbean’s adaptation to climate change
2024
Latin America faces compounding crises that are reshaping the risk structure that social protection systems aim at addressing, including climate change. This brief outlines the rationale for enhancing social protection as an integral part of climate action, highlights the importance of intersectoral coordination in adaptation policy and offers a set of recommendations for the G20 to advance this agenda.
FAO Social Protection Newsletter, August 2024
2024
Do you want to stay updated on the progress and challenges of social protection worldwide? The Social Protection Newsletter offers timely information about the efforts undertaken by FAO and stakeholders to expand access to social protection for rural populations. Published bimonthly, it includes a comprehensive selection of news, events, publications, and more.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 -Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
2024
The annual report warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving the SDG 2, Zero Hunger by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years.
Investment case for anticipatory action and adaptive and shock responsive social protection in the Philippines
2024
This investment case provides evidence on the design and financing of anticipatory action and shock responsive social protection in the country.
Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions -First Progress Report, January 2023- April 2024
2024
This is the first progress report of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protetion for Just Transitions for the period 2023 to2024.The Global Accelerator was launched in 2021 by the UN Secretary-General to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by overcoming challenges of poverty and inequality.