The dashboard provides annual coverage and payout data for calendar years 2017 to 2024. Instruments approved before 2017 are included if they remained active from 2017 onwards.

The dashboard includes data on the following international pre-arranged financing instruments available to governments and humanitarian organisations:

1. Contingent (disaster) loans and contingent (disaster) grants from three Multilateral Development Banks 

• Development Policy Financing with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option ^[1] (World Bank) 
• Investment Project Financing with a Deferred Drawdown Option (World Bank) 
• Contingent Credit Facility for Natural-Disaster and Public-Health Emergencies (Inter-American Development Bank) 
• Contingent Disaster Financing (Asian Development Bank)

2. Regional risk pool insurance from four regional risk pools

• African Risk Capacity (ARC) ^[2]
• Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility SPC (CCRIF SPC) 
• Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC)
• Southeast Asia Disaster Risk and Insurance Facility (SEADRIF)

3. Catastrophe bonds intermediated by Multilateral Development Banks

• World Bank

The State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025 report also includes data on anticipatory action frameworks used by humanitarian organisations, but these are not included in the dashboard.

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 _{[1] The dashboard shows IPF DDOs related to disasters and public health emergencies, not those related to financial sector shocks, such as a banking crisis that negatively affects the finances of a government or state-owned institution.}

_{[2] This includes African Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica, which allows non-governmental organisations, such as the World Food Programme (WFP), to purchase insurance policies.}

No. The dashboard does not include all pre-arranged financing instruments. Instruments are included only if they meet all the following criteria:

• The financing has been approved in advance of a crisis and is guaranteed to be released to a specific implementer when a specific, pre-identified trigger condition is met.
• The instrument is predominantly used for geophysical hazards, climate-related shocks and public health crises.
• The instrument is provided by an international financial institution (e.g. a Multilateral Development Bank) or a regional risk pool.
• The recipient is a sovereign government or humanitarian agency.
• The necessary information about the instrument is publicly available or has been shared by the provider.

The aggregate figures are therefore underestimates. While the dashboard includes contingent loans and grants from MDBs, it does not include those offered by bilateral development partners such as the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) or the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). MDB-facilitated reinsurance and swaps are also excluded from this version of the dashboard. Domestic forms of pre-arranged financing, such as national disaster funds or contingency reserves, are not included either.

See more details in the State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025 report.

For each pre-arranged financing instrument, the coverage is the maximum amount of financing a government or humanitarian organisation could have received in that year.  For all instruments (except for ARC, CCRIF SPC and PCRIC insurance policies) we count coverage over calendar years.  For ARC, CCRIF SPC and PCRIC insurance products we count coverage over a policy year, and record it in the year the policy year started.  For example, for a policy year from September 2017 to August 2018, the full coverage amount over that policy year is counted in calendar year 2017.

Coverage therefore shows the cumulative coverage over the policy year for ARC, CCRIF SPC and PCRIC insurance products plus the cumulative coverage for other instruments over the corresponding calendar year.  For the avoidance of doubt, it does not show the maximum level of financial protection available at any single point during the year.

In State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025, this concept was called ‘International PAF’; in the dashboard, it is called ‘coverage’.

For all instruments, payouts are the cumulative amounts of pre-arranged financing actually released to a government or humanitarian organisation in the calendar year. 

Where available, the downloadable data includes key dates for each instrument, such as when coverage started and ended.

For all instruments, except ARC, CCRIF SPC and PCRIC: 

• If an instrument became effective in 2017, its coverage amount was first counted in the 2017 column.
• If there were payouts in 2017, they were subtracted from the coverage amount in the following year (2018).
• If the final closing date was in 2018, the 2019 coverage amount became ‘0’, so the change was recorded in the following year.

For ARC, CCRIF, SPC and PCRIC: 

ARC, CCRIF SPC and PCRIC typically report coverage over one policy year. We count that coverage in the calendar year in which the policy year started. For example, if the policy year was 2017/18, the full coverage amount is counted in 2017.

See more details in the data assumptions section of the State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025 report.

To standardise hazard types reported by providers, we used the EM-DAT ‘disaster type’ classification. This includes drought, earthquake, epidemic, flood, storm and volcanic activity. Where multiple hazard types were recorded, they were classified as ‘multi-hazard’.

Because country income groups can change over time, the dashboard uses the World Bank classification for the year an instrument became effective when reporting coverage figures, and the classification for the year an instrument disbursed when reporting payouts.

Where country classifications were unavailable, countries were included in the aggregate analysis where possible, but not in analyses that rely on those classifications.

The dashboard and downloadable Excel data include all country-level data that we have permission to share. CCRIF country-level coverage data are confidential and are therefore not shared.

Data on contingent loans and grants from MDBs, as well as regional risk pools, were compiled from publicly available sources and, where these were not accessible, provided directly by the relevant providers. When data were collected from sources such as providers’ websites and reports, providers were asked to review and validate the information and correct any inaccuracies where needed.

Information on World Bank (IBRD) catastrophe bonds was sourced from the Artemis Catastrophe Bond & Insurance-Linked Securities Deal Directory.

See more details in Annex 2 of the State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025 report.

The Centre aims to update coverage and payout data annually.

Centre for Disaster Protection. (2026). State of PAF dashboard. Centre for Disaster Protection, London.

If you have any questions or notice any errors in the data, please get in touch with info@disasterprotection.org.