Asia and the Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region is making significant strides in advancing social protection systems, despite being highly vulnerable to climate change and below average spendings on social protection programs.
FAO focuses on climate-smart social protection for farmers, fishers, and foresters, by providing social assistance before and during environmental shocks, and integrating farmer registries with social registries. To accelerate these outcomes, FAO conducts livelihoods and resilience analyses, strengthens social protection policies to ensure adequate coverage and financing, and enhances interoperability between administrative systems. By engaging with ASEAN and supporting national initiatives in the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Laos, FAO promotes resilience and effective support systems for vulnerable rural populations.
Countries
News
Strengthening social protection for Indigenous Peoples in Nepal: FAO project kicks off
14/03/2025
This initiative aims to develop policy recommendations ensuring Indigenous Peoples access adequate social protection against climate shocks and other...
FAO leads the integration of social protection with climate action, resilience and disaster risk management in Asia and the Pacific
21/02/2025
FAO workshop gathers governments and country offices to finalize the Social Protection Strategy on Inclusive Climate Action and Resilience.
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FAO launches new project to strengthen the resilience of Indigenous Peoples through social protection
20/06/2024
The project involves consultations with Indigenous Peoples to assess their food and knowledge systems, as well as their access to opportunities,...
National consultation: Schock responsive social protection in anticipatory action
03/04/2024
Participants explored the integration of anticipatory action within social protection frameworks, and identified pathways for strengthening partnership...
Publications
Delivering shock-responsive social protection to farmers and fishers in the Philippines
04/2025
The eighth issue of the Social Protection and Resilience factsheets documents FAO´s interventions in addressing the impacts of floods and typhoons in...
Myanmar: Improving food security and nutrition with cash assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic
05/2024
The fourth issue of the social protection and resilience factsheets recounts the cash+ intervention implemented in Rakhine State, Myanmar, at the height...
Enhancing resilience and restoring agricultural productive capacity and food security through social protection in Indonesia
05/2024
This fact sheet recalls the design and implementation of an emergency intervention in response to the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia....
Investment case for Anticipatory Action through adaptive and shock responsive social protection in the Philippines
04/2024
This investment case study shows that the government has various effective and financially viable Anticipatory Action programming options at its disposal...
Viet Nam: Addressing negative socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through social protection
02/2024
This fact sheet documents the intervention which aimed to help households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions to cover their...
Videos
Homegrown school feeding
03/04/2024
In Timor-Leste, connecting farmers to stable local markets by supplying locally produced food to schools is improving their economic inclusion.