Glossary

Disaster risk finance diagnostic

An analytical assessment of a country’s disaster risk profile, financing systems and institutional arrangements used to identify funding gaps for disaster response and recommend strategies to strengthen financial preparedness.

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This technical brief, authored by CERDI and supported by the Centre for Disaster Protection, provides an in-depth analysis of flood risk in Chad.

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This report on Chad provides an in-depth analysis of the country’s social protection and disaster risk financing landscape to inform future programme design.

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This guidance note has been developed to help the increasing number of countries and organisations that are considering or using pre-arranged financing instruments.

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This report on Mali provides an in-depth analysis of the country’s social protection and disaster risk financing landscape to inform future programme design.

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This is the first in a series of diagnostic reports aimed at informing the design and programming of the Centre’s support to the SASPP.

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other key terms

Risk retention

When governments retain and finance disaster costs themselves.

Fragility

High exposure to risk combined with weak capacity to cope, often leading to crisis.

Crisis financing

Funding designed to prevent, prepare for and respond to crises before and after they occur.

Risk transfer

When disaster risk is shifted to insurers or capital markets.

Total crisis financing

Development funding focused mainly on crisis prevention, preparedness and response activities.

Basis risk

The gap between measured indicators and real losses causing payouts to differ from actual damage.