Blogs

This report offers an in-depth assessment of pre-arranged financing tools using seven key criteria for ensuring pre-arranged financing reduces the human and financial costs of disasters.

The Centre for Disaster Protection’s report offers a detailed analysis of to what extent pre-arranged financing is shaping disaster response across the globe.

Our new insight paper explores the complexities of international premium support and identifies core challenges with current approaches to the allocation and design of premium subsidies.

The Centre’s first published annual report detailing our progress and the challenges we’ve encountered, and showcases our impact from July 2023 to June 2024.

Counter Crisis, the three-part podcast series by Centre for Disaster Protection, is now available to download across all major podcast platforms.

In Episode 3 of the Centre for Disaster Protection's podcast, Counter Crisis, we discuss why the race against the next pandemic has already started.

In Episode II of the Centre for Disaster Protection’s podcast discusses the latest break-throughs in the global financing architecture dealing with the climate change.

This poddiscuss the complexities and challenges surrounding global disaster planning and financing. What needs to change to ensure the most vulnerable communities receive the protection they need? sat

We take a look at what the World Bank’s new Crisis Toolkit means for IDA countries, and what it could do to strengthen pre-arranged financing targets, crisis preparedness and partnerships.

In a new three-part podcast series, Counter Crisis, experts discuss the state of pre-arranged financing for disasters and how we can prevent climate-related disasters from devastating the lives of the most vulnerable,

This blog lays out an agenda for action on pandemic financing in 2024 for world leaders.

Read more about how Conor, an earth sciences and geophysics specialist, came to apply his expertise in disaster risk finance.

The Centre recently published findings from a multi-year research exercise that set out to understand whether it is currently possible to quantify how much money should be pre-arranged to protect low income and vulnerable populations in response to future crises.

Pre-arranged financing (PAF) for disasters has the potential to significantly increase the predictability, speed and effectiveness of responses to shocks, reducing the human and financial costs.

The launch of a new risk transfer instrument by the IFRC marks an important milestone for risk transfer in humanitarian contexts.

For the past two years, our Advisory team has worked with the International Federation of the Red Cross to explore an innovative financing project supporting the ambition to scale the Disaster Response Emergency Fund using risk transfer and the private insurance market.

On this International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Anna Svensson reflects on the Centre's evidence workstream and how tackling disaster inequality underpins our focus on impactful disaster risk finance.

In this blog post, we highlight the need for pre-arranged financing, fit-for purpose instruments and the right incentives to facilitate timely and effective outbreak response.

In our latest insight, Anna DeGrauw explores the critical connection between disaster risk finance and disaster risk reduction within the UN frameworks.

This blog navigates the complexities surrounding the intricate landscape of funding arrangements aimed at addressing climate-related losses and damages, shedding light on the Global Shield's role as an essential piece in this broader mosaic.