Crisis
A situation creating severe and widespread needs that exceed the existing local and national capacities to prevent, mitigate, or respond. This includes crises arising from a range and combination of hazards including conflict, weather and climate-related events and stresses, and disease (Centre for Disaster Protection).
Alongside the Airbel Research and Innovation Lab we provide key lessons for how effective crisis response can be financed and triggered
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This paper and accompanying policy brief detail how the CRW has been used to date, and identifies a number of concrete ways of improving its performance.
Read morePre-arranged financing
Financing approved before crises that is released automatically when agreed triggers are met.
Disaster risk finance diagnostic
An analytical assessment of a country’s disaster risk profile.
Vulnerability
Conditions that increase how severely people or communities are affected by hazards.
Accountability
Being responsible for decisions and resources, listening to affected people, and accepting consequences for actions taken.
Attachment point
The loss level above which a reinsurer begins paying under a reinsurance agreement.
Early warning system
Systems that monitor hazards and share information early, so people can act in time.
