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While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such as cyclones and droughts are rampant. This factsheet brings to the fore climate change challenges in the region and how Â鶹ÊÓƵ is supporting the people in adapting to this unrelenting phenomenon.

This briefing investigates the ¡®driving forces¡¯ or ¡®trends¡¯ shaping southern African food systems.

Given the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition prevalent in the Southern African region, this paper analyses the role of food security and nutrition in social protection programming and in bridging the humanitarian- development divide using the COVID-19 experience of several countries in the region.

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource management through asset creation or improved agricultural practices (risk reduction), microinsurance (risk transfer), increased investment, livelihoods diversification, and microcredit (prudent risk taking) and savings (risk reserves).

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource management through asset creation or improved agricultural practices (risk reduction), microinsurance (risk transfer), increased investment, livelihoods diversification, and microcredit (prudent risk taking) and savings (risk reserves).

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau Johannesburg commissioned this decentralized thematic evaluation, which was conducted by Forcier Consulting

The National Zero Hunger Strategic Review aims to facilitate implementation and progress towards SDG 2 and SDG 17 to enable Madagascar to work towards eliminating food insecurity and malnutrition and improve the quality of stakeholder engagement with the Government, align it with national development objectives and facilitate strategic consultations. The Strategic Review (i) identifies gaps in interventions, resources and institutional capacity at the national level, and (ii) proposes priority areas for action where all stakeholders could achievement of SDG2.

This policy brief outlines Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s role in ensuring social protection systems are inclusive of people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV.

(Angola, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

This decentralized evaluation commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Madagascar Country Office covered the period January 2015 to June 2019 and was carried out from September 2019 to May 2020.

This Synthesis of Operations Evaluations for the Southern Africa Region brings together the findings of 11 operations evaluations, conducted from mid-2013 to mid-2017.

This synthesis presents findings of evaluations conducted between July 2016 and June 2017, covering 15 operations of varying types, durations, sizes and settings, with a total planned value of USD 2.3 billion (over USD 1.35 billion funded), which targeted 19.7 million beneficiaries a year.