Blogs

From storms in the Pacific to extreme heat in South Asia, if we want to help the communities most affected by climate shocks, we must move money before disaster strikes.

Counter Crisis returns to explore how pre-arranged financing can help countries on the frontline of the climate crisis respond faster and more effectively to disasters.

The second series of our podcast, Counter Crisis, is set to launch next week.

Disaster risk financing often overlooks women.

Hurricane Beryl in July 2024 presented an early test in the season for Jamaica’s disaster preparedness.

Exploring how the lack of transparency around the levels of costs and concessionality across different risk finance instruments hinders countries.

This blog reviews the record payouts from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) after Hurricane Beryl.

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.