What We Do

Evidence

Insights to inform decisions, policy, and action in disaster risk financing

Decisions about how to plan and pay for disasters are only as good as the evidence behind them. The Centre's research fills gaps in what is known from the state of pre-arranged financing globally to what countries actually need from it.

That evidence informs policy at the national and global levels, bringing governments and partners toward a more grounded understanding of how to close the crisis protection gap.

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The state of pre-arranged finance

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What do countries want from pre-arranged finance?

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A vast resource of insights and learning for countries, governments and organisations to use.

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Adaptive social protection in the Sahel

The Centre provides support to the World Bank and country governments to strengthen the design and delivery of adaptive social protection systems in the Sahel.

The state of pre-arranged finance

Our annual data-led report provides analysis and trend monitoring around investments in and coverage of pre-arranged financing for disasters.

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Crisis Protection Gap

Our research into the crisis protection gap explores whether current data can capture the true costs of crises facing vulnerable communities.

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Tracking national budget reallocations in response to Covid-19

Although expenditure reallocation is an important part of any government’s disaster response financing, there is very little data on its scale or cost. This work seeks to plug this knowledge gap.

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Can anticipatory action be sustained at scale?

Drawing on OCHA's anticipatory action programme in Bangladesh, this report examines what governments, funders and humanitarian actors need to put in place to make early action the norm rather than the exception.