Blogs

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.

When disasters strike, governments are often forced to raid their existing budgets and make difficult trade-offs to finance emergency relief and recovery.

There is growing operational convergence between disaster risk finance and social protection, notably cash transfer programmes. But where does gender fit into these discussions?

The chance of another deadly pandemic is significant, but the current level of global investment in PPR does not yet provide the kind of protection the world needs for effective response.

As part of a series of conversations tackling the sticky questions around disaster risk and climate change finance, Centre experts seek to address key questions around climate change-induced losses and damages, and the role of disaster risk finance in tackling them.

With the hoopla of COP, you would be forgiven for missing a modestly-attended panel discussion on The Case for Climate Resilient Debt Clauses, a superficially simple idea that nonetheless could help pivot hundreds of billions of dollars towards tackling disaster risk.

The Sahel G5 group of countries- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger- are increasingly poised between promises of stability and growth and the mounting sources of stress and uncertainty that could mire the region’s progress.

A new evidence review from the Centre for Disaster Protection and ODI introduces the key issues around climate change-induced losses and damages and the role that DRF mechanisms could play in tackling them.