Global Policy Engagement
Bringing people together to improve disaster planning and financing.
A crucial part of our work is convening. We seek to use our impartiality to become a critical friend and a positive disruptor for governments, funders and practitioners looking for disaster risk finance solutions.
As convenors, we create common ground and help develop creative solutions for the benefit of communities exposed to disaster risk.
High-Level Panel on Closing the Crisis Protection Gap
The High-Level Panel on Closing the Crisis Protection Gap formed in January 2024, bringing together a group of 20 expert members from across sectors and geographies.
The panel included representatives of humanitarian groups, finance leaders and policymakers, all working together to break down silos and move towards a crisis financing architecture which is fit for purpose.
Over the past year, the panel engaged with key stakeholders, reviewed the evidence and gathered insights to develop its vision. The resulting ten-step roadmap for scaling up pre-arranged finance, known as Crisis Protection 2.0, offers a blueprint for action, providing governments and institutions with practical, actionable solutions for addressing the challenges of tomorrow’s disasters.
The report was launched at an FT Live event on January 30th 2025, where we saw momentum and a genuine appetite for the messages the report was delivering. Download the full report, or watch the keynote speech by The Rt Hon Anneliese Dodds MP, Minister for Development, FCDO below:
Crisis Lookout Coalition
The Centre convened the Crisis Lookout Coalition calling for a smarter system approaches to ensure that funding for disasters better protects more people caught up in crisis, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. The Coalition came together in 2021 and 2022 to convene policy dialogues in partnership across sectors and geographies to successfully advocate for key political and funding commitments at the 2021 and 2022 G7, and at COP26.
Although the Crisis Lookout Coalition sunset in 2022, the Centre will continue its legacy to call for more and better pre-arranged finance, informed by a better understanding of risk information and the protection gap and that prioritises the most vulnerable to threats. The Centres evidence and policy engagement work will seek to shift policy and practice within the international crisis financing system, to achieve better quality, more equitable disaster risk finance at scale. We will continue to work in close collaboration with local-to-global partners from across public, private and civil society sectors to strengthen opportunities for influence to make pre-arranged finance the default by 2030.
