Blogs

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.

The Centre’s new guidance on accountability provides an accessible framework that applies core elements of accountability to the specificities of DRF instruments.

The Centre for Disaster Protection recently concluded learning exercises on the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Anticipatory Action (AA) pilots in Nepal and Bangladesh, as part of our process learning support to OCHA.

In our latest insight, we discuss country ownership, international responsibility and a global ‘risk deal’ to upscale protection in climate-vulnerable countries.

“I thought my year-long secondment to the Centre for Disaster Protection would teach me a lot about the world of international development and disaster risk financing. However, it has also taught me a lot about myself.”

Our new insight paper takes a closer look at disaster risk finance for pandemic and epidemic outbreaks.

How much pre-arranged financing is there, and where does it go? We investigate.

We are mourning the loss of our dear colleague, Jon Gascoigne.

As the World Bank welcomes its newly appointed leader, Ajay Banga, this post explores the practical and philosophical considerations associated with multilateral lenders taking the lead in implementing pause clauses.

The Centre for Disaster Protection partnered with Tortoise Media to host a thought-provoking online on the pressing issues of accelerating debt, climate change, and disaster risk.

In this insight, Lydia Poole, Associate Director for Evidence, shares her thoughts on what the evaluation of the intervention could mean for a system-level shift towards anticipatory response.

Our new Insight Paper examines an innovation in sovereign debt contracts that may be groundbreaking in its potential impact – a debt pause clause.

In August 2022, extreme monsoon rains exacerbated by glacial melt runoff, resulted in catastrophic floods in Pakistan.

In this insight, Lead Risk Finance Adviser Conor Meenan explores why countries might choose to buy risk transfer even when costs are high and discusses aspects of the bond that affect its final price.