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This decentralized evaluation, commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Senegal, assesses the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project titled "Building the climate resilience of food insecure smallholder farmers through integrated management of climate risks (the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative)". Implemented by Â鶹ÊÓƵ in partnership with the Senegalese government, the project ran from 14 January 2020 to 14 October 2024.

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).

This evaluation covers both the 2011 policy on disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) and the 2017 climate change policy, given their conceptual, programmatic and organizational links.

For over a decade, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women¡¯s economic empowerment. Â鶹ÊÓƵ presents the story of women that have access to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s climate risk insurance and related interventions.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has extensive experience integrating climate risk insurance solutions as an element of financial and social protection. This factsheet provides a summary of the evidence on how Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported microinsurance programmes protect vulnerable populations from climatic shocks.