Pandemic
This paper outlines key trends of financial flows toward outbreak response and identifies relevant emerging initiatives.
Read more
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters.
Read more
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters.
Read more
This cross-country synthesis study calculates what the opportunity cost of budget reallocations was during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more
This report looks at key lessons from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) first anticipatory action (AA) pilot for drought in Somalia.
Read more
This research has highlighted the flaws in the current system which is not always able to support response where need is greatest.
Read more
This discussion paper examines the unequal impacts of the pandemic across different groups.
Read more
This paper summarises the different shocks created by the global Covid-19 crisis.
Read moreDisaster risk financing
Financial arrangements made in advance to pay for disaster prevention, response and recovery.
Risk transfer
When disaster risk is shifted to insurers or capital markets.
Covariate shocks
Shocks affecting many households at once where losses are shared across the same community.
Financial Flows
Financial flows refer to the movement of funds for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and response, covering planned and unplanned sources.
Contingent liabilities
Possible financial obligations that only become real if specific future events occur.
International crisis financing system
The network of global organisations funding crisis prevention, preparedness and response.
