Central Asia, a landlocked region with a continental climate prone to extreme weather, faces rising climate risks as rainfall variability and drought increasingly threaten household welfare. This webinar presents new evidence from a multi‑country household panel survey conducted between 2021 and 2023 across Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and satellite weather data. The study examines how weather shocks, such as rainfall shortages, affected income, financial distress, and food insecurity. The session will highlight which households are most vulnerable and discuss implications for climate‑resilient social protection and adaptive policy design in the region.